Literal Meaning
Literal means and hidden meanings : a new analysis of skillful means
... The conclusion is fairly clear. When one sees that the dhamma is like a raft there is no reason for clinging to it. The ridiculous image of a man carrying a raft on dry land makes little room for misunderstanding. The ...
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Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Topic Models and Intensity of Emotions
... apart literal from figura- tive usage of the same expression in ...clear literal meaning; and of those with a literal meaning, on average around 40% of their usages are ...
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Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Vector Space Representations
... Despite the common belief that idioms are always idioms, potentially idiomatic expressions, such as hit the sack can appear in literal contexts. Fazly et al. (2009)’s analysis of 60 idioms from the British ...
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Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions
... distinguishing literal and non-literal us- age, we chose expressions for which we assumed that the literal meaning was not too ...a literal use in the corpus ...
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Construing contract clause : the literal rule
... Literal meaning is a simple exercise. All that the judge does is to give the words in the clauses their literal or plain English meaning. For example in the case of Brightside Mechanical & ...
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Sarcastic or Not: Word Embeddings to Predict the Literal or Sarcastic Meaning of Words
... a literal by a figurative mean- ing, which is usually the opposite of the original literal ...either literal or sar- castic. We call this the Literal/Sarcastic Sense Disambiguation (LSSD) ...
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Literal, Metphorical or Both? Detecting Metaphoricity in Isolated Adjective Noun Phrases
... non-literal meaning – they are strictly compositional – while others, ...metaphorical meaning (M) and phrases which occur in both interpreta- tions ...
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A connectionist account of the emergence of the literal metaphorical anomalous distinction in young children
... between literal and metaphorical similarity, based on an existing connectionist model of simple metaphor comprehension (Thomas & Mareschal, ...between literal and figurative statements within the MPC ...
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Lexical olfaction recruits olfactory orbitofrontal cortex in metaphorical and literal contexts
... the meaning of the ...and literal uses of olfaction terms, therefore adding to the literature on sensorimotor simulation during comprehension of abstract as well as concrete ...
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English Language- A Global Medium of Literal, Technical and Professional Communication
... In these days of globalization, it is explicit that English has become the universal language for literal, technical and professional communication. In spite of numerous cultural and traditional movements in ...
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A Corpus of Literal and Idiomatic Uses of German Infinitive Verb Compounds
... (2) Einmal schildert Grosz das Beispiel einer Frau na- mens Marissa Panigrosso, die in ihrem B¨uro im New Yorker World Trade Center nach dem Ein- schlag des ersten Flugzeugs am 11. September 2001 vom Schreibtisch ...
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Meaning Representation and Meaning Instantiation for Chinese Nominals
... which meaning is chosen, whether the word is ambiguous, polysemous, or ...Tuggy's meaning models were two ...between meaning and ...has meaning facets extending from it is shown to a light ...
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ON MEANING: LOCATING MEANING IN OBJECTIVIST FRAME WORKS
... Another example is this: Our brain has some neuronal firing when we see the known faces. But when it comes to abstract entities, we see that their existence is under debate. Even when their existence is granted, their ...
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Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings
... First of all, positive sentences, i.e., sentences con- taining true idioms, are in the blank region of Fig- ure 2, while negative ones, i.e., those containing literal phrases, are in both regions. Accordingly, the ...
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Meaning of Gravitation
... GFST gives non-singular cosmological models (no Big Bang), the generation of dark matter in the universe by virtue of the attractive gravitational field and an explanation of the “Meaning of Gravitation”. ...
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Meaning, What is It
... to meaning. In connection with meaning you can ask whether this or that meaning relates to the essence denoted, or if this or that can be verified in the real ...of meaning and real objects is ...
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Meaning as use
... the meaning is use platitude, and the explanatory meaning platitude, plays a role in our grasp of the communication ...explanatory meaning platitude hardly makes sense without the error and ...
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The meaning of milk
... Separation abounds in the milk industry whereby calf is separated from the cow, and milk is extracted from animals for human consumption.. Separation more broadly occurs between milk for[r] ...
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THE MEANING OF PROBABILITY
... For multistage probability problems, it is often impractical to list all possible outcomes using a tree diagram because the total number of possibilities may be too large.. In these cas[r] ...
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The Meaning of Equity
... The Meaning of By Gayle MacDonald Le prbent article offre un expose' sur Ia signification du mot N e'quite' dans le cadre des dispositions sur l'tgalite' contenues dans la Charte des droits et liberte[.] ...
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