teaist /a superfan of tea, stronger than SOED's: tea-drinker a person who drinks tea, esp. habitually or in large quantities;/chaist /a superfan of tea, closest to (Mandarin) chá/CHA, also with a lovely ring to it in Bulgarian and Russian/superfan /a fanatic not a mere fan/...
Both words and faces are considered special stimuli, with some commonalities in terms of being processed holistically and with similar, potentially overlapping, brain regions involved in the two tasks, with evidence for different lateralizations in symmetric areas of the right (face) and left (word)...
“Language is derived from intentionality and not conversely” (Searle1983, p. 5). “Words are also deeds” (Wittgenstein1958, Part I, § 546), that is, words are charged with wants. See also Wood (2016) on Empson’s intentions (against Wimsatt and Beardsley’s1946“intentional fallacy”...
New York, which in 1950 was number one with a population of around 12 million, will only be the sixth largest city in the world but with an extra 2 million.I: And London?E: London, which was number two, won’t even be in the top ten. Its population in 1950, by the way, was ...
It was connected to the mainland with massive causeways and aqueducts. Upon arrival in 1519 The Spanish were astounded at the masterful engineering of roads, canals, and aqueducts done by the Aztecs Hernan Cortes’s second letter to the king shows this in his statement “considering that they ...
According to the 5-Point Likert Scale used to assess the respondent’s sentiments, the strongest views were denoted using numeric code “1” signifying a “strong agreement” with the statements posed, and numeric code 2 used to represent a “strong disagreement” with the same statements. ...
For example, when a manager engages in some activities that conflict with those of the company, then there is need to put in place stiffer penalties for the offenses and malpractices committed. In certain cases, the management team might reward themselves high amounts of bonuses without ...
The variable number of letters did not reach statistical significance (p = .67), and thus was excluded from the model. SERs, which showed a positive relationship with iconicity, was the variable that explained the largest por- tion of variance in the model (R2 = .04; i.e., 4%). The...
The four string variables were factorially crossed with two replications per cell (with the sin- gle exception that since only one seven-letter word ending with the letter bet was found, the second replication in that cell was substi- tuted by a word ending with the letter hey). Strings...
Table 5. Pearson correlations amongst the five discrete emotions (all ps<0.001) Full size table Following Ferré et al. (2017), we classified the ratings for each emotion into two groups: high level (with an average rating of 3 or more), and low level (an average rating of less than ...