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Some reflections on semantic–pragmatic cycles

2020

Abstract This paper explores novel ways to consider semantic–pragmatic cycles using a dual strategy: an inwards strategy, whereby the distinctive traits of a pragmatic cycle are established, and an outwards strategy, whereby the categories that delimit semantic–pragmatic cycles are described. The result of this exploration is the distinction between “pragmatic cycle”, “replication”, “concomitance” and “paradigmatic increase” as four different yet related processes. In addition, this study integrates Construction Grammar into the description of each process and shows that the study of semantic–pragmatic cycles can benefit from a constructional approach, adopting Traugott and Trousdale’s (201…

Fuzziness, Philosophy, and Medicine

2013

In his Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine, a book that in our view is qualified to be the starting point of a new discourse in the fields of Theoretical Medicine and Philosophy of Medicine, Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh uses two scientific theories that are studied and regarded in many specific sectors of hard and human sciences but not globally well-known in Philosophy of Medicine: Fuzzy Set Theory and Structuralism. This opening contribution briefly discusses those approaches, and introduces the musing, ideas, counterpoints and contributions from many other authors, among them philosophers, logicians, mathematicians and researchers from different and competing disciplines, that constitute t…

Divu valodu salīdzinošā analīze bilingvāli runājošiem: franču un nūfu valodā

2022

Šis darbs sniedz atbildi uz problēmjautājumiem, kas rodas bilingvālajās kopienās visā pasaulē, lai parādītu valodu prakses ietekmi uz runātāja ikdienas dzīvi. Daudzvalodu valstīs, piemēram, Kamerūnā, kur valodu skaits sasniedz 250, bilingvāli runājošie, šajā gadījumā franču-nu'fī valodā runājošie, izjūt savas valodas lietošanas pozitīvu vai negatīvu ietekmi. Minētajā kontekstā bilingvālo prasmju lietošana nepaliek bez ietekmes uz runātāju. Viņi var izjust pozitīvu vai negatīvu kognitīvo ietekmi atkarībā no apgūtajām prasmēm. Ja kompetences līmenis ir ļoti zems, kognitīvai ietekmei ir apvērsuma efekts, ja kompetences līmenis abās valodās ir pietiekošs vai līdzvērtīgs, runātājs izjūt pozitīvu…

Cahiers d'anthropologie sociale (7), Desastres

2011

Presentación: La razón de un rodeo

1981

Un análisis estructuralista presentado por Vidal Beneyto

1981

Reseña sobre el libro "Posibilidades y límites del análisis estructural: una investigación concreta en torno a lenguaje y poesía", que coordina Vidal-Beneyto. Referencia completa: Vidal-Beneyto, José (Ed.) (1981). Posibilidades y límites del análisis estructural: una investigación concreta en torno a lenguaje y poesía. Madrid: Editora Nacional, Cultura y Sociedad.

Vidal Beneyto (Comp.) (1981). Posibilidades y límites del análisis estructural: una investigación concreta en torno a lenguaje y poesía. Madrid: Edit…

1981

Reseña sobre el libro "Posibilidades y límites del análisis estructural: una investigación concreta en torno a lenguaje y poesía", que coordina Vidal-Beneyto. Referencia completa: Vidal-Beneyto, José (Ed.) (1981). Posibilidades y límites del análisis estructural: una investigación concreta en torno a lenguaje y poesía. Madrid: Editora Nacional, Cultura y Sociedad.

Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism

2013

Bas van Fraassen’s recent endorsement of empiricist structuralism is based on a particular approach to representation. He sharply distinguishes between what makes a scientific model M a successful representation of its target T from what makes M a representation of T and not of some other different target T’. van Fraassen maintains that embedment (i.e.: a particular sort of isomorphism which relates structures) gives the answer to the first question while the user’s decision to employ model M to represent T accounts for the representational link. After discussing the rationale for this approach, I defend that indexical constraints like those favoured by van Fraassen cannot be the last word …

Heterogeneous knowledge: Trends in German discourse analysis against an international background

2011

This contribution maps the complex field of discourse analysis in Germany by situating its major currents and putting them in historical perspective. In a first step, it presents the major intellectual sources, such as (post-)structuralism, pragmatism/interactionism as well as hermeneutics, which have served as a backdrop for the establishment of discourse analysis as an interdisciplinary field since the 1980s. In a second step, it takes a closer look at the intellectual conjunctures in the social sciences such as Critical Theory and systems theory before turning to the discourse analytical tendencies that have emerged since the 1980s in the light of Foucault's reception in Germany. Finally…

Explicación teórica y compromisos ontológicos : un modelo estructuralista

2021

En este ensayo me propongo esbozar un modelo de «explicación teórica con compromisos ontológicos». No se pretende que tal modelo tenga aplicación al uso de 'explicación' en la vida cotidiana, y ni siquiera que sea aplicable a todos los contextos científicos, tan sólo que tiene una significación genuina en grandes porciones de las ciencias naturales, particularmente en la física, y más generalmente en aquellas disciplinas que han sido matematizadas más o menos sistemáticamente. Mi tesis general, que voy a tratar de articular en lo que sigue, es simplemente la siguiente: al menos en muchos contextos de la ciencia teórica, la explicación adopta la forma de la inserción de una estructura de dat…