While some poems in the collection may leave the reader pondering their deeper meanings, others offer moments of sheer delight and humor. Lang's wit shines through in his clever wordplay and unexpected twists, adding a touch of lightness to the overall tone. This balance between thought-provoking...
Mary Evelyn, whose 1690 Mundus Muliebris (“Women’s world”) included a “fop-dictionary” devoted to the vocabulary of fashion and cosmetics); some were not unlike the fictional Women’s Words and Their Meanings, in that they focused on “English as it was spoken among and with women” ...
I even started to read the Old Testament as Mike hounded me every day about my name and more meanings. I told him about the namesake of the complex where we lived. He was intrigued about the story of Abraham and his son. “I could never kill my son.” “It’s just a metaphor,”...
Moreover, for most basins, the leading two EOF modes have clear physical meanings, such as ENSO, Indian Ocean Basin Mode, and Atlantic Niño mode. In terms of terrestrial forcings, the Sahel, WAM region, and HOA represent unique North African landscapes, i.e. mainly savanna and grasslands...
Some studies view national and local reform in the context of structural and behavioural logics that legitimise social meanings required for reform and improvement (Lazer et al. 2011; Waldorff 2013; Kooijman et al. 2017), with scholars analysing speeds and directions of radical innovation. ...
Within LLMs, transformers use cartographies of word meanings known as “embeddings,” and apply “attention” to identify which words in the natural language input sequence (the user’s prompt, or the previous parts of the text) are most relevant to predicting the next word. This ability to ...
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Žižek (2014, p 119) offers a succinct account of the Symbolic dimension of the big Other when he states that it is, “the invisible order that structures our experiences of reality, the complex networks of rules and meanings which makes us see what we see the way we see it (and ...
Of particular interest are the distinct meanings the workers attach to different managerial innovations; thus, the reordering of shift arrangements provokes worker response (and union action) that is quite different from the reaction inspired by the introduction of cooperative worker-management teams at ...
Firstly, what Laclau and Mouffe (1985) called “nodal points”, that is, those privileged signifiers that stabilize the meanings of a discursive system by partially unifying such a system: these are those words “to which ‘things’ themselves refer to recognize themselves in their unity” (...