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8 results for "semantics"
ZG_1_18 — Sound Symbolism and Phonosemantics
Sound symbolism — the non-arbitrary association between speech sounds and meaning — challenges the foundational Saussurean principle that the relationship between a word's form and its meaning is entirely arbitrary (Ferd
ZG_3_05 — Language and Thought: Cognitive Semantics
The relationship between language and thought — whether the language we speak shapes, constrains, or determines how we perceive, categorize, and reason about the world — is one of the oldest and most debated questions in
ZG_3_10 — Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Compositional Analysis
Semantics — the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning — investigates how words, phrases, and sentences encode and convey meaning, how meanings combine compositionally, and how linguistic meaning relates to the wor
K_1_09 — Philosophical Zombies and the Hard Problem
The philosophical zombie (p-zombie) thought experiment, formalized by David Chalmers (1996), asks: Could there exist a being physically and functionally identical to a conscious human — identical atom for atom, processin
ZG_5_01 — Computational Linguistics and NLP
Computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP) are the interdisciplinary fields concerned with enabling computers to process, analyze, understand, and generate human language. CL originated in the 1
P_5_05 — Philosophy of Language
The philosophy of language asks: How do words and sentences get their meaning? How does language connect to reality? Can thought exist without language? Is meaning determined by the speaker's intention, by social convent
ZG_2_18 — Pragmatics & Speech Act Theory: Language in Context, Meaning Beyond Words
Pragmatics — the branch of linguistics concerned with how context, speaker intention, shared knowledge, and social relationships contribute to meaning beyond the literal semantic content of words — addresses a fundamenta
ZG_3_12 — Metaphor Theory: Lakoff, Blending, and Figurative Language as Cognition
Metaphor theory — the study of how figurative language works and what it reveals about human thought — underwent a revolutionary transformation in the late 20th century with the publication of George Lakoff and Mark John
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