A language can be defined as an infinite set of well-formed sentences.As we have seen,there is no limit to the number of sentences in a language.A grammar is a formal device with a finite set of rules that generates the sentences in the language.This notion of generation is similar to...
They determined that the inventory of sounds in a language could be analyzed in terms of a series of contrasts. Thus in English the sounds /p/ and /b/ represent distinctphoneticsbecause there are cases (minimal pairs) where the contrast between the two is the only difference between two ...
he suddenly found himself confronted with the power of discourse. As a response to a journalist’s question on whether he believed US intelligence agencies’ accusations that Russia was meddling in United States’ Presidential elections, Trump replied: “[President Putin] just said...
While structuralism historically (in Europe) is a linguistic phenomenon, and it would seem reasonable that structuralist criticism would then be linguistic in its nature, this is too simple an assumption. Structuralism is about meaning, not just about form, as linguistics is about meaning. ...
as production of commodities by means of commodities. This view highlights Sraffa's structuralism since a distinctive feature of the latter is to consider collections of elements as wholes 'subordinated to laws', in terms of which 'the structure qua whole or system is defined' (Piaget, 1971)....
4. the binary opposition (structuralism) never a simple structure relation: always a relation of POWER, one term in a position of dominance with regard to the other. The dominance of one over the other (priority/privilege) NOT arises "naturally" out of the relationship, but PRODUCED in the...
References: 1 reference open in new window Articles that cite this article?Document Type: Research Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.6.2.16sin Publication date: January 1, 1994 More about this publication? International Journal of Translation Studies ...
Inhisbook,hedefinedlanguageas“apurelyhumanandnon-instinctivemethodofcommunicatingideas,emotionsanddesiresbymeansofasystemofvoluntarilyproducedsymbols.”Sapir‟sbasicviewsonrelationshipbetweenlanguage,raceandcultureare:race,languageandculturearenotevenlydistributed;thehistoryoflanguageandculturecannotbeaccountedforinterm...
The answer to the above question in the pioneering times of modern philosophy of science was very simple: A theory is a set of statements made within a given conceptual framework; more precisely, it is just an axiom system. This answer provides a precise explication of postulate (1), and ...
IntimacyThis essay critically considers the issue of natural kind essentialism. More specifically, the essay critically probes the philosophical use of chemical examples to support realism about natural kinds. My simple contention is that the natural kind debate can be understood in terms of two ...