Chapter 3. The syntax and information-structural semantics of negative inversion in English and their implications for the theory of Focus

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Semantics

scholarly journals Die diskoers tussen Job en Cloete struktureelsemanties beskou

Literator ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Buscop
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Semantic View ◽  
Structural Semantics ◽  
Heuristic Guidance

A structural-semantic view of the discourse between Job and Cloete This article examines an aspect of the interaction between linguistics and literature. It is argued that the structural-semantic theory as developed by A.J. Greimas provides a useful approach in guiding the reader towards a realisation of a coherent whole in literary texts. Possibilities for the application and amplification as well as the usefulness in literature are examined, resulting in the identification of isotopies by means of which cohesion can be attained. In structural semantics an isotopy is the backbone of textual analysis – an isotopy being constituted by sememes, compelled by nuclear and textual semes, within the topos alignment of classemes. The Job-texts written by T.T. Cloete in the “transkripsie” and “perifrase” section of Idiolek are used as sample texts. The article attemps to indicate that structural semantics as theory, and especially its amplification as put forward in this article, is able to provide heuristic guidance in tracing the Job/Cloete discourse.

Meaning preservation in Example-based Machine Translation with structural semantics

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 242-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Chai Chua ◽  
Tek Yong Lim ◽  
Lay-Ki Soon ◽  
Enya Kong Tang ◽  
Bali Ranaivo-Malançon
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Structural Semantics

scholarly journals Trajectory-User Linking via Variational AutoEncoder

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhou ◽  
Qiang Gao ◽  
Goce Trajcevski ◽  
Kunpeng Zhang ◽  
Ting Zhong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latent Variables ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Variational Autoencoder ◽  
Hidden States ◽  
Structural Semantics

Trajectory-User Linking (TUL) is an essential task in Geo-tagged social media (GTSM) applications, enabling personalized Point of Interest (POI) recommendation and activity identification. Existing works on mining mobility patterns often model trajectories using Markov Chains (MC) or recurrent neural networks (RNN) -- either assuming independence between non-adjacent locations or following a shallow generation process. However, most of them ignore the fact that human trajectories are often sparse, high-dimensional and may contain embedded hierarchical structures. We tackle the TUL problem with a semi-supervised learning framework, called TULVAE (TUL via Variational AutoEncoder), which learns the human mobility in a neural generative architecture with stochastic latent variables that span hidden states in RNN. TULVAE alleviates the data sparsity problem by leveraging large-scale unlabeled data and represents the hierarchical and structural semantics of trajectories with high-dimensional latent variables. Our experiments demonstrate that TULVAE improves efficiency and linking performance in real GTSM datasets, in comparison to existing methods.

scholarly journals Observations regarding the lexical content at the beginnings of structural semantics

Diacronia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinu Moscal
Keyword(s):  
Second Stage ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
Lexical Field ◽  
Structural Semantics ◽  
Lexical Content ◽  
Lexical Fields

This study focuses on the difficulties noted by a series of German lexicologists at the beginnings of structural semantics as part of their attempt to identify a possible method of organizing the lexis of a language. Their studies, beginning with Jost Trier, focused on the analysis of certain lexical groups called Wortfelder (“lexical fields”), regarded as parts of a completely organized lexis. Their idealistic perception—according to which the whole lexis of a language has an inner organization that needs to be discovered—was confronted with some major issues. Our first observation, based on some examples from the lexis, reveals the fact that certain words cannot be classified as belonging to a specific lexical field. Another observation is related to the semantic continuum of the lexical field, which is compared in some works with the image of a mosaic. These issues are detailed by the argumentations of the German lexicologists, whose research was based on a diachronic analysis of the lexis. Their views were exploited in the second stage of the theorization of lexical fields.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Cognive Strategies of Nomination in Russian and English

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Confectionery Products ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Structural Semantics ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
First Time ◽  
Confectionery Product

At this stage of the development of linguistics, proper nouns are considered to be linguistic units that are not adequately studied, and there is growing interest in proper nouns (or advertising names or commercial nominations), their structural semantics, functional semantics, linguistic culture, and psycholinguistic features, this paper for the first time conducts a comparative study of the material of confectionery product names that sell their Description of the main theoretical provisions on the concept of "ergonym", determine the on-name status of this language unit, consider and describe the names of confectionery products in terms of structure-grammar, lexical semantics and linguistic culture; conduct directional associative experiments to determine the validity of the mind actions of potential consumers on the names of confectionery products and check their informational.

A theory of structural semantics

Lingua ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Keyword(s):  
Structural Semantics

Literary prowess: Creative Writing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Анна Михальская ◽  
Anna Mihal'skaya
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Structural Semantics ◽  
History Of Literature

The textbook for creative literary universities and masters of philological faculties of universities is the first scientifically based (linguistically, literary, methodically) and creatively tested domestic course of literary mastery, developed by the author in the process of teaching (literary mastery in the Union of writers of Russia, rhetorical poetics in the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, in the process creative occupational-training). The methodological basis of the course is the linguo-symbolic concept of literary text as a narrative discourse in conjunction with the system of methods for the allocation of its structural and semantic elements and operational technologies for teaching their creation. The theory of the subject is based on the synthesis of linguistics and literary studies: discourse analysis, text linguistics; hermeneutics, structural semantics; classical and modern rhetoric; stylistics and poetics, theory and history of literature. The methodical complex consists of creative and analytical tasks, texts for analysis, exercises, recommended literature. The course and method have been tested and proved to be effective when working with novice authors. Foreign analogue is widely used in the training of professionals in various fields and specialties of the subject of CREATIVE WRITING. The result of the course - knowledge of the basics of technology of creation of creative verbal texts: artistic, advertising, journalistic, popular science - all those that are built with the help of symbolic symbolic structures. The final competence is defined as verbal artistic creativity (literary creativity based on the knowledge of linguistic, rhetorical, psychological, poetic mechanisms of influence on the reader and interaction with him in the space of the created text, as well as on the possession of the main means of such influence).

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