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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458881503321

Autore

Covington Jeanette <1949->

Titolo

Crime and racial constructions [[electronic resource] ] : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia / / Jeanette Covington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-49593-3

9786612495939

0-7391-4521-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

791.43089/96073

Soggetti

African Americans in motion pictures

African American women in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Racism in popular culture - United States

Crime and race - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crime and Racial Constructions; Contents; Introduction; Section I: IMAGES OF BLACK MALE CRIMINALITY IN MEDIA AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Chapter One: Black Images in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Chapter Two: Hollywood and Black Protest; Chapter Three: Black Violence, White Violence; Chapter Four: Making Race Matter; Chapter Five: Americanizing Black Violence; Section II: CINEMATIC AND ACADEMIC IMAGES OF BLACK FEMALE CRIMINALS AND VICTIMS; Chapter Six: Black Women on the Silver Screen; Chapter Seven: Black Women, Violence and Masculinization; Chapter Eight: Comforting Fictions; Bibliography; Index

About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in their effort to explain observed race differences in crime. Of particular concern is how the images they paint of violent, out-of-control blacks result in hardline criminal justice policies.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789207603321

Autore

Partee Barbara B.H

Titolo

Mathematical Methods in Linguistics [[electronic resource] /] / by Barbara B.H. Partee, A.G. ter Meulen, R. Wall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993

ISBN

94-009-2213-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 1993.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 666 pages)

Collana

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, , 0924-4662 ; ; 30

Disciplina

410.285

Soggetti

Computational linguistics

Logic

Language and languages—Philosophy

Computational Linguistics

Philosophy of Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Set Theory -- 1 Basic Concepts of Set Theory -- 2 Relations and Functions -- 3 Properties of Relations -- 4 Infinities -- B Logic and Formal Systems -- 5 Basic Concepts of Logic and Formal Systems -- 6 Statement Logic -- 7 Predicate Logic -- 8 Formal Systems, Axiomatization, and Model Theory -- C Algebra -- 9 Basic Concepts of Algebra -- 10 Operational Structures -- 11 Lattices -- 12 Boolean and Heyting Algebras -- D English As A Formal Language -- 13 Basic Concepts -- 14 Generalized Quantifiers -- 15 Intensionality -- E Languages, Grammars, and Automata -- 16 Basic Concepts -- 17 Finite Automata, Regular Languages and Type 3 Grammars -- 18 Pushdown Automata, Context Free Grammars and Languages -- 19 Turing



Machines, Recursively Enumerable Languages and Type 0 Grammars -- 20 Linear Bounded Automata, Context Sensitive Languages and Type 1 Grammars -- 21 Languages Between Context Free and Context Sensitive -- 22 Transformational Grammars -- Solutions to Selected Exercises -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Review problems, Part A -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- Review problems, Part B -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- Review problems, Part C -- 13 -- 14 -- 15 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 -- Appendix E-II -- Review problems, Part E.

Sommario/riassunto

Elementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and model theory. The section on algebra is presented with an emphasis on lattices as well as Boolean and Heyting algebras. Background for recent research in natural language semantics includes sections on lambda-abstraction and generalized quantifiers. Chapters on automata theory and formal languages contain a discussion of languages between context-free and context-sensitive and form the background for much current work in syntactic theory and computational linguistics. The many exercises not only reinforce basic skills but offer an entry to linguistic applications of mathematical concepts. For upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in theoretical linguistics, computer-science students with interests in computational linguistics, logic programming and artificial intelligence, mathematicians and logicians with interests in linguistics and the semantics of natural language.