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Journal articles on the topic "Modal meaning"

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Eades, Domenyk. "Translating English modal expressions." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 57, no. 3 (November 10, 2011): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.57.3.03ead.

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Modals are a source of difficulty in translation due to the subtle and complex nature of the meanings they convey, as well as the diversity of formal means by which modal meaning is coded from one language to another. The present study sheds light on difficulties associated with the translation of modal expressions by exploring errors in the translations of a group of native Arabic-speaking translator trainees, and identifies difficulties they experienced in transferring modal meaning from an English source text (ST) to an Arabic target text (TT). Shortcomings in the skills and training of the participants are discussed in the light of these findings, and suggestions are given as to how these may be remedied.<p>The results of the study show that while the students generally exhibit a sound knowledge of the dictionary meanings of the modal expressions in the ST, the precise sense of a given modal was often misconstrued and in many cases the modal meaning was missing entirely from the translations. These problems suggest that the participants tended to process the meanings of the ST at the word and sentence level while neglecting broader macro-level meanings conveyed in the text (e.g. cohesion, text type, relationship between author and audience).<p>The study reveals that in addition to the need for students to develop greater awareness of the nature of modality and its expression in both English and Arabic, greater emphasis is needed in the training of the students on the improvement of topdown text processing skills.<p>
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Davies, Eirian. "May, might and degrees of positivity in four English sentence types." English Text Construction 5, no. 2 (November 23, 2012): 230–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.5.2.04dav.

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This paper develops the framework of telling and knowledge operators earlier proposed for distinctions of mood and sentence types in the lexical verb (Davies 2006) to apply to non-inferential epistemic modal verbs. It consists of two parts: the first offers some background to the approach and sets out the formal model used; the second applies this model to two modal verbs. It considers the meanings of the modal verbs may (not) and might (not) as used in four different English sentence-types, with a view to assessing the different degrees of ‘loading’ towards a positive belief that they convey. Different kinds of meanings are suggested, one to do with degrees of a speaker’s commitment to what s/he is saying (‘presentational meaning’), and another to do with attitudes projected, by the speaker through the constructions s/he uses, onto the addressee(s) in a developing text (‘textual meaning’). In the case of the two modal verbs studied here, the textual meaning is said to be contrastive in relation to the speaker’s own ‘presentational meaning’.
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Cappelle, Bert, and Ilse Depraetere. "Modal meaning in Construction Grammar." Constructions and Frames 8, no. 1 (September 26, 2016): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.1.01cap.

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Klinge, Alex. "The English modal auxiliaries: from lexical semantics to utterance interpretation." Journal of Linguistics 29, no. 2 (September 1993): 315–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700000359.

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Like so many others before it, this exposition is of the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries, which are found in utterances conveying modal meanings such as ability, possibility and permission. However, unlike the majority of its predecessors, the present rendering admits to being about more than semantics. With the five central modal auxiliaries, can, may, must, will and shall, the modals for short, as a point of departure, a framework will be formulated to shed light on some central aspects of the immense cotext and context sensitivity involved in the meaning of utterances of sentences containing a modal auxiliary.
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Devyatova, Nadezda M. "Introductory modal words and their pragmatic meanings." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 1 (January 2021): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.1-21.014.

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The article considers a group of introductory-modal words ‘вообще, вообще-то, в общем, в общем-то, вообще-то говоря’. Having the ability to express the idea of generalization, they are distinguished by their pragmatics, the subtle nuances of modus meanings and ratings. The differences relate to the speaker’s attitude to the situation and its assessment: whether the situation is presented as significant, requiring attention and effort (‘и вообще’), or as natural, ordinary (‘в общем’). In the number of units studied, the meaning “the way of expressing a thought and its design” is also significant, dealing with a greater or less categorical utterance of a statement. For ‘вообще-то говоря’ priority meaning is the meaning of “a way of expressing thoughts” — a polite form of expression of thought can be noted. The polite form is ‘вообще-то говоря’.'
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Hornacek Banasova, Monika. "Prepositional Word Combinations with modal meaning." XLinguae 11, no. 3 (2018): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18355/xl.2018.11.03.05.

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Donghyeok Lee. "A Modal Meaning of –eoya hada." Journal of Korean Linguistics ll, no. 76 (December 2015): 95–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2015..76.004.

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COATES, JENNIFER. "Modal Meaning: The Semantic–Pragmatic Interface." Journal of Semantics 7, no. 1 (1990): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/7.1.53.

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Rossari, Corinne. "The evidential meaning of modal parentheticals." Journal of Pragmatics 44, no. 15 (December 2012): 2183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.09.004.

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Yanovich, Igor. "Invariantist ‘might’ and modal meaning change." Linguistics and Philosophy 36, no. 2 (April 2013): 175–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-013-9133-5.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Modal meaning"

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Farsani, Danyal. "Making multi-modal mathematical meaning in multilingual classrooms." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5752/.

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This thesis investigates communication (verbal and nonverbal) in a bilingual (Farsi-English) complementary school mathematics’ classroom. The study examines gestures were used as a resource for teaching mathematics in a bilingual setting, enabling intercolutors to construct meaning and mediate understanding. That is, the ways in which language and gesture can be seen as resources in supporting and conveying mathematical ideas is described. I investigated a number of verbal and nonverbal resources and show how these are culturally and socially shaped. I also explored how modes of communication are employed in creating mathematical meaning in a bilingual classroom context. A multimodality framework was adopted to analyse data which included audio and video recordings, observations and interviews with teachers and pupils. I found that gestures were employed to convey aspects of the mathematical register and how these were used to amplify what interlocutors were expressing verbally. Furthermore, I identified that different languages activated a different conceptual understanding of the same mathematical concept which was reflected through the students’ and teachers’ gestures.
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Ha, Nguyen Hong, and n/a. "Time and modality in Vietnamese : a contrastive study of Vietnamese and English." University of Canberra. Information Sciences, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060713.170038.

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The present study is an attempt to give a description of how temporal and modal meanings are expressed in Vietnamese, and to relate the description to English by way of translation correspondence. The study is, therefore, a contrastive work on Time and Modality in Vietnamese and English. It is hoped that Vietnamese students might find in this work some kind of help that may facilitate their study of English grammar as regards time and mood. In chapter 1, the author presents a brief history of foreign language teaching in Vietnam, and the role of English as a foreign language in the country at present. He also discusses problems confronting Vietnamese teachers and students in teaching and learning English and states the aims of the study. Next, the structure of the Vietnamese verb-phrase is discussed, with a view to giving the reader some idea of how auxiliaries operate in Vietnamese. In chapter 2, a description of temporal expression in Vietnamese is presented, with emphasis on the uses of the so-called "time auxiliaries". Also, time adverbs, time clauses and questions with time in Vietnamese are discussed. Chapter 3 deals with modal expression in Vietnamese. In this chapter special attention is given to the uses of the modal auxiliaries. Attempts are then made to describe the so-called "attitudinal disjuncts" and conditional sentences in Vietnamese. In chapter 4, implications for teaching time and modality in English to Vietnamese students are given. The author suggests some teaching points, which, through the present contrastive work, are likely to be some of the most difficult areas for Vietnamese speakers and therefore should be given the most particular attention.
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Brewer, Nicola M. "Modality and facivity : one perspective on the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/472/.

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This study concentrates on modality as expressed by the set of modal auxiliaries and seeks to establish that these verbs share semantic as well as syntactic properties by identifying a single core meaning which they share. The relationship between modality and factivity is examined with the aim of gaining an insight into the former, more complex concept. When viewed from this perspective, the defining characteristic of all the modal auxiliary verbs in almost all of their uses is found to be nonfactivity. The meanings expressed by this set of verbs are classified according to a framework derived from modal logic consisting of three basic types of modality each of which relates to a different set of laws or principles; the relative factivity associated with the modal auxiliaries is seen to vary with the nature of modality as defined and classified by this framework. Within each of the three types of modality, a semantic scale is identified and modality is described as a gradable concept for which scalar analysis is appropriate, both within and beyond these three scales. Relative factivity is also shown to vary according to the degree of modality expressed by each of the modal verbs. The nature and degree of modality expressed interact with features of the linguistic (and pragmatic) context to determine the particular factive or a contrafactive interpretation conveyed by a given modal auxiliary token. The influence of certain combinations of contextual features is sufficiently strong to force a factive or contrafactive reading of a modal token, although in general the role of such features is merely to strengthen or weaken the relative factivity associated with the modal verb. Epistemic modality is seen to be most directly related to nonfactivity and therefore to be the most central modal meaning. The modal auxiliaries are found to be semantically less modal when they occur in contexts of determinate factual status. Least modal are those members of this set of auxiliary verbs which in certain uses have determinate factual status even without the presence of any of the significant contextual features.
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Brewer, Nicola M. "Modality and factivity one perspective on the meaning of the english modal Auxiliaries /." Online version, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.381046.

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Isenberg, Jillian. "Rigid Designation, the Modal Argument, and the Nominal Description Theory." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/746.

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In this thesis, I describe and evaluate two recent accounts of naming. These accounts are motivated by Kripke?s response to Russell?s Description Theory of Names (DTN). Particularly, I consider Kripke?s Modal Argument (MA) and various arguments that have been given against it, as well as Kripke?s responses to these arguments. Further, I outline a version of MA that has recently been presented by Scott Soames, and consider how he responds to the criticisms that the argument faces. In order to evaluate the claim that MA is decisive against all description theories, I outline the Nominal Description Theory (NDT) put forth by Kent Bach and consider whether it constitutes a principled response to MA. I do so by exploring how Bach both responds to Kripke?s arguments against descriptivism and highlights the problems with rigid designation as a purely semantic thesis. Finally, I consider the relative merits of the accounts put forth by Bach and Soames. Upon doing so, I argue that MA is not as decisive against description theories as it has long been thought to be. In fact, NDT seems to provide a better account of our uses of proper names than the rigid designation thesis as presented by Kripke and Soames.
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O'Connor, Peggy A. "Construction of mathematical meaning in a 6th grade classroom : an analysis of modal auxiliaries in teacher interrogatives across the teaching of fractions and geometry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0021/NQ44537.pdf.

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Delattre, Alain. "Signification et nécessité : une étude de sémantique et de logique des modalités : traduction de : Meaning and necessity a study in semantics and modal logic [Rudolf Carnap]." Lille 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988LIL30011.

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Merli, David Allen. "Moral disagreement and shared meaning." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1069868437.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 277 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
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Sosa, Nicholas. "Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places: The Search for Meaning After Direct and Indirect Meaning Compensation." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1486982633785334.

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Pozzebon, Edna Alves dos Santos. "Partículas modais da língua alemã em materiais didáticos para aprendizes iniciantes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8144/tde-26062017-084505/.

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Com o objetivo de investigar as partículas modais da língua alemã presentes em materiais didáticos de ensino de alemão como língua estrangeira (ALE) destinados a aprendizes iniciantes, realizamos uma pesquisa empírica a partir das séries Deutsch als Fremdsprache 1A Stufen International, Studio D e a fim de verificar: quais partículas são apresentadas e quais funções comunicativas (com base em Helbig, 1990) elas exercem nas interações representadas nos materiais em questão. As ocorrências foram também analisadas com relação aos tipos de foco propostos por Long (1989; 1991). Verificamos, ainda, quais os tipos de atividades e/ou exercícios propostos nesses materiais em que tais partículas estão inseridas. No corpus, foram identificadas 17 partículas modais ou conjuntos de partículas, com um total de 617 ocorrências. As cinco partículas com maior número de ocorrência são: denn (32%), doch (19%), mal (15%), ja (10%) e eigentlich (7%). A partir da análise das situações comunicativas propostas nos materiais do corpus, desenvolvemos um elenco de 31 funções, no qual destacam-se aquelas expressas por denn, doch, mal e ja, evidenciando sua importância desde os primeiros passos na língua. No corpus, as partículas modais são utilizadas principalmente para expressar cortesia e atenuação, para fazer valer a vontade do falante diante de seu interlocutor, ou, ainda, para direcionar o interlocutor ao consenso desejado pelo falante. No que se refere aos tipos de exercícios nos quais as partículas estão inseridas, a totalidade deles é mecânica/reprodutiva nos volumes relativos ao nível A do Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência (QECR) para Línguas. Dessa forma, fica clara a importância da exposição às partículas modais desde o início da aprendizagem do alemão como LE, ainda que não de forma produtiva. Os resultados da análise mostram que tanto materiais comunicativos quanto não comunicativos abordam o tema a partir do foco no significado, no qual a atenção do aprendiz é deslocada para esse significado sem se deter na forma, excluindo-se o ensino formal da gramática, que é aprendida implícita e incidentalmente. A partir dessa constatação, pode-se inferir que os três materiais, em princípio, reconhecem que as partículas modais são importantes para a comunicação autêntica, mas que não necessariamente precisam ser trabalhadas pelo professor.
In order to investigate the modal particles of the German language presented in teaching materials of German as a foreign language for beginners, we conducted an empirical research on the series Deutsch als Fremdsprache IA, Stufen international and Studio D, in order to verify which particles are presented and which communicative functions (based on Helbig 1990) they exert on the interactions represented in the materials in question. The occurrences were also analyzed in relation to the types of focus proposed by Long (1989; 1991), as well as the types of proposed activities and / or exercises in which such particles are inserted. In the corpus, 17 modal particles or sets of particles were identified, with a total of 617 occurrences. The five particles with highest occurrence are: denn (32%), doch (19%), mal (15%), ja (10%) and eigentlich (7%). From the analysis of the communicative situations presented in the corpus materials, we developed a set of 31 functions, in which those expressed by denn, doch, mal and ja stand out, evidencing their importance from the first steps in the language. In the analyzed materials, the modal particles are mainly used to express courtesy and attenuation, to assert the will of the speaker in relation to his interlocutor, or even to direct the interlocutor to the consensus desired by the speaker. Regarding the type of exercises in which the particles are inserted, its totality is of the mechanical / reproductive type in the volumes referring to level A of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). Thus, it is clear the importance of exposure to the modal particles from the beginning of the learning of German as a foreign language, even though in a non-productive way. The results of the analysis show that both communicative and non-communicative materials approach the theme from the focus on meaning, in which the attention of the learner is shifted to meaning without dwelling on form, excluding formal grammar teaching, which is learned implicitly and incidentally. From this observation, on can infer that the three materials, in principle, recognize that the modal particles are important for authentic communication, but do not necessarily need to be actively approached by the teacher.
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Books on the topic "Modal meaning"

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Karagjosova, Elena. The meaning and function of German modal particles. Saarbrucken: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, DKFI, 2004.

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Moral dimensions: Permissibility, meaning, blame. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Wildgen, Wolfgang. Process, image, and meaning: A realistic model of the meanings of sentences and narrative texts. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1994.

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Shultz, George Pratt. The meaning of Vietnam. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985.

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Shultz, George Pratt. The meaning of Vietnam. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985.

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Shultz, George Pratt. The meaning of Vietnam. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985.

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Wuthnow, Robert. Meaning and moral order: Explorations in cultural analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

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Wuthnow, Robert. Meaning and moral order: Explorations in cultural analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

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Well-being: Its meaning, measurement, and moral importance. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.

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Well-being: Its meaning, measurement, and moral importance. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Modal meaning"

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Cushing, Steven. "Explaining a missing modal meaning." In Levels of Linguistic Adaptation, 19. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.6.2.03cus.

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Bar-Elli, Gilead. "A Fregean Look at Kripke’s Modal Notion of Meaning." In Naming, Necessity, and More, 129–47. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400932_6.

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Sawada, Osamu. "The Projection of Not-at-issue Meaning via Modal Support: The Meaning and Use of the Japanese Counter-Expectational Adverbs." In New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 122–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50953-2_10.

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Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka. "Universal Free Choice from Concessive Copular Conditionals in Tibetan." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62843-0_2.

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AbstractI describe the expression of free choice in Tibetan, which involves the combination of a wh-word, copula, conditional morphology, and a scalar ‘even’ particle. I demonstrate that the conventional semantics of these ingredients successfully combine to derive universal free choice meaning. This motivates a new approach to the compositional semantics of universal free choice, which does not prescribe its universal force. This quantificational force is parasitic on the modal/temporal operator which is restricted by the conditional; the scalar ‘even’ particle then ensures that the conditional restricts a necessity modal.
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Skidelsky, Edward, and Robert Skidelsky. "The Meaning of Money." In Are Markets Moral?, 103–43. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137472748_5.

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Forrester, Mary Gore. "The Meaning of ‘Ought’ — A Formal Scheme." In Moral Beliefs and Moral Theory, 37–60. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9994-8_2.

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Cavanagh, Stephen J. "The Meaning of Nursing." In Orem’s Model in Action, 3–32. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11909-7_1.

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Wang, Tangjia. "Ritual: Meaning and Recognition." In Ritual and the Moral Life, 89–104. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2756-4_6.

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Zhai, Zhenming. "Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity." In The Radical Choice and Moral Theory, 91–133. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0501-9_4.

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Cordner, Christopher. "Altruism and Moral Meaning." In Ethical Encounter, 45–60. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230509177_3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Modal meaning"

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Thomason, Jesse, and Raymond J. Mooney. "Multi-Modal Word Synset Induction." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/575.

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A word in natural language can be polysemous, having multiple meanings, as well as synonymous, meaning the same thing as other words. Word sense induction attempts to find the senses of polysemous words. Synonymy detection attempts to find when two words are interchangeable. We combine these tasks, first inducing word senses and then detecting similar senses to form word-sense synonym sets (synsets) in an unsupervised fashion. Given pairs of images and text with noun phrase labels, we perform synset induction to produce collections of underlying concepts described by one or more noun phrases. We find that considering multi-modal features from both visual and textual context yields better induced synsets than using either context alone. Human evaluations show that our unsupervised, multi-modally induced synsets are comparable in quality to annotation-assisted ImageNet synsets, achieving about 84% of ImageNet synsets' approval.
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ERIN BROWN, J. "COORDINATED MULTI-MODAL EXPRESSION AND EMBODIED MEANING IN THE EMERGENCE OF SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814295222_0052.

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Jia, Chengnan. "A Study on the Syntactic and Semantic Meaning of the Epistemic Modal Adverb qMeizhunrq." In 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.171.

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Ahishakiye, Emmanuella. "Cross-modal Perception in Kirundi." In 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (SAIM 2021). AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2021.111007.

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Languages do not always use specific perception words to refer to specific senses. A word from one sense can metaphorically express another physical perception meaning. For Kirundi, findings from a corpus-based analysis revealed a cross-modal polysemy and a bidirectional hierarchy between higher and lower senses. The attested multisensory expression of auditory verb kwûmva ‘hear’ allows us to reduce sense modalities to two –vision and audition. Moreover, the auditory experience verb kwûmva ‘hear’ shows that lower senses can extend to higher senses through the use of synaesthetic metaphor (e.g. kwûmva akamōto ‘lit:hear a smell’/ururírīmbo ruryōshé ‘lit: a tasty song’/ururirimbo ruhimbâye ‘lit: a pleasant song). However, in collocations involving emotion words, it connects perception to emotion (e.g.; kwûmva inzara ‘lit: hear hunger’, kwûmva umunêzēro ‘lit: hear happiness’). This association indicates that perception in Kirundi gets information from both internal and external stimuli. Thus, considering feelings as part of the perception system.
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Lengani, Davide, Thorsten Selic, Rosario Spataro, Andreas Marn, and Emil Göttlich. "Analysis of the Unsteady Flow Field in Turbines by Means of Modal Decomposition." In ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2012-68582.

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This paper presents the results of a modal decomposition method applied to the time resolved data of two different test turbines. The analysis is carried out on the measurements performed by fast response aerodynamic pressure probes as well as on CFD simulations. As shown in the earlier aeroacoustic theory, a plurality of rotating patterns, also called spinning modes, are generated by the rotor-stator interactions. The modes may be computed from the flow quantities, such as total pressure, velocity and flow angles, through Fourier decompositions performed in time and space. The deterministic unsteadiness is then simplified to a limited number of Fourier coefficients. At a fixed radial position, circumferential lobes are identified for any multiple of the blade passing frequency. Therefore, the flow may be described as the superposition of rotating patterns, the spatial characteristics of which are correlated to the linear combinations of blade/vane number. This analysis has been applied to a one and a half stage low pressure turbine and to a two-stage counter-rotating transonic turbine. In the former test case there is a limited number of modes that characterize the flow field. Hence, the decomposition in modes simplifies considerably the evaluation of the sources of unsteadiness and deterministic stresses. The second test case presents more complex interactions. In fact, the presence of two rotors induces oscillations at frequencies that corresponds to the linear combinations of the two blade passing frequencies. Circumferential modes are identified for the most characteristic frequencies and their physical meaning is discussed.
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Philippe, Jonathan, Fabrice Thouverez, Laurent Blanc, and Marion Gruin. "Numerical Application of Double Modal Synthesis to an Industrial Mistuned Clustered Stator Vane and Experimental Validation." In ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2016-57640.

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Bladed disks are subjected to dynamically fluctuating high-pressure loads. To ensure their robust design, current models must be continuously improved to take phenomena such as mistuning into account. Geometric and material dispersions imply some mistuning effects, which result in both the loss of cyclic symmetry properties and a vibratory response amplification in frequency ranges of high modal density. These conditions complicate the prediction of vibratory behavior, causing high modal density and extreme sensitivity to mistuning. It becomes thus even more essential to maintain structural strength and prevent fatigue. In a first section, a substructuring method has been adopted to reduce finite elements models. It has been applied on an industrial stator vane model. This reduction method is a double modal synthesis based on Craig-Bampton method coupled to a static modes basis reduction through a second modal synthesis. This method yields excellent results and allows dividing computation costs roughly by a five hundred factor. Thanks to an appropriate choice of substructures it is then possible to generate thousands of mistuning configurations and compute them. Thus, 50,000 mistuning draws have been performed, covering a range of 5% maximum variation of blades and platforms Young modulus with a significant statistical meaning. A virtual modal characterization of the industrial stator vane has finally been made in a context of statistical treatment. In a second section, a modal identification has been performed on an industrial stator vane. The part has been subjected to white noise excitation and frequency response functions vibrations have been obtained through scanning vibrometer measurements. The numerical model has then been adjusted, matching whole system modes as they are less or not subjected to misutning. Experimental results have finally been compared to the readjusted statistical modal characterization previously computed. What stands out from this comparison is that most modal frequencies of the industrial stator vane used for experimental analyses are in the envelope predicted by statistical calculation.
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Collier, William. "A Consistent Structural Damping Model for Integrated and Superelement Modelling of Offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures in Wind Turbine Design Software Bladed." In ASME 2019 2nd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/iowtc2019-7541.

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Abstract In aero-elastic simulation of offshore wind turbines, the support structure can be modelled using an “integrated” approach, where the jacket and tower and modelled explicitly as one structural body, or a “superelement” approach, where the jacket part of the support structure is included as a superelement. For integrated modelling, vibration mode shapes are calculated for the whole support structure. For a superelement approach, separate mode shapes are defined for superelement and the tower. The different modal basis makes it difficult to align the structural damping definition for the two approaches, meaning that manual tuning of the modal damping ratios has previously been necessary to achieve equivalent damping on the whole support structure for the two approaches. To provide a consistent damping approach, it is proposed to specify modal damping ratios or Rayleigh damping on a modal basis which is common to the two approaches: the support structure natural mode shapes. When damping is specified on the natural modes of the support structure, equivalent support structure damping is observed for superelement and integrated modelling approaches. This allows the target support structure damping ratios to be achieved easily and also facilitates studies to compare the superelement and integrated modelling approaches.
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Lenzi, Sara, and Francesca Gleria. "Humanising Data through Sound: Res Extensae and a User-Centric Approach to Data Sonification." In The 24th International Conference on Auditory Display. Arlington, Virginia: The International Community for Auditory Display, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2018.003.

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In this paper, starting from a case study (the mixed-media data sonification installation Res Extensae), we discuss a number of assumptions on the efficacy of sound as a means to represent and communicate numerical data. The discussion is supported by the results of a questionnaire aimed at validating our assumptions and conducted with fifteen of the participants to the experience. At the same time, we have the ambition to contribute to a wider debate on the value of data sonification. We introduce the first stage of a research on sonification as a design-driven, user-centred and multi-modal experience, in that closer to data design practices rather than to traditional composition and computer music. We describe the usage of physical objects to help users to put sounds and data into a wider context, improving the user experience and facilitating the comprehension and retention of the meaning of data.
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Han, Zipeng, Gregory N. Morscher, Emmanuel Maillet, Manigandan Kannan, Sung R. Choi, and Frank Abdi. "Electrical Resistance and Acoustic Emission During Fatigue Testing of Pristine and High Velocity Impact SiC/SiC Composites at Room and Elevated Temperature." In ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2016-56507.

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Electrical resistance (ER) is a relatively new approach for real-time monitoring and evaluating damage in SiC/SiC composites for a variety of loading conditions. In this study, ER of woven silicon carbide fiber-reinforced silicon carbide composite systems in their pristine and impacted state were measured under cyclic loading conditions at room and high temperature (1200C). In addition, modal acoustic emission (AE) was also monitored, which can reveal the occasion of matrix cracks and fiber. ER measurement and AE technique are shown in this study to be useful methods to monitor damage and indicate the failure under cyclic loading. Based on the slope of the ER evolution, an initial attempt has been made to develop a method allowing a critical damage phase to be identified. While the physical meaning of the critical point is not yet clear, it has the potential to allow the failure to be indicated at its early stage.
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Liu, Pengfei, Xipeng Qiu, and Xuanjing Huang. "Adaptive Semantic Compositionality for Sentence Modelling." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/567.

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Representing a sentence with a fixed vector has shown its effectiveness in various NLP tasks. Most of the existing methods are based on neural network, which recursively apply different composition functions to a sequence of word vectors thereby obtaining a sentence vector.A hypothesis behind these approaches is that the meaning of any phrase can be composed of the meanings of its constituents.However, many phrases, such as idioms, are apparently non-compositional.To address this problem, we introduce a parameterized compositional switch, which outputs a scalar to adaptively determine whether the meaning of a phrase should be composed of its two constituents.We evaluate our model on five datasets of sentiment classification and demonstrate its efficacy with qualitative and quantitative experimental analysis .
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Reports on the topic "Modal meaning"

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Carroll, Edward, Jason Jarosz, Carlos Tafoya, Jonathan Compton, and Cengiz Akinli. Retaining Systems Engineering Model Meaning Through Transformation: Demo 2. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1770261.

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Lyzanchuk, Vasyl. COMMUNICATIVE SYNERGY OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL VALUES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN HYBRID WAR. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11077.

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The author characterized the Ukrainian national values, national interests and national goals. It is emphasized that national values are conceptual, ideological bases, consolidating factors, important life guidelines on the way to effective protection of Ukraine from Russian aggression and building a democratic, united Ukrainian state. Author analyzes the functioning of the mass media in the context of educational propaganda of individual, social and state values, the dominant core of which are patriotism, human rights and freedoms, social justice, material and spiritual wealth of Ukrainians, natural resources, morality, peace, religiosity, benevolence, national security, constitutional order. These key national values are a strong moral and civic core, a life-giving element, a self-affirming synergy, which on the basis of homogeneity binds the current Ukrainian society with the ancestors and their centuries-old material and spiritual heritage. Attention is focused on the fact that the current problem of building the Ukrainian state and protecting it from the brutal Moscow invaders is directly dependent on the awareness of all citizens of the essence of national values, national interests, national goals and filling them with the meaning of life, charitable socio-political life. It is emphasized that the missionary vocation of journalists to orient readers and listeners to the meaningful choice of basic national values, on the basis of which Ukrainian citizens, regardless of nationality together they will overcome the external Moscow and internal aggression of the pro-Russian fifth column, achieve peace, return the Ukrainian territories seized by the Kremlin imperialists and, in agreement will build Ukrainian Ukraine.
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