Journal articles: 'Interpretation and construction'

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Thomas, H. Randolph, Gary R. Smith, and Robert E. Mellott. "Interpretation of Construction Contracts." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 120, no. 2 (June 1994): 321–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9364(1994)120:2(321).

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Raffy, Clémentine, Marta Donazzan, and Klaus Von Heusinger. "syntax and semantics of laisser in causative constructions." Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10, no. 4 (March 1, 2024): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.320.

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The French verb laisser (‘to let’) allows for two different syntactic constructions, an Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) construction and a Faire-Infinitive (FI) construction with a postverbal Causee, and for two different interpretations, authorize and not-intervene. According to previous studies (e.g. Kayne 1975), constructions are related to interpretations: the ECM can express intentionality, the FI cannot. In this paper, we explore a different hypothesis: the ECM construction is underspecified and allows for both interpretations, while the FI is restricted to the not-intervening interpretation. We provide empirical evidence from three distinct forced choice tasks in which participants had to match constructions and interpretations. The results reveal that, contrary to both early observations and our initial hypothesis, both constructions may allow for both interpretations, and variation depends less on the syntactic configuration than on semantic and pragmatic factors, namely on the lexical inferences triggered by the embedded verb and the authority relation between Causer and Causee expressed in the contexts.

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Ambridge, Ben, Claire H. Noble, and Elena V. M. Lieven. "The semantics of the transitive causative construction: Evidence from a forced-choice pointing study with adults and children." Cognitive Linguistics 25, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 293–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2014-0012.

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AbstractAdults and children aged 3;0–3;6 were presented with ungrammatical NVN uses of intransitive-only verbs (e.g., *Bob laughed Wendy) and asked – by means of a forced-choice pointing task – to select either a causal construction-meaning interpretation (e.g., ‘Bob made Wendy laugh’) or a non-causal sentence-repair interpretation (e.g., ‘Bob laughed at Wendy’). Both age groups chose casual construction-meaning interpretations on at least 82% of trials, regardless of (a) verb frequency and (b) the construction used for grammatical control/filler trials (transitive – e.g., Bob moved Wendy – or intransitive – e.g., Wendy moved). These findings constitute support for cognitive linguistic approaches under which verb argument structure constructions have meanings in and of themselves and – further – suggest that construction meaning is sufficiently powerful as to overrule verb meaning when the two conflict.

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Bergmann, Martin A. "Reik's Confession: Construction or Interpretation." Psychoanalytic Review 98, no. 2 (April 2011): 247–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/prev.2011.98.2.247.

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Smith, Patricia G. "CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION BY STRICT CONSTRUCTION." Journal of Social Philosophy 19, no. 2 (June 1988): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.1988.tb00397.x.

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Rescigno, A. "Models: Their Construction and Interpretation." International Journal of Biological Markers 9, no. 1 (January 1994): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/172460089400900101.

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HAMILTON-MILLER, J. M. T. "Construction and interpretation of isobolograms." Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 36, no. 6 (1995): 1104–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/36.6.1104.

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Weiling, Luo, and Liang Deng. "Legal Construction of Algorithm Interpretation." NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, no. 9 (December 17, 2019): 171–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nnjlsr.v1i9.122157.

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Nowadays the development of AI technology is not yet mature, let alone the legal definition and regulation of its type, even the type of technology itself is full of uncertain factors. Because of the rapid development of technology and the openness of theories, scientists have not yet formed a unified consensus and system on cutting-edge technical issues. Therefore, at present, governments all over the world are actively formulating the development plans of AI, but the supervision and regulation of AI are scattered and lagging behind. There is nothing wrong with encouraging the development of new technologies, but the application of technologies requires a responsible response to various ethical demands from human society. No matter what form of AI technology and its application are inseparable from the algorithm and the issue of “algorithm accountability” may probably be a focus of legal regulations on AI and the path of accountability is algorithm interpretation. It is desirable but regrettable that the EU’s GDPR stipulates the non-binding “right to explanation”. But the stop of GDPR is exactly the starting point of constructing the algorithm interpretation mechanism in law.

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JANKE, VIKKI, and LAURA R. BAILEY. "Effects of discourse on control." Journal of Linguistics 53, no. 3 (September 21, 2016): 533–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226716000281.

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This study examined discourse effects on obligatory and non-obligatory control interpretations. Seventy participants undertook three online forced-choice surveys, which monitored preferred interpretations in complement control, verbal gerund subject control, long-distance control and sentence-final temporal adjunct control. Survey 1 ascertained their baseline interpretations of the empty category in these constructions. Survey 2 primed the critical sentences used in survey 1 with a weakly established topic of discourse and survey 3 primed them with a strongly established one. Reference assignment in complement control remained consistent across all three conditions, illustrating that pragmatics does not infiltrate this structurally regulated and syntactically unambiguous construction. Changes in interpretation were found in the remaining three constructions. An accessibility-motivated scale of influence, combining three independent discourse factors (topichood, competition and linear distance) was created to model reference determination in verbal gerund subject control and long-distance control. The results for temporal adjunct control are novel. They revealed a much stronger susceptibility to pragmatic interference than that reported in the literature yet the construction behaved differently from non-obligatory control under discourse pressure. We propose a structural account for sentence-final temporal adjunct control, which permits the evident interpretation shift while still excluding arbitrary and sentence-external interpretations.

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Herlina, Herlina, Hamzah A. Machmoed, and Sukmawaty. "The Analysis of Sentence Construction and Meaning Interpretation of English Break Verbs and their Verbs Equivalence in Buginese Language." EDUVELOP 5, no. 2 (March 30, 2022): 72–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.31605/eduvelop.v5i2.1346.

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The purpose of this research is to compare the sentence form and meaning interpretation of 'Break' Verbs in English and Buginese. The sentence construction and the meaning interpretation of verbs confined to Break Verb from English and Buginese language were compared with regards to Dixon’s Affect Verbs Construction and Halliday’s Functional Grammar Construction. The data of this research were collected from two sources. The English data were collected from British National Corpus (BNC) while the Buginese Data was collected from field observation and interview on Soppeng Buginese speaking community. The data were collected and analyzed using Descriptive Qualitative Methods. According to the findings of this study, it was found eighteen Break Verbs in the English language and nineteen in the Buginese language; 2) The ‘Break’ Verbs in both languages are realized into sentences through a number of selections of constructions set up in the two theories that were examined in this research and some additional constructions where each construction plays some contribution to the meaning interpretation; 3) The Break Verbs found in both languages have some similarities and differences regarding their sentence construction and meaning interpretation.

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Nicolle, Steve. "Conditionals in the New Testament: Interpretation and Translation." Journal of Translation 18, no. 2 (2022): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.54395/jot-6cpw9.

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There are over six hundred conditional sentences in the Greek New Testament, defined as sentences consisting of two clauses, one of which contains the conjunction εἰ or ἐάν and expresses the condition under which the other clause holds. The conditions which εἰ and ἐάν introduce encompass a wide range of meanings, which are unlikely to be expressed by any single conjunction, particle, or construction in another language. Understanding the range of meanings associated with Greek conditional constructions is therefore an essential first step in translating them appropriately. This paper describes the various constructions that are used in New Testament Greek to express conditionality (following the traditional classification of conditionals), demonstrating that the form of each construction does not entirely determine how it should be interpreted. The paper also looks at constructions containing εἰ or ἐάν that express specific meanings, which may be more or less conditional in nature.

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Robertson, Andrew. "Purposive contractual interpretation." Legal Studies 39, no. 2 (January 28, 2019): 230–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lst.2018.33.

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AbstractIt is now well recognised that contractual purposes play an important role in the construction of contracts. The methods by which purposes are taken into account have not, however, been systematically explored. This paper considers three central issues in the purposive construction of contracts: first, the reasons contractual purposes are relevant to the interpretation of express terms and the identification of implied terms; secondly, the way in which contractual purposes are identified and distinguished from individual party interests; and, thirdly, the different ways in which contractual purposes inform the processes of interpretation and implication. It is argued that reference to contractual purposes can both raise and resolve interpretive choices, and that purposive construction plays a significant and under-recognised role in the identification of implied terms.

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Spitz, Ellen Handler, and James Elkins. "Construction versus Deconstruction in Psychoanalytic Interpretation." Art Bulletin 77, no. 2 (June 1995): 341. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3046110.

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Zheng, Yuan, Mustafa Khalid Masood, Olli Seppänen, Seppo Törmä, and Antti Aikala. "Ontology-Based Semantic Construction Image Interpretation." Buildings 13, no. 11 (November 9, 2023): 2812. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13112812.

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Image-based techniques have become integral to the construction sector, aiding in project planning, progress monitoring, quality control, and documentation. In this paper, we address two key challenges that limit our ability to fully exploit the potential of images. The first is the “semantic gap” between low-level image features and high-level semantic descriptions. The second is the lack of principled integration between images and other digital systems used in construction, such as construction schedules and building information modeling (BIM). These challenges make it difficult to effectively incorporate images into digital twins of construction (DTC), a critical concept that addresses the construction industry’s need for more efficient project management and decision-making. To address these challenges, we first propose an ontology-based construction image interpretation (CII) framework to formalize the interpretation and integration workflow. Then, the DiCon-SII ontology is developed to provide a formalized vocabulary for visual construction contents and features. DiCon-SII also acts as a bridge between images and other digital systems to help construct an image-involved DTC. To evaluate the practical application of DiCon-SII and CII in supporting construction management tasks and as a precursor to DTC, we conducted a case study involving drywall installation. Via this case study, we demonstrate how the proposed methods can be used to infer the operational stage of a construction process, estimate labor productivity, and retrieve specific images based on user queries.

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Quarles, Charles. "FROM FAITH TO FAITH: A FRESH EXAMINATION OF THE PREPOSITIONAL SERIES IN ROMANS 1:17." Novum Testamentum 45, no. 1 (2003): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853603762390853.

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AbstractThis article examines and evaluates important interpretations of the εκ πιστεως εις πιστιν prepositional series in Rom. 1:17. It evaluates these interpretations in light of four criteria: (1) Is the interpretation consistent with usage of the construction in ancient Greek texts? (2) Does the interpretation address a theme of Romans that is prominent enough to account for its inclusion in the programmatic statement? (3) Is the interpretation consistent with Paul's normal modes of expression? (4) Is the interpretation compatible with the Hab. 2:4 citation? These criteria raise serious doubts about several well-established interpretations and suggest that scholars should more seriously consider the interpretation of Chrysostom and other Greek fathers.

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Jha, Srijita, and Akshay Zaveri. "Working of Section 153A of the Income Tax Act, 1961: Resolving the Conflict between the Literal Rule of Interpretation and Harmonious Construction." Christ University Law Journal 6, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.12728/culj.11.3.

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This article ventures into the various interpretations given by the court for the execution of Section 153A of the Income Tax Act, 1961. It has forever been a conflict as to how the particular section has to be interpreted, in order to decide whether the items of regular assessment can be added back in the proceeding under section 153A, after the finalization of assessment. This article tries to decode the mixed opinions of the court with regard to whether it is the literal rule of interpretation or the rule of harmonious construction that would apply to interpret Section 153A. This issue has been dealt with by the authors by analysing the various tools of interpretation of statutes like Literal Rule of Interpretation, reading down of statute as a whole, Rule of Harmonious Construction of statute etc. and their application in various cases based on judicial dicta of the court of law. The authors, based on thorough analysis of Section 153A, based on the language of the provision and the interpretations attached to it by the Judiciary, have tried to resolve the conflict between the Literal rule of interpretation and harmonious construction.

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Iryna, Sharkova. "Genesis Good Faith Interpretation (Interpretatio ex Bona Fide) in Roman Private Law." Legal Ukraine 5, no. 5 (May 26, 2021): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.37749/2308-9636-2021-5(221)-6.

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The paper explores the main meaning of understanding of interpretation technologies based on the principle of good faith (bona fides). For this purpose, a compratibly historical method of private law is applied. It was substantiated the understanding of the process of development for the Roman legal institution of interpretation (ius interpretātio) as a transformation of its historical forms or sub-institutions. Were further developed the historical reconstruction of the Roman legal institution of iudicia bonae fidei as the most important for the formation of ius interpretātio by focusing on the study of key legal constructions pro boni viri arbitrio. This made it possible to obtain information that can be reduced to three positions: (1) The essence of the Principle of Good Conscience has a constant nature in world history; (2) In Roman private law, a contextual approach to interpretation was used, and in modern civil law of Ukraine – fundamentally different, textual; (3) The subjective criterion of common sense requires the implementation of the Civil code of Ukraine. It provides changes in the official legal structure of the priority of the literal interpretation of the content of the transaction, enshrined in Art. 213 of the CCU, on the construction of the rule of good faith interpretation, which is generally recognized in European contract law. Key words: comparative historical analysis, good faith, common sense, good faith interpretation, good faith contracts, claims of goodholders.

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Zhukovska, Victoria. "INTERPRETING DETACHED CONSTRUCTIONS WITH EXPLICIT SUBJECT THROUGH THE PRISM OF RELATED TERMS." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 831-832 (2021): 48–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2021.831-832.48-60.

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This article provides a comprehensive account of the English detached nonfinite and nonverbal constructions with the explicit subject within the framework of construction grammar. The study overviews the terms utilized in Western grammatical studies to nominate the investigated syntactic structures. Depending on the ontological and gnoseological assumptions of a particular linguistic approach, the analyzed terms highlight specific aspects of the syntactic structures under study (morphosyntactic features, syntactic functions, the subject’s case, coreference with the matrix clause, intonation and punctuation marking), and, therefore, cannot fully reveal the nature of the given syntactic phenomenon. The paper discusses the advantages of the term “detached nonfinite and nonverbal constructions with the explicit subject” for cognitive and quantitative operationalization and theoretical substantiation of the examined structures. The component construction is used in the interpretation of the cognitive construction grammar and defined as a noncompositional language sign, a complex pairing of form and meaning, where some aspects of the forms or the meanings cannot be derived from the form and the meaning of its components or from other existing constructions. In present-day English detached [aug/øaug[SubjNP] [PredNF/VL]] constructions constitute a taxonomic constructional network represented through a multiple hierarchy of adjunct clauses combined with the plane of detachment. The network of the analyzed constructions is developed around the constructional schema, represented by the construction of the highest degree of schematicity and abstraction (macro-construction). The features of the macro-construction are inherited by the constructions of a lower level – meso-constructions and individual micro-constructions and are reflected in the specific realized constructions – constructs.

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Romadhon, Ahmad Heru, Fachria Lapasere, and Yuli Endah Wardantik. "Restrictive use of interpretation of language actions in legal construction." Electronic Journal of Education, Social Economics and Technology 3, no. 1 (April 30, 2022): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.33122/ejeset.v3i1.34.

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The purpose of this study is to understand the essence of language action in legal construction as a means of communication that should rely on language grammar in interpreting the meaning of sentences. Such a method is an attempt to avoid the different interpretations of the multiple interpretations of the meaning of language. The simplification of legal language must be linked to the content of the rules, where there are two arguments regarding "intentions and extensions", before carrying out legal interpretation, then interpretation is generally understood as a process, action, series of interpreting and explaining the meaning of something that is less clear or opinion, view of the context in which it is interpreted. This study uses a normative juridical method that explains the interpretation of manuscripts, legal principles and principles, legal rules, theories and legal doctrines that apply as a tool to understand the meaning of legal language communication and to understand the substance of a statutory regulation. The research approach uses a conceptual approach to examine and examine the subject matter. The consequences of blurred inter-connections result in a disparity in the factual application of the law which is correlated with a “policy during decision-making” in a formulaic policy which is a “policy” context. Based on these aspects, especially in language action, it is essentially an "effort in realizing clarity of meaning in laws and regulations so that they are in accordance with current and future implementation and conditions.

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Chang, Wen-Hsien, Chih-Chieh Chen, Han-Kuei Wu, Po-Chi Hsu, Lun-Chien Lo, Hsueh-Ting Chu, and Hen-Hong Chang. "Tongue feature dataset construction and real-time detection." PLOS ONE 19, no. 3 (March 7, 2024): e0296070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296070.

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Background Tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) provides clinically important, objective evidence from direct observation of specific features that assist with diagnosis. However, the current interpretation of tongue features requires a significant amount of manpower and time. TCM physicians may have different interpretations of features displayed by the same tongue. An automated interpretation system that interprets tongue features would expedite the interpretation process and yield more consistent results. Materials and methods This study applied deep learning visualization to tongue diagnosis. After collecting tongue images and corresponding interpretation reports by TCM physicians in a single teaching hospital, various tongue features such as fissures, tooth marks, and different types of coatings were annotated manually with rectangles. These annotated data and images were used to train a deep learning object detection model. Upon completion of training, the position of each tongue feature was dynamically marked. Results A large high-quality manually annotated tongue feature dataset was constructed and analyzed. A detection model was trained with average precision (AP) 47.67%, 58.94%, 71.25% and 59.78% for fissures, tooth marks, thick and yellow coatings, respectively. At over 40 frames per second on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, the model was capable of detecting tongue features from any viewpoint in real time. Conclusions/Significance This study constructed a tongue feature dataset and trained a deep learning object detection model to locate tongue features in real time. The model provided interpretability and intuitiveness that are often lacking in general neural network models and implies good feasibility for clinical application.

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Catterwell, Ryan. "Striking a Balance in Contract Interpretation: The Primacy of the Text." Edinburgh Law Review 23, no. 1 (January 2019): 52–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/elr.2019.0524.

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In Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] AC 1173, the UK Supreme Court emphasised that contract interpretation involves ‘striking a balance between the indications given by the language and the implications of the competing constructions’. This paper investigates the nature of the balancing act at the heart of construction. It argues that the balancing exercise is easier to comprehend if construction is understood in a particular way, namely, as a technique employed to infer objective intention from the choice of words in a contract. The admissible factors—ie, the potential meanings for the words, the background, the purpose of the contract and the consequences of the potential interpretations—serve as indicators of intention. The composition and relative strength of the competing considerations ultimately determines the resolution of the dispute. Often, the objective intention of the parties is found in the complexities and implications of the contract text.

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Amy Li, Xiaofan. "Temporality in the Construction of Comparative Interpretation." Comparative Critical Studies 12, no. 2 (June 2015): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2015.0169.

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Weckerly, Floyd W. "MATRIX POPULATION MODELS: CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION." Natural Resource Modeling 14, no. 4 (June 28, 2008): 593–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-7445.2001.tb00075.x.

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Smeyers, Paul. "Data construction and interpretation in educational research." History of Education 45, no. 1 (July 3, 2015): 122–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2015.1056250.

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Neophytou, J. P. "Construction and interpretation of a patent claim." Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 6, no. 9 (June 30, 2011): 594–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpr106.

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Logofet, Dmitrii O. "Matrix Population Models: Construction, Analysis, and Interpretation." Ecological Modelling 148, no. 3 (March 2002): 307–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3800(02)00002-9.

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Schmidt, Michael W., and Mark S. Gordon. "THE CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION OF MCSCF WAVEFUNCTIONS." Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 49, no. 1 (October 1998): 233–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.physchem.49.1.233.

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Tetley, William. "Canadian Interpretation and Construction of Maritime Conventions." Revue générale de droit 22, no. 1 (March 21, 2019): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1058170ar.

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In this article, the author first describes the essentially civilian nature and origin of maritime law in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, a point unfortunately overlooked in the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the Buenos Aires Maru case [1986] 1 S.C.R. 752, but recognized in the judgement of the same Court in Chartwell Shipping Ltd v. Q.N.S. Paper, [1989] 2 S.C.R. 683. The article touches briefly on the federal jurisdiction over maritime law in Canada, the dual jurisdiction of the Federal Court and the superior courts of the provinces in maritime matters and the mixed civilian / common law system in Quebec. Consideration is then given to the Constitution Act, 1867, as interpreted by the much-criticized Labour Conventions decision of the Privy Council [1937] A.C. 326. The decision held that although the power to conclude international treaties and conventions in Canada is vested in the federal government alone, the enactment of the domestic legislation required to secure the implementation of such international agreements is not an exclusively federal matter, but may be a question of either federal or provincial competence, depending on the subject matter of the treaty or convention concerned. The author then reviews the principal rules of statutory interpretation which are provided for by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969. He points out that, notwithstanding Canada’s ratification of this Convention in 1970, Canadian courts still tend to apply traditional (and often narrow) techniques of statutory interpretation when called upon to construe treaty texts, rather than keeping the goals of the agreement and intent of the parties in view, as the Vienna Convention requires. He indicates, however, a more recent judicial trend towards a more liberal methodology, as evidenced in decisions like R. v. Palacios, (1984) 45 O.R. (2d) 269 (Ont. C.A.) The article concludes with a brief overview of the major statutory interpretation rules applied by Canadian courts in construing local laws and international agreements and some aids to such interpretation. Professor Tetley, as a last tribute, applauds what he sees to be the slowly emerging "general consensus" on statutory and treaty interpretation in Canada.

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Spaić, Bojan. "Interpretation and construction: An addendum to the discussion about creation and application of law." Pravni zapisi 12, no. 1 (2021): 29–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/pravzap0-31882.

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As part of their regular activities, courts attach meaning to legal texts to determine the normative situation of the parties to the dispute. The activity of attributing meaning to legal texts by the courts is commonly called authoritative interpretation of law. In many cases, the meaning attributed to the text by the court deviates significantly from what laymen and even lawyers would expect, and the deviations themselves are explained in different ways in legal theory. In the purpose of explanation, the terms creation and application of law, extensive and restrictive interpretation, secundum, praeter and contra legem adjudication are used. This paper introduces and explains the concepts of interpretation, construction and their relationship, as possible explanations of situations in which authoritative judicial interpretations deviate from the expectations of the professional and lay public. For this purpose, contemporary textualist and intentionalist (cognitivist) conceptions of interpretation and construction are presented and compared with contemporary skeptical (realist, antiformalist) conceptions. Despite the simplicity and intuitive acceptability of some cognitivist views, skepticism is shown to provide a better theoretical basis for considering the application and creation of rights by courts. The very distinction between interpretation and construction proves to be a useful theoretical tool for explaining the actions of courts, as well as for specifying existing theoretical distinctions.

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Macdonald, Fiona. "Constructing the Ideal Interpretation." Groundings Undergraduate 8 (April 1, 2015): 56–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.36399/groundingsug.8.208.

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The First Book of Samuel traces the rise and fall of King Saul. His troubled kingship has been interpreted in numerous ways over the centuries by biblical scholars, literary critics, medical professionals and people of faith. The search for an explanation of King Saul's 'madness' has meant that the text has been handled in several different ways, ultimately leading to the construction of various perceptions of the biblical narrative, of King Saul's character and of the biblical representation of mental health.

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Härtl, Holden. "Name-informing and distancing sogenannt ‘so-called’: Name mentioning and the lexicon-pragmatics interface." Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 37, no. 2 (November 27, 2018): 139–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2018-0008.

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Abstract This paper aims at a unified analysis of the different interpretations which constructions involving the German name-mentioning modifier sogenannt ‘so-called’ can adopt. In contrast to nouns like Sepsis ‘sepsis’, a noun like Hotel ‘hotel’, as in sogenanntes Hotel, gives rise to a “distanced” interpretation of the construction rather than one informing about a concept’s name. After a thorough investigation of the lexical-semantic properties, we propose the reading of the construction to emerge from an interplay between lexical factors like the head nominal’s conventionalization, on the one hand, and pragmatic implicatures rooted in relevance- as well as manner-based principles, on the other. From a compositional perspective, the so in sogenannt will be reasoned to be identical in function to quotation marks as a means to refer to a linguistic shape through demonstration. The different interpretations of the construction will be coupled with the type of binding of the agent-argument variable as well as the event variable of the verbal root nenn- ‘call’ of sogenannt.

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Taufiqurrahman, Taufiqurrahman, and Resya Farasy Naffasa. "Construction of Epistemological Interpretation on Eschatology Verses In ‘Aisyah ‘Abdurrahman al-Syati’s Perspective." Jurnal Ushuluddin 28, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.24014/jush.v28i2.10263.

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This study aims to examine the perspective of ‘Aisyaḧ ‘Abdurrahman al-Syati’ (1913-1998), as a contemporary female mufassir, regarding eschatological verses in surah al-Zalzalaḧ to prove the epistemological construction of interpretations based on sources, methods and validity of truth. The object of this research is the text and its relationship with past events, that a literature study is carried out to learn content analysis using a historical approach. The primary data in this study is the book of Tafsyr al-Bayany and supported by literature on the epistemology of interpretation in a philosophical approach. The results revealed that ‘Âisyah ‘Abdurrahman has interpreted surah al-Zalzalaḧ referred to Arabic language grammar, the prophet’s hadith, and previous interpretations. In the epistemology of interpretation, the verses about eschatology are not sufficient if they are interpreted in language separately, despite proving the validity of interpretive coherence, she remains consistent in using those method, even correspondingly the interpretation of zilzal is a picture of the earth’s condition when it shakes in accordance with the reality and scientific facts about earthquake, as well as in line with the argument about a doomsday that is bound to happen as found in terms in the Qur’an.

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Gu, Yuting, and Ying Huang. "The Pragmatic Motivation of Atypical English Way into/to Construction." English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies 6, no. 2 (April 4, 2024): p129. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/eltls.v6n2p129.

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The English way construction exhibits distinct constructional meaning and semantic features; however, the prepositional slot in this construction has not received sufficient attention, and there remains a lack of comparative research regarding different prepositions in this field. This study set out to examine the semantic classification, mapping features, cognitive factors in the subcategory English way into/to construction, and to improve the algorithm of ΔPratio. The research adopted a bottom-up corpus-driven approach based on the BNC and used HAC (Hierarchical Cluster Analysis) to explore the semantic categories of the verb collexemes and compare the lexical richness in these two constructions. The results revealed that at the level of linguistic structure, coercion and metaphor, as well as family resemblance, served as legitimization methods for verb entry into the construction, while the principles of economy and expressivity disclosed the intentions and motivations behind the semantic extensions of constructions at the pragmatic level. Additionally, this research found that the latter two principles were competitive in the interpretation process of way into/to construction, providing insights into understanding the psychological and social factors in language communication.

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M. Taufiq Hidayat and Yusuf Rahman. "AL-QURAN DAN INTERPRETASI IDEOLOGIS." Al Burhan: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu dan Pengembangan Budaya Al-Qur'an 22, no. 01 (August 14, 2022): 46–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.53828/alburhan.v22i01.743.

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This paper proves that the ideological construction of an interpretation will determine the tendency of a product of interpretation and has the potential to reduce the meaning of a text and even reject other interpretations. The product of such interpretation is only more concerned with the process of elaborating verses for certain interests by designing themes and sub-themes as well as tendentious conclusions and even blaming "infidel" Muslims who are not in line, intolerant of differences of opinion, partial and fanatical which are full of radical ideologies. The findings in this article prove that the construction of Rokhmat S. Labib's interpretation is more of a process of elaborating verses for certain interests by designing themes and sub-themes with tendentious conclusions and even blaming "infidels" Muslims who are impartial, intolerant of differences, partial and fanatical. . The interpretation is often separated from the context of the verse, which causes this work to be inconsistent in taking references even though it does not ignore the historical context of the verse. This article also proves that the author's background determines ideological tendencies and interests in an interpretation.

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Tietz, Jonathan. "The "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" and Applying Issue Preclusion to Administrative Patent Claim Construction." Michigan Law Review, no. 117.2 (2018): 349. http://dx.doi.org/10.36644/mlr.117.2.broadest.

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Inventions are tangible. Yet patents comprise words, and words are imprecise. Thus, disputes over patents involve a process known as “claim construction,” which formally clarifies the meaning of a patent claim’s words and, therefore, the scope of the underlying property right. Adversarial claim construction commonly occurs in various Article III and Article I settings, such as district courts or the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). When these proceedings ignore each other’s claim constructions, a patent’s scope can become inconsistent and unpredictable. The doctrine of issue preclusion could help with this problem. The Supreme Court recently reemphasized in B & B Hardware v. Hargis Industries that administrative decisions can have issue preclusive effect. But district courts and the PTAB use formally different legal standards in claim construction, where the district court takes a narrower view of a patent’s scope. This Note contends that a claim construction determination made by the PTAB under the “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard should, indeed, be the broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim. To facilitate uniformity and public notice, issue preclusion should be applied such that the PTAB’s “broadest reasonable interpretation” is an outer interpretive bound of a patent’s scope in subsequent district court litigation.

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Сорокина, Юлия, Yuliya Sorokina, Наталья Малиновская, and Natalya Malinovskaya. "JURIDICAL CONSTRUCTION AS A RESULT OF LEGAL INTERPRETATION." Encyclopedia of Law 1, no. 1 (September 1, 2013): 70–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/902.

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Ellis, Nick C., and Teresa Cadierno. "Constructing a Second Language." Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 7 (November 16, 2009): 111–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/arcl.7.05ell.

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This Special Section brings together researchers who adopt a constructional approach to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as informed by Cognitive and Corpus Linguistics, approaches which fall under the general umbrella of Usage-based Linguistics. The articles present psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic evidence for L2 constructions and for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. They consider the psycholinguistics of language learning following general cognitive principles of category learning, with schematic constructions emerging from usage. They analyze how learning is driven by the frequency and frequency distribution of exemplars within construction, the salience of their form, the significance of their functional interpretation, the match of their meaning to the construction prototype, and the reliability of their mappings. They explore conceptual transfer and the acquisition of second language meaning. They consider the implications of these phenomena for L2 instruction.

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TASSON, CHRISTINE, and LIONEL VAUX. "Transport of finiteness structures and applications." Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 28, no. 7 (December 5, 2016): 1061–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960129516000384.

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We describe a general construction of finiteness spaces which subsumes the interpretations of all positive connectors of linear logic. We then show how to apply this construction to prove the existence of least fixpoints for particular functors in the category of finiteness spaces: These include the functors involved in a relational interpretation of lazy recursive algebraic datatypes along the lines of the coherence semantics of system T.

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Koss, Tom, Astrid De Wit, and Johan van der Auwera. "The Aspectual Meaning of Non-Aspectual Constructions." Languages 7, no. 2 (June 2, 2022): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7020143.

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The distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect has been identified in many languages across the world. This paper shows that even languages that do not have a dedicated perfective—imperfective distinction may endow a verbal construction that is not specifically aspectual with a perfective value. The crucial diagnostic for identifying perfectivity in a given non-aspectual construction is a difference in the temporal interpretation of clauses involving that construction, licensed by the actionality class of the main predicate: while stative verbs have a present interpretation, dynamic verbs yield a non-present (past or future) interpretation. This pattern of interaction is triggered by a phenomenon that has been referred to as the ‘present perfective paradox’, i.e., the impossibility of aligning dynamic situations with the time of speaking while at the same time conceptualizing them in their entirety. The latter type of construal is argued to be the main function of perfective aspect. The range of non-aspectual constructions with underlying perfective semantics includes ‘iamitive’ markers, an evidential, an epistemic supposition marker, a focus marker, a polar question marker, and a declarative marker. These constructions come from typologically different and genetically unrelated languages, illustrating the cross-linguistic salience of the category of perfective aspect.

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Yalley, Abena Asefuaba. "Shakespeare in the bush: Gender constructions and interpretations of Hamlet by the West African Tiv." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 23, no. 1 (August 31, 2022): 240–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v23i1.9.

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This paper analyses how gender is constructed by the Tivs through their interpretation of Hamlet in comparison with how Shakespeare projects these characters. Hamlet, a tragic play by Shakespeare, presents a patriarchal system of governance with strong themes of betrayal, love, kinship, religion, and revenge. The lack of agency and autonomy of women, sexual objectification, and their plagues as victims of patriarchy portrayed in Hamlet is a vivid presentation of the fate of women in a patriarchal world. While these may seem universal, the contradictory interpretation of Hamlet by the Tivs in Nigeria demands an inquiry into how the people of Tiv construct and interpret gender in Shakespeare's Hamlet. This paper, therefore, compares the Tiv's culture and gender values with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The paper argues that the Tiv’s construction of gender contradicts Western conceptions of gruesome patriarchal performance in Africa as presented in Western literature. The analysis revealed that the Tiv’s construction of gender gave more agency, power, and respect to women and differed significantly from how Shakespeare constructed gender in Hamlet. The masculinization of witchcraft and the demeaning of the male characters in Hamlet gave less honour and power to the male characters. Tiv’s interpretations and gender constructions present a rather diverging representation of women in Hamlet based on cultural negotiations and lived experiences; thereby, demonstrating how cultural dynamism shapes gender constructions.

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Yao, Jennifer Shuiying. "NP interpretation and disposal variations among the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shaoxing dialects." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 19, no. 2 (March 15, 2018): 306–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00011.yao.

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Abstract Corresponding to the Ba construction (S Ba-OVC) in Mandarin, Cantonese prefers a strong SVCO word order, and the Shaoxing dialect adopts an SOVC variation. This paper makes a detailed cross-linguistic study on the structure and semantic interpretations of disposal NPs and highlights the role of the disposal NPs in the formation of disposal construction in the above three dialects. It suggests that the word order variations in disposal constructions among the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shaoxing dialects result from the different options being adopted to make the object NPs conform to the so called definiteness constraint of a disposal NP, namely, definite, specific, or generic.

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Shen, Vincent. "From Interpretation to Construction: Guo Xiang’s Ontological Individualism." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 40, no. 5 (March 2, 2013): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15406253-04005014.

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Guo Xiang’s ontological individualism represents a case of philosophical construction based on his interpretation of the Zhuangzi. His concept of the self-transformation of the individual who is selfborn, with self-nature and without dependence on others supports the idea of individual autonomy. Nevertheless, each individual’s act for self-interest still benefits other individuals in a non-teleological mutual accommodation. The path from duhua (self-transformation) of each individual on the level of existence, to the xiangyin (mutual accommodation) among individuals on the level of action consequence, to the ideal of xuanming (ultimate concordance), is the path on which the world is to proceed.

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Mogoşan, Iulia. "Schubert’s “Tenth”: an Interpretation Between Construction and Restitution." Artes. Journal of Musicology 25, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 58–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajm-2022-0005.

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Abstract In Franz Schubert’s creation the fragment takes on various forms of manifestation, ranging from the fragmentary reception of an already constituted piece to the fragmentary notation, in the form of a sketch, of a work that has not yet been completed. A special place belongs to the Tenth Symphony in D major, D 936A, by Schubert, left unfinished; we received it as a sketch, in a convolute, together with two other unfinished symphonies in the same key: D 615 and D 708A. The present study aims to expose three artistic interpretations of these sketches, materialized in completed musical works, with a distinct approach. The intention of the British composer and conductor Brian Newbould was to finish the symphony in the way that Schubert himself would have done, anchoring the musical ideas from the sketches in the composer’s style. Peter Gülke approached the sketches through the eyes of the researcher and the analyst, with the intention of obtaining their most accurate and authentic reproduction, emphasizing the materialization of some of Schubert’s possible intentions. Finally, Luciano Berio manages in Rendering to musically render the sketches per se, imagining a musical fresco where the concrete musical ideas, written by Schubert, are deliberately mixed with the provisional character of the manuscript.

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Sharma, Manoj. "Interpretation of Risk Factors in Building Construction Projects." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 7, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2019.1007.

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Saito, Hitomi, Kazuhisa Miwa, Nana Kanzaki, Hitoshi Terai, Kazuaki Kojima, Ryuichi Nakaike, and Junya Morita. "Supporting Theory-based Data Interpretation through Model Construction." Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 30, no. 3 (2015): 547–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1527/tjsai.30.547.

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Goncharenko, Mark, Olga Demidova, and Valentina Goncharenko. "Construction of new epistemological fields: Interpretation, translation, transmutation." Semiotica 2018, no. 225 (November 6, 2018): 383–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0166.

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AbstractThis article deals with the problem of the formation of new epistemological fields, which appear simultaneously with a new interpretation. Based on the semiotic approach described by Umberto Eco in Lector in Fabula (Eco, Umberto. 2003. Dire quasi la stessa cosa: Esperienze di traduzione [To say almost the same thing: Experience translation]. Milan: Bompiani.), we analyze several works in the context of their synchronization with a reader’s reality. We also deal with the problem of intersemiotic translation – a text’s transmutation (including its translation as a particular case of transmutation), and how it contributes both to intercultural interaction and to construction of new epistemological fields of conceiving consciousness. According to the hypothesis stated in the article, different ideas form different meanings as objects of a reader’s/spectator’s thoughts. A new aspect of interpretation brings forth new text transmutations, which appears as the process of transformation of the concept idea as an abstract essence or an abstract object. We suppose that diachrony, being the main factor of a text’s interpretation, determines a variative set of meanings.

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Rowe, Matthew. "Interpretation and Construction, Art, Speech, and the Law." British Journal of Aesthetics 44, no. 3 (July 1, 2004): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/44.3.303.

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Harrison, Nicholas J. "Construction or deconstruction in the interpretation of statutes?" Law Teacher 23, no. 2 (January 1989): 162–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069400.1989.9992734.

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Troyan, V. N., and G. A. Ryzhikov. "Diffraction tomography: Construction and interpretation of tomographic functionals." Journal of Mathematical Sciences 86, no. 3 (September 1997): 2773–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02355168.

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Clark, Elizabeth A. "Biblical Interpretation and the Construction of Christian Sexualities." Church History 69, no. 2 (June 2000): 277–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700087321.

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