Autore	Walton Douglas N
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1982
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (89 pages)
Disciplina	160
Collana	Pragmatics & beyond
Soggetto topico	Reasoning Relevance (Philosophy) Debates and debating Logic
ISBN	1-283-35955-3 9786613359551 90-272-8057-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	TOPICAL RELEVANCE IN ARGUMENTATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; 1. CONVERSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS OF IRRELEVANCE; 1.0 Objective of Study; 1.1 Dual Nature of Pragmatic Analysis; 1.2 Disputation Theory; 1.3 Standard Preconceptions o f Irrelevance; 1.4 Fallacies o f Emotional Distraction; 1.5 Ad Misericordiam Arguments; 1.6 A Contrastive Case Study; 1.7 The Ad Hominem Fallacy; 1.8 Relevant Answers to Questions; IMMIGRATION TIMOTHY LEARY: REASON ALLOWED TO ENTER CANADA; 1.9 A Second Case Study of Question-Relevance ENERGY SALE OF GASOLINE TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS 1.10 Function o f Questioning in Parliamentary Debate; 2. PROPOSITIONAL INFERENCES IN DISPUTATION; 2.0 Relevance in Games of Dialogue; 2.1 Refutation and Propositional Structure; 2.2 Classical Propositional Logic: Basic Elements; 2.3 Valid Arguments in Classical Logic; 2.4 Astounding Inferences in Classical Logic; 2.5 Relatedness Propositional Logic: Basic Elements; 2.6 Valid Arguments in Relatedness Logic; 2.7 The Astounding Inferences Revisited; 2.8 The Propositional Core of Disputation; 3. PARADOXES, SOPHISMS AND RELATEDNESS 3.0 The Meaning of Relatedness 3.1 Act-Sequences and Relatedness; 3.2 Subject-Matter Contents of Propositions; 3.3 Paradoxes and Astounding Inferences; 3.4 Missing Factors; 3.5 Needed Premises in Inferences; 3.6 Irrelevant Premises; 3.7. Pluralism of Concepts of Relevance; 3.8 Information Inclusion; 4. CRITICISMS OF IRRELEVANCE IN GAMES OF DIALOGUE; 4.0 Six Types of Criticisms of Irrelevance; 4.1 Varieties of Games; 4.2 Strong and Weak Refutation; 4.3 Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Games; 4.4 Misconception of Refutation; 4.5 Pertinence; 4.6 Question-Answer Relevance 4.7 Types of Questions and Answers 4.8 Rules o f Responding; 4.9 Types of Relevance Compared; 4.10 Conditionals in Disputation; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004
Descrizione fisica	xiii, 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Disciplina	418.02
Altri autori (Persone)	Orero, Pilar
Collana	Benjamins translation library ; 56
Soggetto topico	Doppiaggio cinematografico - Traduzione
ISBN	9027216622 1588115690
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991001821709707536

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (291 pages)
Disciplina	491.8/15
Altri autori (Persone)	Dimitrova-VulchanovaMila HellanLars
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory
Soggetto topico	Slavic languages, Southern - Syntax Slavic languages, Southern - Semantics
ISBN	1-283-17473-1 9786613174734 90-272-8386-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	TOPICS IN SOUTH SLAVIC SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION THE CLAUSAL STRUCTURE OF SOUTH SLAVIC; VERB MOVEMENT AND ECONOMY LAST RESORT; CONJUNCTION DOUBLING AND 'AVOID CONJUNCTION' PRINCIPLE; ON THE CONTRAST RELATION OF THE BALKAN LANGUAGES IN COMPARISON TO RUSSIAN AND GERMAN; THE SYSTEM OF AUXILIARIES IN BULGARIAN; AGAINST LONG HEAD MOVEMENT' LEXICAL INSERTION AND THE BULGARIAN AUXILIARY 'BE'; TENSE, ASPECT AND ASPECTUAL COMPOSITION; POSSESSORS IN THE BULGARIAN DP VSJAKO NACALO E TRUDNO TRAPS IN LESSON I IN THE SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGESON CLITIC DISPLACEMENT; FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE DP IN BOSNIAN*; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF LANGUAGES
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Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2003
Descrizione fisica	332 p
Disciplina	152.1/82
Altri autori (Persone)	HatwellYvette StreriArlette GentazEdouard
Collana	Advances in consciousness research
Soggetto topico	Touch - Psychological aspects Visual perception Perceptual-motor processes
ISBN	1-282-25535-5 90-272-5185-1 90-272-9638-3 9786612255359 1-4237-7229-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Touching for Knowing -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- List of Authors -- Introduction -- Part 1. Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception -- Part 2. Haptic perceptual exploration -- Part 3. Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations -- Part 4. Intermodal coordinations -- Part 5. Some practical applications for visually impaired people -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception -- General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions -- 1. Available information -- 1.1. From cutaneous and proprioceptive mechanoreceptors to somaesthetic cortex -- 1.2. The hypothesis of corollary discharges -- 2. General properties of the somaesthetic areas -- 2.1. Somatotropy, receptive fields and lateral inhibition -- 2.2. Neuron sensitivity -- 2.3. Column organization -- 3. Properties of the main cortical areas involved in cutaneous and haptic perception -- 3.1. The primary and secondary somaesthetic areas -- 3.2. The primary motor area -- 3.3. The posterior parietal and premotor areas -- 3.4. The prefrontal cortex and the limbic system -- 3.5. The question of general organization -- References -- Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions -- 1. The contribution of neuropsychology -- 1.1. Disorders in cutaneous perception -- 1.2. Disorders in haptic perception -- 1.3. The role of cerebral hemispheres in the control of cutaneous and haptic perceptions -- 2. The contribution of cerebral functional imagery -- 2.1. Cortical reorganization of somaesthetic areas in musicians and blind people -- 2.2. Cortical reorganization of the visual areas in blind people -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Haptic perceptual exploration. Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants -- 1. The early forms of the haptic exploration -- 2. The abilities of the oral haptic mode through the first months after birth -- 3. Touching by the hands to knowing -- 4. Haptic memory in infancy -- 5. Bimodal exploration and haptic abilities -- 6. Multimodal exploration and coordination between modalities -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults -- 1. Manual exploratory procedures and their consequences -- 1.1. Changes with age -- 1.2. The size of the haptic perceptual field and ``field effects'' -- 1.3. Manual exploration in spatial localization tasks -- 1.4. The use of gravitational cues -- 1.5. Kinetic effects: ``Dynamic touch'' -- 2. Haptic exploration in bimodal situations -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Handedness and manual exploration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Handedness in infancy -- 2.1. Motor asymmetries in infancy -- 2.2. Perceptual haptic asymmetries in infancy -- 3. Manual exploration and handedness in children -- 3.1. Motor skills and manual laterality -- 3.2. Perception and handedness -- 4. Handedness in adults -- 4.1. Motor skills and handedness -- 4.2. Perceptual skills and handedness -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations -- The haptic identification of everyday life objects -- 1. General processes of object recognition -- 2. The role of spatial information in visual and haptic object recognition -- 3. The availability of material information about objects from haptic exploration -- 4. The role of material properties in object representation -- 5. Contribution of material properties to object identification -- 6. Converging contributions of multiple properties -- 7. Top-down contributions -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties. 1. The perception of spatial properties -- 1.1. Shape -- 1.2. Orientation -- 1.3. Perception of the line parallelism -- 1.4. Length -- 1.5. Localization -- 2. The perception of material properties: Texture -- 3. Relations between properties -- 3.1. Analytic or global perception? -- 3.2. Dimensional preferences -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Haptic perceptual illusions -- 1. Introduction and history -- 2. The haptic horizontal-vertical illusion -- 3. Conclusion and future directions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The use of mental images in congenital blindness -- 3. Active and passive functions in mental images created in totally blindness condition -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Intermodal coordinations -- Intermodal relations in infancy -- 1. Visual-tactile coordination showing an intermodal relationship -- 1.1. The formation of reaching trajectory -- 1.2. Visual information interpreted by the hand -- 2. Intermodal transfer tasks -- 2.1. Intermodal transfer during the first semester after birth -- 2.2. Thinking with the hands: The unity of object partially occluded -- 2.3. Intermodal transfer during the second semester after birth -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Intermodal coordinations in children and adults -- 1. Intermodal matching -- 1.1. Evolution with age -- 1.2. Intramodal equivalences and intermodal transfer -- 2. Perceptual conflicts in simultaneous bimodal situations -- 2.1. Spatial conflicts -- 2.2. Texture conflicts -- 2.3. A statistical hypothesis for visual-tactual integration of information -- 3. Attention share in bimodal tasks -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates -- 1. The primate hand -- 2. Object manipulation -- 3. Tactile exploration -- 3.1. Learning sets -- 3.2. Intra- and inter- modal matching ability. 3.3. Manual exploratory procedures -- 4. Tactile exploration and manual lateralization -- 4.1. Manual preference in the tactile modality -- 4.2. Manual performance in the tactile modality -- 4.3. Manual preference, manual performance and manual exploratory procedures -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Some practical applications for visually impaired people -- Braille -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Issues in teaching and learning braille -- 3. Assessment -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art -- 1. Tactile maps -- 1.1. General map processing -- 1.2. How blind people use tactile maps -- 2. The identification and production of two-dimensional drawings -- 2.1. Drawings of usual objects -- 2.2. The graphic representation of perspective -- 3. The access of the blind to artistic representations and museums -- 3.1. Two-dimensional pictorial art publications -- 3.2. Discovering three-dimensional works in museums -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Sensory substitution -- 1. A review of sensory substitution devices -- 1.1. General functional principles -- 1.2. A non-exhaustive panorama -- 1.3. The results obtained with the TVSS -- 2. Sensory substitution: A double illusion -- 2.1. It is not a ``sensory'' substitution -- 2.2. It is not a sensory ``substitution'' -- 3. Defining the conditions of appropriation -- 3.1. Ergonomic constraints -- 3.2. Adaptation to real expectations -- 3.3. The importance of modes and protocols of learning -- 3.4. The ``intrinsic'' effectiveness of sensory substitution -- 4. Touch and sensory substitution -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Enriching braille -- 2.1. Electronics -- 2.2. Speech -- 2.3. Raised line images. 3. Electronic documents -- 3.1. Capacity and size -- 3.2. The reading interface -- 3.3. Standardizing the coding -- 3.4. Navigation tools -- 3.5. Internet -- 3.6. Economical aspects -- 4. Adapting documents -- 5. Conclusion -- References on the Web -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH (AiCR).
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Autore	Koerner E. F. K
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1978
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (247 p.)
Disciplina	410/.9
Altri autori (Persone)	RobinsR. H
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 3, Studies in the history of linguistics
Soggetto topico	Linguistics - Historiography
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-272-8654-X 1-283-09310-3 9786613093103
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; I. TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY TILL 1970 A STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORT; TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS 19th AND 20th CENTURY PARADIGMS; FOUR TYPES OF HISTORY WRITING IN LINGUISTICS; THE IMPORTANCE OF LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE PLACE OF HISTORY IN LINGUISTIC SCIENCE; II. APPRAISALS OF INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARS; HERMANNPAUL AND SYNCHRONIC LINGUISTICS JAN BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY: HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCEA MINOR FIGURE IN 19th-CENTURY FRENCH LINGUISTICS: A. DUFRICHE-DESGENETTES; ANIMADVERSIONS ON SOME RECENT CLAIMS REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEORG VON DER GABELENTZ AND FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE; III. TRENDS AND TRADITIONS IN LINGUISTICS; BLOOMFIELDIAN LINGUISTICS AND THE PROBLEM OF ""MEANING"" A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY AND STUDY OF LANGUAGE; ZU URSPRUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG DES PHONEM - BEGRIFFS EINE HISTORISCHE NOTIZ; 1876 AS A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS ZU URSPRUNG UND GESCHICHTE DER BESTERNUNG IN DER HISTORISCHEN SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT EINE HISTORIOGRAPHISCHE NOTIZINDEX OF AUTHORS; The series Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456309103321