Dissertations / Theses: 'Functionalism'

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Pike, Brian Henry. "Functionalism, qualia and spectrum inversion." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293880.

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Lee, Hong. "Biological Functionalism and Mental Disorder." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1334163116.

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Buckley, N. "Functionalism and the Inverted Spectrum Objection." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380950.

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Hogg, Kelly M. "Unifying University Culture through a Simplified Functionalism." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306501575.

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Figel, Jared T. "Contemporary Functionalism and Aristotle's Theory of Mind." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460400969.

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Gardner, Sheena F. "Parasyntax and the sentential level in axiomatic functionalism." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2877.

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This thesis is presented as a contribution to the St Andrews School of Linguistics, Axiomatic Functionalism, as developed by Mulder and Hervey. It is essentially a piece of Theoretical Linguistics which outlines an approach to the hitherto undeveloped areas of Parasyntax and the Sentential Level in Axiomatic Functionalism. The theoretical arguments are supported by descriptive hypotheses concerning the nature of Spoken English. These descriptions are corpus-based. The conclusion reached by the author is that not only are Parasyntax and the Sentential Level distinct in theory (this is axiomatic), but they are also distinct in their application as regards methodology and description. This conclusion will undoubtedly prove to be controversial in the light of recent developments in Axiomatic Functionalism concerning the Postulates in particular (of which the author was at the time of writing unaware), and in the light of other Functionalist approaches to the nature of intonation and sentences. It is anticipated that this thesis will be of value to those interested in Functionalism as well as those concerned with intonation and the levels of language beyond syntax.

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Prideaux, Simon John. "New Labour old functionalism : the influences of older sociological functionalist ideas from the USA upon 'New' Labour thinking in welfare reform." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415588.

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Morén, Núñez Constanza. "Mitochondrial functionalism in HIV-infected children receiving antiretroviral therapy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/83490.

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It is widely known that HIV and ARV drugs trigger mitochondrial impairment in adults. However, their effects in perinatally-infected children have been poorly explored. For this reason, the main hypothesis of the present Thesis was to demonstrate that mitochondrial abnormalities are present in HIV-infected pediatric patients treated with ARV. It is expected to find mitochondrial alterations in asymptomatic perinatally HIV-infected children. This mitochondrial lesion, manifested in a depletion of the mitochondrial genome, would lead to a reduction of the mitochondrial protein synthesis or to a mitochondrial dysfunction and, as a last resort, compromising the cellular viability. However, it is also possible that the presence of homeostatic mechanisms in mitochondria entails a proper function of some complexes, even in the presence of mitochondrial genome depletion. Rather than a localized mitochondrial alteration in a specific enzymatic activity, it is possible that HIV and ARV cause a diffuse damage in the organelle which may be observed in a general assessment of the respiratory chain. In case of a mitochondrial alteration, either in asymptomatic or symptomatic patients, it would be expected a more evident presentation of mitochondrial toxicity in case of the latter. If our hypothesis of an evidence of mitochondrial toxicity derived from HIV and ARV in children is confirmed, we believe that, once the detrimental agent is withdrawn, a recover of the mitochondrial affectation is possible. Mitochondrial impairment may change depending on the type of HAART regimen, leading us to use mitochondrial parameters as a biomarker or a trail to find the best therapeutic options in the choice of different HAART schedules. In this context, the intensity of mitochondrial impairment over time would be higher in children receiving first generation NRTI which, in turn, have been demonstrated to present a higher mitochondrial toxicity in vitro, than those under second generation NRTI. In order to study and test our hypothesis, the main objectives of the present Thesis are: A) General Objective To test if HIV and ARV mechanisms of mitochondrial toxicity found in adults are present in perinatally HIV-infected children. B) Specific Objectives - Objective 1: To elucidate whether ARV treatment or HIV infection were exerting a mitochondrial toxic effect in asymptomatic perinatally HIV-infected pediatric patients receiving HAART. - Objective 2: To investigate if hypothetic alterations in the mitochondrial genome of asymptomatic HIV-infected children receiving ARV are downstream reflected at transcriptional, translational and functional levels. In case of mitochondrial dysfunction was present, to test whether MRC alterations are focalized or diffuse. - Objective 3: To determine mitochondrial status in lipodystrophic HIV-children and compare them to a group of asymptomatic children and to a group of uninfected controls. - Objective 4: To evaluate whether a 12-month interruption of ARV is able to improve or revert these hypothetic mitochondrial alterations at molecular and/or clinical level. - Objective 5: To compare mitochondrial toxicity derived from different HAART schedules in a longitudinal 2-year follow-up assessment of immunovirological and mitochondrial status under first or second generation NRTI. To elucidate whether those NRTI demonstrated to present high mitochondrial toxicity in vitro present a major toxicity in vivo as well.

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McIntosh, Jillian Scott. "Teleological functionalism, normativity, explanation, and the philosophy of mind." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25111.pdf.

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Priday, Margot Bruce. "Hypothesis of Extended Cognition; Problems with Functionalism and Language." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13643.

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Clark and Chalmers’ theory of Extended Mind is motivated to explain active externalism with functionalist credentials. I will argue that this fails due to the incompleteness of functionalism. Functionalism is incomplete as a theory of mind in three respects. First it fails to differentiate between the myriad of mental states that may be occurring within an organism during some cognitive processing, making functional parity between the internal and external difficult. Second, empirical functionalism typically requires the inputs to and the outputs from the central nervous system to be defined. Empirical functionalism with such a constraint cannot apply those criteria to external phenomena such as notebooks or computers or anything that does not have a central nervous system. Third is the conflicted issue of functionalism’s inability to explain qualia. This third aspect of functionalism requires acknowledgement even though it does not affect Clark and Chalmers’ EM. Clark and Chalmers’ theory specifically excludes consciousness from extended states. Conscious states are not committed to functionalism being complete. If functionalism were unqualifiedly true, then the fact that some external states play some of the functional roles constitutive of mental states would be enough to guarantee that HEC is true. But I will argue that the incompleteness of functionalism suggests that in the case of intentional states, only the necessity, not the sufficiency of these causal roles is indubitable. In which case the burden of proof must come from Clark and Chalmers to show that the external contributors to the cognitive process are indeed cognitive. Clark and Chalmers claim human language as an example of EM. I will argue that human language is a developmental process. Human language fails as an example of Clark and Chalmers’ theory of EM and as such it is not an example of active externalism.

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Grimes, Leigh A. "Wanderings : a study of the image in architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36214.

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Flohil, Jill Caroline. "Retributivism, functionalism, annulment and why consequences do and should matter." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22826.pdf.

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Izak, Michal. "Exploring the cogency of organizational spirituality : functionalism, boundlessness and rationality." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528838.

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Minott, Sandra Simone. "Validation of Parsons' Structural Functionalism Theory Within a Multicultural Human." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3357.

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Shared values and norms are at the core for unifying different cultures socializing or working to fulfill the goals and mission of organizations. Researchers have not examined how employees representing different cultures socialize via shared norms and values in human service companies. The purpose of this ethnography study was to explore the process of 8 culturally different employees working together at a human service organization. Using purposeful sampling, multicultural employees were selected from 4 departments within the human service company. Face-to-face interviews, field notes, questionnaire, and participant observation were the tools for collecting the data. Descriptive coding, value coding, and the Ethnograph software was used to identify themes from the data. The analysis of the data evolved from using the approach of the hermeneutic circle, which consisted of examining the parts, such as activities and the connection to the whole, such as core values. According to the study, most employees engaged in sharing the norms and values of the human service company, ultimately fulfilling the goals or core values. However, 2 out of 8 participants engaged in conflict and had a lack of knowledge about 1 out of 4 core values. Knowledge and compliance to the core values were fundamental ingredients for providing quality services. This study leads to positive social change by providing human service organizations information on compliance to the entire core values of the human service company and knowledge of the complete core values of the human service company.

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Edwards, J. S. "A praise of wider functionalism or for more matter in mind." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381626.

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Hartis, Richard Geoffrey. "Beyond functionalism : a quantitative survey and semiotic reading of Hadrian's Wall." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/332/.

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Hadrian’s Wall is perhaps one of the best studied, but east understood,Roman monuments in Britain. Traditional interpretations have sought to identify one underlying principle to the Wall’s function. Similarly, the Wall’s purpose has often been interpreted as solely functional, with either military or ‘customs barrier’ arguments proposed. However, military theories are at odds with both general Roman practice of the time, which sought to defeat enemies in the field, and the Wall’s generally low level of soldiery per kilometre. Customs barrier arguments cannot account for the seemingly illogical placement of structures along the line of the Wall. Furthermore, both these interpretations are connected to a broader dialogue between the Victorian era, which saw the rise of Wall-scholarship, and the modern world which effectively excluded the Roman context within which the Wall was constructed. It is the question of the Wall’s intent and purpose, as well as the structure’s place in the wider Roman world, that this thesis explores. This necessitates an innovative combination of techniques including historiography, theory, quantitative survey and modelling. A theoretical standpoint is adopted that considers the construction from a symbolic perspective as an explicit means for understanding the original purpose of the Wall. Quantitative survey is used to reveal the full extent of the structure’s symbolic ower, the results of which can also evaluate dominant functional theories. Importantly, in emphasising theory and the Roman context alongside traditional functional models, this thesis reconnects the Wall to its original context within the Roman world. This research aims to stimulate debate on both the purpose of the Wall and its place in the wider Roman world, whilst also creating a framework for using quantitative theory to assess symbolic potential.

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Edwards, James Stephen. "In praise of wider functionalism or for more matter in mind." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19717.

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The premiss of this thesis is naturalism: viz., that psychological facts, whilst not reducible to, are determined by, physical facts. Pace Davidson's anomalism of the mental, the Author argues that token-token psycho-physical identity presupposes that the inferential inter-relations between psychological states are projectably mirrored by physical dispositional relations between those states. The Author aims to regiment our folk-psychological explanations because, he argues, we have warrant to apply the conceptual contents of our self-applied indices to the states so indexed, rather than treating those conceptual contents merely as indices of internal states. That warrant arises from the determinate conceptual content of our home language - pace the well-known arguments of Quine, Putnam and Davidson. The Author also aims to show that only a functional system wide enough to include the objects which we perceive and manipulate can generate those conceptual contents, not a narrow functional system which terminates at or before the bodily envelope. Field's subjective semantics for classical logic are used to show that narrow functionalism cannot account for the sense of 'exists', nor, adapting work of Hintikka and Rantala, for our quantifier rules, and narrow functionalism leads to brute psycho-physical correlations between sensational properties and inner physical states. Fodor's formality condition does not preclude mental operations having access to the semantic contents of mental states. And the Author argues for a wider functionalism which is blind to the particular identities and differences of res, but is not blind to their observable properties. The Author develops an account of quantifying into attitudes and quasi-binding variables in content clauses without inducing transparency, thus enabling individual attitudes to be linked up and mutually oriented in action explaining complexes. Such quantification is extensionally defined so as to fit an otherwise standard truth definition. (Kripke's puzzle about Pierre's beliefs is thereby solved.) The Author shows how any individual episode in a person's psychological history can be treated narrowly, as an hallucination, without explanatory loss, but provided enough of his episodes are explained widely, quantifying over res, sufficiently to account for the conceptual contents of all episodes.

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Hosseini, Sardar. "Hume's Functionalistic Theory of the Self." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24927.

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The main claim of this dissertation is that Hume’s theory of the self can be interpreted in terms of a causal or functional theory of mind. It is a thesis about Hume’s identification of mental particulars―impressions and ideas―in terms of the kind of roles that each plays in the cognitive system that it is a member of. The true Humean idea of the human mind is to understand it as a system of different mental states and processes, which are linked together by the relation of cause and effect. Functionalism as such can be construed as both teleo-functionalism and psycho-functionalism. The former is rooted in his teleological characterization of the mind according to which the bundle of perceptions persists over time by maintaining functional continuity, whereas the main source of Hume’s psycho-functionalism lies in his Representational Theory of Mind. Hume, however, Hume expresses his strong dissatisfaction with his earlier treatment of the topic, and confesses that he now finds an inconsistency in his original account. He does not make clear in his recantation what he finds problematic in his earlier account. And although more than a dozen interpretations have been suggested, no consensus as to what Hume’s worry is has emerged. I claim that Hume’s functionalism, as presented in the main body of the Treatise, stores a problem for him and when he arrives at the Appendix he realises the problem and confesses that he is unable to resolve it. The problem that leads to the inconsistency has two main possible sources: First, the principles of constancy and coherence may successfully account for the arising belief in the idea of the continued and distinct existence of external objects and the idea of personal identity, but they fail to explain our belief in other minds (selves). Second, Hume’s functionalism is circular because it presupposes personal identity. The central idea is that if Hume is right to say that something like functional continuity would suffice for persons to persist through time, then he must show that we can have a complete account of how one’s mental states produce the idea of a persisting self without making assumption about the identity condition of their subject or bearer. And of course, psycho-functionalism, including Hume’s, identifies a mental state in terms of its functional relations to other mental states that are the states of the same person. This is straightforwardly circular.

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Sullivan, Michelle Thibault. "Communicative functions of echolalia in children with autism : assessment and treatment /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3069220.

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Herold, Marina. "The use of word prediction as a tool to accelerate the typing speed and increase the spelling accuracy of primary school children with spelling difficulties." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09232004-105149.

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Dickins, James. "Extended axiomatic functionalism : a contrastive assessment with application to aspects of Arabic." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/900.

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Brzeski, Marina Kateri Carleton University Dissertation Journalism and Communication. "The communicative ethos: from epistemology to functionalism - shifting discursive practices in museology." Ottawa, 1994.

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Tanaka, Aiji. "Legitimacy in a maturing democracy : the impact of political culture and system performance on system support in Japan /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40194514.html.

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Gao, Hua. "A cognitive-functional investigation of questions in Chinese." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3473790X.

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Slaven, Amber N. "The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in Anime." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1198.

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In this thesis, I examine the relationship between folk tales and Japanese animation, or anime. In spite of the popular association between animation and adolescence, animated television series and films have a dynamic and compelling relationship with various age groups and nationalities. Additionally, anime and animation draw liberally from a number of folk tale traditions. Consequently, in this essay, anime is understood as a global phenomenon that draws on international cultural elements and is consumed in several international markets. Before entering an analysis of the use of folk tales in anime, a history of animation and the place of anime within a Japanese and global matrix is provided. This history not only looks at the development of anime, its connection to Western cinema and animation studios, but also its connection to other Japanese artistic genres, such as manga. Once this foundation is established, it is possible to connect anime with folk tale scholarship in chapter two. This chapter explores this connection in three ways, namely similar content, structure and function. Chapter three builds on the analysis in the preceding chapter and examines the ways anime, as a visual, televised, episodic series, builds on and alters the folk tale tradition. This is primarily explored through the use of visual storytelling techniques and the proliferation of advanced technology. Additionally, this chapter addresses a major point made against the use of folk tales in mass media, specifically the loss of variation. The final chapter concludes and summarizes the ideas, and analysis throughout the thesis. It is in this final chapter that suggestions for further research can be found. This thesis looks not only at the use of folk tales and folk tale characteristics in new media, such as anime, but how these new media contribute to and help to pass on folk tale traditions. Ultimately, this paper suggests anime is an example of a contemporary form of tale telling, which draws on traditional elements as well as catering to a contemporary audience.

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Ho, Miu-chun Michelle. "The application of systemic functional linguistics to teaching individual brief narrative speaking to junior secondary students Xi tong gong neng yu yan xue zai chu zhong ji shi duan jiang jiao xue de ying yong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37520350.

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Wong, Lai-wing. "The application of systemic functional linguistics to the teaching of evaluative writing at matriculation level Xi tong gong neng yu yan xue zai yu ke ping lun xie zuo jiao xue de ying yong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37609531.

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Chu, Wan-kam. "An evaluation of the genre approach to prose writing in matriculation level Chinese literature = Wen lei gong neng jiao xue fa yu yu ke Zhongguo wen xue ke san wen chuang zuo zhi ying yong ji xian zhi." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4004001X.

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Chen, Hui-Min. "A critique on scientific rationality in the production of architecture." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23114.

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Reardon, Mark Edward. "The public realm in the contemporary city." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23183.

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Tucker, William Bird. "Deduction, induction, and abduction." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24130.

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McLendon, Michael Sean. "Peripheral pursuits : Pershing Point, une autre monde." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24165.

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Neveu, Marc J. "Architecture-as, an ethics of function." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31028.

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Carlo Lodoli (1690--1761), architect, storyteller, and generally caustic individual, was a friar at San Francesco della Vigna in Venice, where he offered non-professional lessons in architecture. In his garden, he had collected a series of architectural fragments for use in his dialogues with students. He would use the fragments as examples of good and bad architecture to allow for his peripatetic teachings. These lessons, described by his faithful student Andrea Memmo as talking in images were sweeping, often ethical. As the Socratic Lodoli did not commit to text any formal treatise, we must look to his student's interpretations and various built projects. It is within these traces we begin to discover Lodoli's proposal for a non-reductive functional architecture based upon the imagination. By looking into this performing aspect of function we may begin to realize an architecture that both invites and constitutes essential meaning.

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Serratrice, Ludovica. "The emergence of functional categories in bilingual first language acquisition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17548.

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This thesis is a case study on the emergence of functional categories in bilingual first language acquisition. The investigation focuses on the transition from one-word to multiword utterances and the shaping of functional projections of Determiner, Agreement and Tense and their associated formal features. The empirical basis of this work is a corpus of thirty-nine videorecorded observations of Carlo, an English-Italian bilingual child, during free-play sessions with an adult. Data was collected separately for English and Italian for a period of fifteen months from when the child was 1;10 until he was 3;1, and was then transcribed in CHAT format. Four interrelated lines of enquiry inform the analysis presented here. The principal research question concerns the acquisitional strategies adopted by C. in these early stages of development in the two languages. A bilingual child is the closest one can get to a perfect matched pair where a number of variables such as socio-cognitive development, socio-economic status, parents' education, etc. are eliminated, and the two main variables to be investigated are the child's two input languages. This is an ideal situation in which the respective roles of general acquisitional strategies and language particular ones can be teased apart. An analysis of the emergence of the morphosyntactic correlates of Determiner, Agreement and Tense categories in English and Italian reveals a discrepancy between the two languages in the age of acquisition, rate of acquisition and in the language-specific strategies the child adopts. The observation of a significant difference in C.'s acquisitional strategies in English and Italian leads us to the second and third research questions: the way in which the emergence of functional categories differs between the two languages, and the reasons why this should be the case. The most obvious difference is the extent to which morphological correlates of functional categories emerge in the child's speech. In Italian, verbal and nominal morphology emerges earlier than in English and, at least in the nominal system, there is evidence that an Agreement category is part of the child's grammar. In English, verbal morphology is virtually non-existent by the end of the period of observation, and there is no substantial evidence that either Agreement or Tense are realised. Lexically-specific, item-based learning plays a substantial role in both languages, but in Italian there is some evidence that a number of grammatical contrasts are becoming productive by age 3;0, albeit some of them are still limited to a small number of lexical items. Two reasons were identified for the observed differences in the emergence of Determiner, Agreement and Tense in English and Italian: a typological reason, and an environmental reason. The former concerns the richness of Italian morphology, where grammatical contrasts are transparently marked both on nominal and verbal paradigms, as opposed to the relative poverty of English morphology where such contrasts correlate less obviously ans systematically with morphophonological markers. The latter reason concerns the very different input conditions in which C. is exposed to Italian and English: Italian is the home language spoken to him by his family and his babsysitters, while he is addressed in English by the staff at the nursery where one adult is in charge of several children and cannot engage in the one-to-one interaction which is typical of the dyadic situation in which C. finds himself at home. The differences observed in the lead-lag pattern between C.'s Italian and his English also provide sufficient evidence to address the fourth research question concerning the separate developement of the two languages. The analysis of the data did not reveal any systematic interferences from one language to the other. On the contrary there is evidence that C. is sensitive to the different morphosyntactic cues of his two input languages, and that he can treat the two as independent, self-contained problem spaces.

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Buono, Roger. "Tipologia e uso dos pronomes independentes na língua lakota." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-09042018-142640/.

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O lakota é uma língua do tipo head-marking falada no centro dos Estados Unidos, principalmente nos estados de Dakota do Norte e Dakota do Sul. O presente trabalho visa analisar e demonstrar um aspecto da língua ainda pouco explorado: a morfologia da classe de palavras tradicionalmente conhecida como pronome. Há nesta língua evidências de que tal classe é composta de uma raiz verbal precedida por morfemas pessoais, os mesmos usados nos verbos regulares, e seu uso dentro de uma sentença é similar ao da clivagem. Da mesma forma que os pronomes pessoais, os substantivos, os números e os pronomes interrogativos também podem receber os mesmos morfemas em determinados contextos e, assim, exercer função de núcleo do predicado. O modelo teórico adotado para a análise da língua é a Gramatica de Papel e Referência (Van Valin & Lapolla, 1998), um modelo funcionalista que busca compreender a manifestação de estruturas gramaticais levando em consideração seus aspectos semânticos e pragmáticos. Suas principais motivações são como desenvolver um modelo teórico baseando-se em línguas de tipologias diversas, especialmente aquelas de estruturas diferentes das do inglês ou de outras línguas europeias e de que modo a interação entre sintaxe, semântica e pragmática pode ser melhor descrita em sistemas linguísticos diferentes. A metodologia consiste em extrair e analisar as sentenças pertinentes de duas das maiores obras em língua lakota atualmente disponíveis: os livros Dakota Texts (Deloria, 1932) e New Lakota Dictionary (Ullrich, 2008). As sentenças serão analisadas de acordo com sua estrutura morfológica e sintática, bem como pelo uso que é feito das ocorrências. Além disso, será necessário apresentar também o uso das marcas de pessoa nos verbos, em especial aqueles usados na identificação e categorização de entidades, a fim de estabelecer paralelos entre as duas ocorrências.
Lakota is a head-marking language, spoken in the Midwest Region of the United States, mainly in the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. This work aims to analyze and demonstrate one aspect of the language that has been little explored: the morphology of the part of speech traditionally known as independent pronoun. In this language, there is evidence that such part of speech is composed of a verbal root preceded by personal morphemes, the same ones used in regular verbs, and its usage within a sentence is similar to that of the cleft sentence. As well as personal pronouns, nouns, numbers and interrogative pronouns may also have the same morphemes in certain contexts and, then, are able to perform the function of core of the predicate. The theoretical model adopted to analyze the language is Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin & Lapolla, 1998), a functionalist model that seeks to understand the manifestation of grammatical structures, considering their semantic and pragmatic aspects. Its main motivations are how to develop a theoretical model based on languages of different typologies, especially those whose structures are different from the English ones and other European languages, and how syntax, semantics and pragmatics can best be described in different linguistic systems. The methodology consists of extracting and analyzing relevant sentences from two of the greatest works in Lakota language that are currently available: Dakota Texts (Deloria, 1932) and New Lakota Dictionary (Ullrich, 2008). The sentences will be analyzed according to their morphological and syntactic structures, as well as the usage made of the occurrences. In addition, it is also necessary to present the usage of personal marks in verbs, especially those used in the identification and categorization of entities, in order to draw parallels between the two occurrences.

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Brdíčková, Jitka. "Marketing památek funkcionalismu se zaměřením na využití v cestovním ruchu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76417.

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The aim of this thesis is to suggest an efficient marketing strategy for the use of functionalist sights as part of national heritage. This architecture from the first half of the 20th century has a large potential for both local inhabitants and tourists. The final suggestions are based on analysis and survey. The main solution of the problem is to improve marketing activities and communication with the potential tourists.

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Tu, Chia-Lin. "The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?" OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/125.

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Mental causation is with us all the time. Being a table is different from being a human---although we are composed of physical particles, we have understanding, reason, or perception, which are able to make a difference in the physical world. In this dissertation, I have detail discussions of contemporary substance dualism, the mind-brain identity theory, and Jaegwon Kim's functionalism, and thus conclude that none of them can provide an appropriate account to the problem of mental causation. By distinguishing the mind from the body, substance dualists face the pairing problem: How does this particular mind unite with this particular body and thus interact? With the pairing problem, more and more philosophers accept physicalism. However, it is surprising that the problem of mental causation arises again from the heart of physicalism. It means that accepting physicalist ontology does not make this problem go away. On the contrary, basic physical assumptions can even be seen as the source of the current difficulties with mental causation. My preferred idea is that mental properties emerge from physical properties, and both of them together make an occurrence to cause an effect. Emergence makes mental causation autonomous and also avoids epiphenomenalism.

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Kicha, Lamessa Hatau. "Regional Integration in the HOA : A Critical Reassessment of Neo Functionalism and Intergovernmentalism." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193940.

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Bowen, Connor C. "Global Consciousness: A Functionalist Neurophilosophical Perspective." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2198.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore a thought-provoking consequence of the functionalist theory of mind. Given the current organizational structure of Earth and field theories of consciousness in neuroscience, Earth is probably conscious. The argument is explored through an examination of the current organizational structure of Earth and field theories of consciousness in neuroscience, which leads to the conclusion that Earth is conscious. Various theories of mind have been proposed by neuroscientists and philosophers alike in an attempt to qualify what consciousness is and what provides the basis for consciousness to occur. Support, in the form of data and information, for this thesis was found through reviews of philosophic and neuroscientific literature. Using a functionalist argument and field theories of consciousness, I argue for the possibility of Earth’s consciousness due to its organization. Based on the likelihood of human consciousness being spatially distributed, I illustrate how Earth’s organization is sufficiently similar. However, there is controversy surrounding functionalist theories of mind. This is detailed with Ned Block’s (1978) objection to functionalism, the Chinese Nation thought experiment. I place this objection in conversation with Paul and Patricia Churchland’s (1981) work on inverted qualia, absent qualia, and the method to identify systems with and without qualia. A further objection to my conclusion is explored with Kammerer’s (2015) Sophisticated Anti-Nesting Principle is addressed. Finally, this thesis draws some inspiration from Eric Schwitzgebel’s (2014) paper “If Materialism is True, the United States is Probably Conscious,” but the conclusion is projected to a larger scale, resulting in implications for morality, politics, and theories of mind.

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Bynum, James Jordan III. "An architectural theory for a centerless world." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24014.

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Gao, Hua, and 高華. "A cognitive-functional investigation of questions in Chinese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3473790X.

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Yzurdiaga, Katherine P. "Reconsidering Firmitas: Durability as an Integral Function of the Sustainably Built Environment." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/111.

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Architecture is an inherently functional art – buildings have functions, some more vital than others, beyond the objective of sheer aesthetic appeal. Yet at the same time, aesthetic appeal is an integral part of the human experience that many agree is vital to sustainability objectives, including those of the built environment. Ideally, a building would be able to embody and honor both principles, both form and function, but some contend that in the current architectural climate, the emphasis on beauty has surpassed the importance placed on functionality. This discussion is particularly relevant to sustainability in the built environment: Sustainability as a function, some argue, is often compromised or sacrificed for the sake of the vision of the architect, and faddish concepts of beauty. This, many contend, results in the commodification of our buildings, and quite possibly of sustainability as well. In this thesis, I argue that we can avoid this outcome by employing site-specific and culturally informed design principles, knowledge of sensory perception shaped by the social sciences, and spatially flexible design principles to create architecture that inspires us, roots us, and lasts for multiple generations. Ultimately, this is the core function of a sustainable approach to design – taking into account the entire lifecycle of a product. A new, loose functionalist approach that stresses durability, and is informed by a multidisciplinary approach involving both the humanities and social sciences, could be the key to overcoming the quick obsolescence of styles in a consumptive, aesthetically driven society.

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Popescu, Florentina C. "Four Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Thinkers on the Truthfulness of Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342103775.

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Anstey, Matthew Philip. "The linguistic description and analysis of 2 Samuel 11-12 from the perspective of functional grammar in the tradition of Simon Dik." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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COSTA, Luiz Carlos. "Análise linguística de textos literários em livros didáticos do ensino fundamental utilizados na educação de jovens e adultos (EJA)." www.teses.ufc.br, 2015. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/15105.

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COSTA, Luiz Carlos. Análise linguística de textos literários em livros didáticos do ensino fundamental utilizados na educação de jovens e adultos (EJA). 2015. 125f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras – Mestrado Profissional em Letras (PROFLETRAS), Fortaleza (CE), 2015.
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This dissertation aims to make a critical and purposeful analysis of linguistic analysis questions in the context of literary texts in the Portuguese textbook called Caminhar e Transformar, which is used by students in Finals Years of the Elementary School in Youth and Adult Education (2nd Segment ), approved by the National Program of Didactic Book EJA 2014 and currently adopted in public schools in Fortaleza - Ceará. The analysis is performed based on functionalist assumptions and under the guidelines of official documents of the Brazilian Education (PCN: Secondary School, Curriculum Proposal for the EJA EF-2nd segment, PNLD-EJA). It uses the distinction proposed by Halliday, McIntosh and Strevens (1974) between the three types of education or language approach, namely, descriptive, prescriptive and productive approach. It also considers reflections guided by theoretical assumptions of linguistic Functionalism and Text Linguistics on grammar teaching which are present in Neves (2011, 2013), Antunes (2003, 2007, 2014), Nogueira (2010) and Travaglia ( 2001), and the meaning of the practice of linguistic analysis based on authors such as Geraldi (1997) and Bezerra and Reinaldo (2014). The corpus of analysis of this study consisted of questions of the Portuguese book that bring together two essential characteristics: address a linguistic aspect and using a literary text. After a quantitative and qualitative analysis, it was found that in the questions of linguistic analysis in the context of literary texts, there is a predominance of descriptive approach manifested by an emphasis on identification exercises and classification of language units (grammatical nomenclature) with consequent lack of coordination between linguistic phenomena and specifically literary texts, which features a conservative trend (Traditional) in the study of mother tongue. Along the qualitative analysis of the book activities, we suggest possible approaches that articulate language resources used in literary texts and the construction of the senses and effects.
Este trabalho tem o objetivo de proceder a uma análise crítica e propositiva de questões de análise linguística no contexto de textos literários do livro didático de Língua Portuguesa da coleção Caminhar e Transformar destinado aos Anos Finais do Ensino Fundamental da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (2º Segmento), aprovado pelo Programa Nacional do Livro do Didático EJA 2014 e atualmente adotado nas escolas públicas municipais de Fortaleza – Ceará. A análise é realizada com base em pressupostos funcionalistas e à luz dos documentos oficiais da Educação Brasileira (PCN: Ensino Fundamental II, Proposta Curricular para a EJA EF-2º Segmento, PNLD-EJA). Utiliza-se a distinção proposta por Halliday, McIntosh e Strevens (1974) entre os três tipos de ensino ou abordagem da língua, a saber: abordagem descritiva, prescritiva e produtiva. Consideram-se, ainda, as reflexões orientadas por pressupostos teóricos do Funcionalismo linguístico e da Linguística do Texto sobre o ensino de gramática presentes em Neves (2011, 2013), Antunes (2003, 2007, 2014), Nogueira (2010) e Travaglia (2001), bem como o sentido da prática de análise linguística com base em autores como Geraldi (1997) e Bezerra e Reinaldo (2014). O corpus de análise deste estudo foi constituído por 40 questões do livro de Língua Portuguesa da coleção Caminhar e Transformar que reúnem duas características essenciais: abordam um aspecto linguístico e utilizam um texto literário. Após uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa, constatou-se que, nas questões de análise linguística em contexto de textos literários, há a predominância da abordagem descritiva que se manifesta pela ênfase em exercícios de identificação e classificação das unidades da língua (nomenclatura gramatical) com consequente falta de articulação entre os fenômenos linguísticos e os textos especificamente literários, o que caracteriza uma tendência conservadora (tradicional) no estudo da Língua Materna. Ao longo da análise qualitativa dessas atividades do livro, sugerimos possíveis abordagens que articulem os recursos linguísticos nos textos literários utilizados e a construção dos sentidos e efeitos.

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Cheung, Kwok Tung. "A critical evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's proper functionalism : from theory of knowledge to belief." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2001. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/309.

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SMITH, JOHN-CHRISTIAN. "COMMONSENSE FACULTY PSYCHOLOGY: REIDIAN FOUNDATIONS FOR COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE SCIENCE (FUNCTIONALISM, INTENTIONALITY, MODULARITY, MIND, REPRESENTATION)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188133.

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This work locates the historical and conceptual foundations of cognitive science in the "commonsense" psychology of the philosopher Thomas Reid. I begin with Reid's attack on his rationalist and empiricist competitors of the 17th and 18th centuries. I then present his positive theory as a sophisticated faculty psychology appealing to innateness of mental structure. Reidian psychological faculties are equally trustworthy, causally independent mental powers, and I argue that they share nine distinct properties. This distinguishes Reidian 'intentionalism' from idealist 'representationalism,' which derive cognitive content either from the inherited structure of faculties of from the occurrent structure of sensory activity. Next, I turn to consciousness and reflection for a contemporary Reidian response to traditional phenomenology. Unlike reflection, faculties of reason and remembrance are not causally mediated by consciousness. My interpretation of Reid is that 'Humean causation' of individual faculty structure accounts only for 'natural intentionality,' while 'efficient causation' of faculty interrelations accounts for cognitive 'personal intentionality.' I then proceed by adopting a form of computational description for reconstructing this view as a computational theory of mind. I contrast functional analyses in explanations of some capacities with computational and componential analyses in explanations of other, intentional capacities, in which some processes must be taken to semantically encode and govern the roles of others. This step reconstructs the Reidian notion of intentional operations as requiring an explanation of component faculties and their representation-governed interactions. I argue that properties of faculties delimiting these interactions under Reid's theory parallel those in Fodor's (1983) essay on the "modularity of mind," although the reasons given for individual criteria are often very different. Fodor also proposes a trichotomous mental structure, but I find that a third level of "central systems" is a myth engendered by causal information theory. Such an analysis cannot capture generalizations over the internal representation of semantic roles that determines the character of faculty relations. This requirement for any computational account of cognition is precisely the motivation for the reconstructed Reidian theory. Thus, it comports more favorably with the explanatory program constitutive of a computational cognitive science.

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Kaya, Utku. "An Extended Functionalist Approach To Memetics." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611482/index.pdf.

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Memetics is a Darwinian approach to evolution of culture proposed in late 1970s. This thesis proposes an approach to Memetics, which is an effort to overcome some of the problems involved. It is argued in this thesis that units of cultural evolution are functional abstraction of physical reality and are realized within the boundaries of our cognitive processes. The boundaries of human cognitive processes are defined by Clark and Chalmers (1998) in their extended cognition hypothesis according to which, human cognition is understood as a part of the cultural environment. Therefore human cognition and cultural environment can best be understood by studying them together. As for identifying these units, an extended functionalist approach has been proposed and an empirical cultural transmission study has been conducted and explored in the thesis.

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Dresdner, C. Jorge D. "The structuralist theory of inflation and structural inflation in Chile, 1950-1972 the lagging food hypothesis revisited /." Uppsala : Stockholm : Academiae Ubsaliensis ; Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23613795.html.

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Tavel, Jose Enrique. "A theory of architecture based on the synthesis of bricolage and linguistic devices." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21742.

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