Showing papers in "Language Sciences in 1997"

TL;DR: The relationship between language and emotions can be viewed from two angles as discussed by the authors, and it is commonly assumed that people, at least on occasions, 'have' emotions, and that 'being emotional' gains its own agency, impacting in a variety of ways on the communicative situation.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the phonological patterns of English nicknames in order to test the validity of the claims which have been made about English phonological preferences in general and specifically in names and favored words.

TL;DR: In this article, a complementary and equally important feature of interviewers' discourse is the use of modal certainty, which can be related to the speakers' aims, their position in the discourse and their affinity with the thesis.

TL;DR: This paper outlines a series of hypotheses about the universal syntax of semantic primitives—hypotheses which are tested in the individual language studies which comprise the rest of the volume.

TL;DR: A study that investigates the character of texts typically considered technical, identifying 42 features of a text considered likely to correlate with its degree of technicality and finding that 31 features in the inventory were meaningful predictors of text technicality when considered independently.

TL;DR: The concept metalinguistique de telementation, which designe le transfert des pensees de l'esprit du locuteur verifié de l''auditeur to l''esprit de l ''auditéur'' as mentioned in this paper, was introduced by Roy Harris (1981) in The Language Myth.

TL;DR: In this article, l'A. examine ici les emplois que des locuteurs anglais, d'une part, and des theoriciens linguistiques, D'autre part, donnent au mot word.

TL;DR: In this article, a subset of the semantic primitives currently proposed in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory (Wierzbicka, 1996) are examined in Cantonese.

TL;DR: The authors analyse diverses strategies utilisees lors de la negociation de pouvoir entre des interlocuteurs dans quatre languages asiatiques (indien, malais, chinois, and japonais).

TL;DR: The question de l'origine du langage tient une place importante dans l'image que donnent d'elles-memes beaucoup de cultures du monde, mais aussi dans la recherche scientifique qui tente de combler le vide fondamental entre les humains and les animaux as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors argue that use of the past tense and progressive aspect, under certain circumstances, represents the speakers' attempts to maintain and regain control of their mental activity in the face of a cognitively difficult situation.

TL;DR: This article found evidence collected from basilectal texts that NSM mental predicates have clear lexical exponents in Hawaii Creole English and that these HCE predicates occur, with minor qualification, in the syntactic configurations predicted by Wierzbicka (1996).

TL;DR: The authors examined the syntax and semantics of six mental predicates (i.e., think, know, want, see, hear and feel) in Japanese exponents ( omou, sit-te iru, -tai/hosii, miru, kiku and kimoti) and found that each primitive predicate has a specific set of syntactic frames in which the primitive meaning is expressed.

TL;DR: The authors argue that Derrida's early texts show that language is essentially imbricated in the world, and that it is produced out of a set of very specific, even 'historical', determinations, even if his conception of such imbrication and determination is philosophically unorthodox, and therefore likely to be mistaken for the positions that he in fact attacks.

TL;DR: The paper highlights the need for combinatorial and portmanteau allolexies to express some combinations, in particular, for many of the combinations involving WHEN/TIME.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether Wierzbicka's hypothesis that the conditional and counterfactual constructions are semantic universals in Japanese can be justified in the case of Japanese language and showed that if-construction is compatible with both condition (if) and temporal interpretation.

TL;DR: The authors analyse les fondements historiques de la relation entre philologie et linguistique, ainsi que des significations associees a leurs denominations aux different periodses du developpement de l'etude du langage comme science.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the implications of the three-dimensional sign proposed by Harris (1990) for general linguistic theory and the philosophy of language, and suggests the study of history as a model for the identification and study of relevant experience.

TL;DR: In this article, an argument against the idea that the phonetic representation and the phonological representation are related to one another by computational transformation is made from the perspective not of cognitive science, but of phenomenology.

TL;DR: This paper examined the maniere in which linguistes define the emplois du terme standard, and illustre ces definitions en s'appuyant sur l'exemple de l'anglais.

TL;DR: Linguistics is a form of philosophy, whether we like it or not; it is that part of philosophy which seeks to elucidate how and where language fits into the general human scheme of things as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors examine le role du linguiste par rapport au langage en se basant sur les conceptions of Roy Harris a propos de trois concepts centraux : loi de la nature, regle et regularite.

TL;DR: The authors examine un type de divergence d'opinions entre experts and profanes which predominate dans la linguistique moderne occidentale : the dispute entre la science linguistiques and le normativisme.

TL;DR: It is argued that the first three exponents of the proposed semantic primitives above, under, inside and on the side are polysemous between a semantically primitive relational sense and a secondary topological sense.

TL;DR: Hopper's arguments reflect the influence of Derrida's philosophical deconstructivism that has had a major impact on many other disciplines ranging from literary criticism to ethnography as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a mouvement transnational destine a promouvoir l'emploi de la langue francaise dans le monde, afin d'ameliorer le statut de la ligneur et de ses locuteurs.

TL;DR: This paper examined the traditional characterisation of the process of verbal derivation in Sinhala and the interaction that takes place between the various components of the grammar, which are involved in this process.

TL;DR: The authors examine le concept d'ecriture en analysant les definitions qu'en donnent les dictionnaires, en essayant de determiner a quel moment on peut parler d'ECriture dans l'histoire and en decrivant les diverses theories de l'eccriture elaborees par les linguistes.

TL;DR: This paper showed that if examples with complements of low lexical content are excluded, occurrences of make largely outnumber those of do. But they did not consider the use of nominalized verbs as complements, and the reasons that might lead a speaker to choose make + complement rather than the cognate simple lexical verb (to make a promise vs. to promise ).