Mental action

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Peacocke
Keyword(s):  
Mental Action

Automatic Mental Action

1880 ◽  
Vol 9 (233supp) ◽  
pp. 3703-3704
Author(s):  
J. M. Long
Keyword(s):  
Mental Action

On the Pathology of Certain Cases of Melancholia Attonita or Acute Dementia

1883 ◽  
Vol 29 (127) ◽  
pp. 355-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Wiglesworth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Action

Since a knowledge of the Physiology of Mind is essential to a clear comprehension of its Pathology, we may fitly introduce a paper purporting to deal with one form of abnormal mental action, with a few considerations concerning mental action in general.

Plotand Event-Driven Functions of Perfect Verbs in a Fiction Text

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Elena A. Bazhenova ◽  
◽  
Ekaterina E. Dymont ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Perfect State ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Inner World

The article examines the role of Russian perfect verbs in text formation. Based on the texts of modern Russian writers (S. Vasilenko, D. Granin, E. Limonov, V. Pelevin, T. Tolstaya, V. Tokareva, L. Ulitskaya), the functions of the verb forms with perfect meaning in the plot organization of a fiction text are considered. The principal attention is paid to the analysis of the functions of 1) regression of the narrative, 2) progress of the narrative with a pause in the external environment or in the inner world of the character, 3) pause in the narrative. Narrative regression is interpreted as a reference to the past, progress as a perspective of the narrative, and pause as a fixation of the state of the environment or the internal state of the character. It has been established that these functions are realized within the framework of a perfect situation as a functional-semantic field. The nucleus of the field is a perfect verb or passive past participles; the periphery of the field is formed by multi-level language units that actualize the perfect meaning in the context. It has been revealed that the perfect situation has a complex semantic structure, in which three components are holistically represented: pre-perfect state, action, and post-perfect state. This structure allows expressing different types of links: between the temporal plans of the text, between the cause of an event and the consequent state of the event, between a mental action and the object of this action. In a fiction text, each component of syncretic perfect semantics can become a basis for the plot situation. It has been shown that plot- and event-driven functions of perfect verbs are determined by the position of the verb in the complex syntactic whole, by interaction with other predicates, by the syntactic structure, and by the lexical meaning of the verb. In particular, it has been established that the function of regression of the narrative is represented by perfect verbs as a part of complex sentences with temporal, causal, and deliberative subordinate clauses. The function of progress of the narrative with a pause in the external environment is performed by perfect verbs inside a complex syntactic whole. This function may also be realized on the border of two complex syntactic wholes. Progress of the narrative with a pause in the inner world of the character is expressed by mental verbs (ponyal, dogadalsya, osoznal, pochuvstvoval, reshil, etc.). A pause in the narrative is typically expressed by passive past participles. The contextual and semantic analysis of perfect situations allows concluding that perfect verbs have an impact on encoding and decoding of the meaning of the fiction text.

scholarly journals Ongoingly redesigning metacognitive questionnaires helping trainees to self-evaluate their translating

Babel ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesc Fernandez ◽  
Marta Arumi Ribas
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Intended Target ◽  
Teacher's Perceptions ◽  
Interpersonal Dimension

This paper presents a study of the redesign of metacognitive questionnaires carried out along a two-part German-Spanish translation course. The study focuses on post-translation questionnaires used by trainees to self-evaluate their translating, as a function of their strategic subcompetence. Post-translation questionnaires were redesigned ongoingly, as needed, in order to improve their effectiveness in meeting the trainees’ evolving needs. This redesign was based on the students’ feedback combined with the teacher’s perceptions, and led to three types of changes. Firstly, questions not optimally meeting the intended target were modified. As the mental action involved in these questions was not specific enough to prevent off-target answers, each was reworded accordingly and occasionally given an interpersonal dimension favouring intermental reflection. Secondly, certain questions were newly designed, so that they included such interpersonal dimension from the very beginning. These also presented the students with open tasks promoting learner autonomy and asked them to justify their answers, thereby enhancing their translational reflection. Thirdly, a group of questions were suppressed from one part of the course to the other, as the mental action involved in each no longer matched the trainees’ increased procedural knowledge.

scholarly journals The Mind’s Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action, by Matthew Soteriou.

Mind ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 125 (498) ◽  
pp. 605-608
Author(s):  
Helen Steward
Keyword(s):  
Mental Action

Mental Overpopulation and Mental Action: Protecting Intentions from Mental Birth Control

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Buckareff
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Causal Role ◽  
Philosophy Of Action ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Explanatory Role ◽  
Mental Actions ◽  
Orthodox View

Many, I suspect most, philosophers of action afford intentions a central role in theorizing about action and its explanation. Furthermore, current orthodoxy in the philosophy of action has it that intentions play a causal role with respect to the etiology and explanation of action. But action theory is not without its heretics. Some philosophers have challenged the orthodox view. In this paper I will examine and critique one such challenge. I will consider David-Hillel Ruben's case against the need for intentions to play a causal role in the etiology and explanation of mental actions. Contra Ruben, I will defend the orthodox view that intentions play an indispensable causal and explanatory role with respect to mental actions.

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