scholarly journals The Semantic Structure of Some Biblical Hebrew Verbs denoting Mental Activity

1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37,143
Author(s):  
Isaku Matsuda
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Biblical Hebrew Verbs ◽  
Hebrew Verbs

scholarly journals The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitzhaq Feder
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Near East ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Embodiment Theory

This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure—even of seemingly abstract concepts—is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of purity terms reveals that all of them can be related to a concrete sense pertaining to radiance (brilliance, brightness, shininess). The article then traces the semantic development of purity terms in distinct experiential contexts and shows how semantic analysis can elucidate the inner logic of fundamental religious concepts.

A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill T. Arnold ◽  
John H. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew

A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill T. Arnold ◽  
John H. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew

Pleasure as a Sign of Efficacy of Mental Activity

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Cabanac ◽  
Chantal Pouliot ◽  
James Everett
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Macintosh Computer ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Cognitive Efficiency ◽  
Sensory Pleasure ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mental Tasks

Previous work has shown that sensory pleasure is both the motor and the sign of optimal behaviors aimed at physiological ends. From an evolutionary psychology point of view it may be postulated that mental pleasure evolved from sensory pleasure. Accordingly, the present work tested empirically the hypothesis that pleasure signals efficacious mental activity. In Experiment 1, ten subjects played video-golf on a Macintosh computer. After each hole they were invited to rate their pleasure or displeasure on a magnitude estimation scale. Their ratings of pleasure correlated negatively with the difference par minus performance, i.e., the better the performance the greater the pleasure reported. In Experiments 2 and 3, the pleasure of reading poems was correlated with comprehension, both rated by two groups of subjects, science students and arts students. In the majority of science students pleasure was significantly correlated with comprehension. Only one arts student showed this relationship; this result suggests that the proposed relationship between pleasure and cognitive efficiency is not tautological. Globally, the results support the hypothesis that pleasure is aroused by the same mechanisms, and follows the same laws, in physiological and cognitive mental tasks and also leads to the optimization of performance.

Semantic Structure and Episodic Context: The Analogy Between LSA and TCM

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc W. Howard ◽  
Aditya V. Datey ◽  
Hong-Liang Gai
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Structure
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