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Semantic Structure in English
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Semantic Structure in English

Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways, we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures.
 
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Tags: structure, conceptual, phonology, semantic, sentences
The Varieties of Self-Knowledge
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The Varieties of Self-Knowledge

This book explores the idea that self-knowledge comes in many varieties. We “know ourselves” through many different methods, depending on whether we attend to our propositional attitudes, our perceptions, sensations or emotions. Furthermore, sometimes what we call “self-knowledge” is not the result of any substantial cognitive achievement and the characteristic authority we grant to our psychological self-ascription is a conceptual necessity, redeemed by unravelling the structure of several interlocking concepts.
 
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Tags: self-knowledge, psychological, self-ascription, conceptual, grant
Tourism and Archaeology
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Tourism and ArchaeologyTourism and Archaeology

The global popularity and lucrative potential of tourism has made sustainability a major concern for archaeologists, site managers, politicians, local communities, tourism officials, and other stakeholders. This book establishes new, interdisciplinary ground for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of sustainable thinking and practice. First, three teams of co-authors from both disciplines tackle key conceptual dilemmas: exploration vs. exploitation, education vs. entertainment, and cultural sensitivity vs. embeddedness.
 
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Tags: tourism, co-authors, disciplines, tackle, conceptual, Tourism, Archaeology, teams
Stories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and Enaction
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Stories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and EnactionStories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and Enaction

This book presents a complete reconsideration of the nature of narrative organization developed in the framework of a new and comprehensive approach to cognitive science: enaction. This new paradigm offers an understanding of human cognition based in the perception and sensory motor dynamics of an agent and a world. It argues that narrative is but one form of conceptual organization for human minds, the other being categorical organization.
 
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Tags: organization, human, narrative, argues, conceptual, Meaning, Stories
Where Metaphors Come From: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor
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Where Metaphors Come From: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including the situational, discourse, and conceptual-cognitive contexts) - although perhaps the dominant or crucial one.
 
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Tags: metaphor, which, conceptual, contexts, Where