Different Types Of Meaning Research Articles

The Meaning of “Meaning” from a Hermeneutic Point of View

AbstractWhat is the meaning of “meaning”, hermeneutically seen? How does the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer relate to the different types of meaning that are at hand in other branches of philosophy, such as sentence meaning within analytic philosophy, uttered meaning within speech acts theory and the communicative/dialogical meaning of formal/transcendental pragmatics? The comprehensive framework of Gadamer’s hermeneutics forms the horizon of understanding of this paper, and of specific interest is how these different types of meaning relate to the hermeneutic framework. Can a hermeneutical sense of meaning be elaborated in contrast to these different senses of meaning? Or, can these different types of meaning, in a certain sense, also be seen as compatible with the wider hermeneutical framework of meaning?

Examining the Impact of Industry Factors on Organizational Export Performance: The Mediating Role of Promotion Adaptation

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of Industry Factors on Organizational ExportPerformance and the Mediating Role of Promotion Adaptation in Malaysian firms involved in manufacturingand exporting products in foreign markets Results indicate that industry Factors has a significant impact onorganizational Export Performance under Promotion Adaptation in Malaysian firms involved in manufacturingand exporting products in foreign markets, Technology Intensity has a significant impact on organizationalExport Performance under Promotion Adaptation in Malaysian firms involved in manufacturing and exportingproducts in foreign markets and the Level of Competition has a significant impact on organizational ExportPerformance through Promotion Adaptation in Malaysian firms involved in manufacturing and exportingproducts in foreign markets. To achieve Superior performance and hold organizational Excellence, Malaysianfirms involved in manufacturing and exporting products in foreign markets must dealing and managing withcases of environmental changing to enhancement export organizational performance for their companies. Inaddition, Malaysian firms involved in manufacturing and exporting products in foreign markets must provisionsome flexibility in the completion of the tasks in light controls accuracy and objectivity at the same time toprovide different types of means to implementing the tasks.

L’ANALYSE SEMIOTIQUE DE LA NOUVELLE LES YEUX DE SOIE DE FRANÇOISE SAGAN (SEMIOTIC ANALYSE IN FRANÇOISE SAGAN’S THE EYES OF SILK)

This writing aims to reveal that behind women’s weakness and tenderness there is an invisible power that can overturn men’s domination. While care seems more effective to get women’s love and respect, men tend to rely on domination. This, in fact, does not always work. Semiotic is a kind of analysis used to uncover the meaning of signs in a text. In literature this analysis serves to show different types of meaning. In this novel, there is a couple - Jerome and Monica, and their friend - Stanislas. Jerome dominates and excels in everything. He spends time hunting wild animals and doing man’s other sports. Monica is a housewife who is thirsty of her husband’s attention. She makes an affair with Stanislas, her husband’s friend. One day Jerome takes Monica, Stanislas and another woman to deer-hunting. Later he finds out that there is something between her wife and Stanislas. Driven by jealousy, he decides to kill them both. The writer used semiotic analysis because there are many signs of syntagmatic and paradigmatic meanings to discover. Key words : sA©miotique, littA©rature

What kind of structure?—interpersonal meaning and prosodic realization across strata

The starting-point of this article is Halliday's view that different types of meaning are realized by different forms of grammatical organization: experiential meaning is typically represented by particulate structures, interpersonal meaning by prosodic structures, and textual meaning by periodic structures. The aim of this article is to further develop the claim that interpersonal meanings are prosodically organized. It is argued that the same strategies for expressing ‘appraisal’ operate at the level of discourse and at the levels of clause and nominal group. The strategies of ‘saturation’, ‘intensification’, and ‘dominance’ distribute interpersonal meanings ‘suprasegmentally’ across phases of discourse as well as in the clause and the nominal group. Within the strategy of ‘dominance’, ‘scope’ plays a central role: evaluations are seen as dominating and coloring the meanings in their scope. At the levels of clause and nominal group, this leads to a further distinction between three types of scoping strategies: interpersonal meanings can be localized as the ‘nub’ of the clause or group (as is the case with mood in English), as the ‘crest’ (having thematic prominence), or as the ‘logical head’ of the clause or group, with other elements hypotactically dependent on it (as is the case with modal metaphors such as I think).

A COMPARISON STUDY TO DETERMINE THE MEAN OF PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION FOR TRUTHFUL CHARACTERIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA (PART 1)

One of the most important steps in environmental studies is to get an accurate distribution of the pollutants in terms of its quantity and qualities. Some environmental studies are acquiring a good classification of the particle size including the average mean of the particle. Many researchers use the median size (x50) or until the size passing 80% cumulative undersize (x80) as a measure for evaluation of the particle size distribution resulted from different mineral processing operations such as crushing, grinding, classification, sedimentation, and/or solid-liquid separation or even during the study of the pollutant settlement. These measures are not so accurate to differentiate between different particle size distributions (PSDs) because many PSDs data sets may have the same values of x50 or x80 if these data sets are represented between the particle size, x and the cumulative undersize distribution, F (x). This paper is a trial to introduce a new methodology to determine the mean of a particle size distribution (MPSD) accurately using GatesGaudin-Schuhmann and Rosin-Rammler models. The value of this measure takes into consideration all particle sizes and their corresponding distributions. The results showed that the different PSD, which have the same values of median (x50) have different values of this measure, especially with Rosin-Rammler model. In this paper, the expressions of different types of means of a particle size distribution (arithmetic, quadratic, cubic, geometric, and harmonic) were derived mathematically using the two mentioned models. It is recommended to select RR model to be applied in estimation of the different means of a particle size distribution because it fits the available data better than the GGS model, as well as, it determines the correct values and exerts the actual differences between the different means of different particle size distribution data sets. This work will be continuing by demonstrating a case study using real environmental data in Part (2).

A View of Averaging Aggregation Operators

Aggregation operators have been used and studied for a long time. More than ten different types of means (including the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic ones) were already studied 2000 years ago. Nevertheless, this topic has gained relevance in recent years. This is partly due to the increasing need of methods and operators for fusing information within computer programs. In this paper, we will present a personal view of the field, focusing on the application issues and on averaging aggregation operators. We will point out some research topics and open lines for future research.

Science Teaching: What Does It Mean?

This study considers the relationship between science, science teaching and the philosophy of science perceiving these three cultural phenomena as a semantic triad. This approach presents science teaching as being a form of a scientific reflection. The relationship of science teaching to the philosophy of science is advocated to be essential, revealing the conceptual meaning of science in the science curriculum and thus removing the semantic degeneracy taking place when the philosophy of science is ignored in science education. The study points at the bricolage as well as magic nature of the science curriculum preserving as long as science teaching preserves semantic degeneracy. Different types of meaning of Schwab’s commonplaces were recognized. The study challenges the common view of the relationship between science, science teaching and pedagogy and suggests effective representation of individual knowledge of science educators.

Une théorie de l'élection de la cigarette comme monnaie

Apres mai 1945, avec le refus du Reichsmark dans les echanges, l’Allemagne bascule dans une economie de troc dont la monnaie cigarette est l’episode le plus emblematique. Dans cet article, nous proposons une etude historique et theorique des moyens de paiement de cette economie. Apres avoir indique la proximite entre les hypotheses des modeles de search et ce cas historique, nous construisons un modele donnant les conditions d’utilisation d’un bien comme monnaie marchandise.

Chain-length dependent termination in pulsed-laser polymerization, 4. The influence of the type of mean involved in the bimolecular termination step

The chain-length distribution (cld) of living and dead chains and their moments have been calculated by an iterative simulation procedure for pseudostationary laser-induced polymerization (without chain-transfer) assuming various types of means between the lenghts of the two chains involved in the termination process. The overall appearance of the cld is dramactically influenced by the type of mean: the stronger the influence of the shorter of the two chains the more prominent are the “extra-peaks” of the cld and the smaller the rate of polymerization. The different types of means are subject to different short-chain effects; in the long-chain limit, however, the correct exponent of the power law governing the chain-length dependence of kt is correctly recovered in all cases. The estimation of kt(1,1) works the better the less prominent is the role of the smaller chain. Because of its close proximity to the “diffusion mean” the geometric mean approximation – although unphysical – is proved to give an excellent qualitative and quantitative description of all effects associated with chain-length dependent termination.

Chain-length dependent termination in pulsed-laser polymerization, 4. The influence of the type of mean involved in the bimolecular termination step

The chain-length distribution (cld) of living and dead chains and their moments have been calculated by an iterative simulation procedure for pseudostationary laser-induced polymerization (without chain-transfer) assuming various types of means between the lenghts of the two chains involved in the termination process. The overall appearance of the cld is dramactically influenced by the type of mean: the stronger the influence of the shorter of the two chains the more prominent are the “extra-peaks” of the cld and the smaller the rate of polymerization. The different types of means are subject to different short-chain effects; in the long-chain limit, however, the correct exponent of the power law governing the chain-length dependence of kt is correctly recovered in all cases. The estimation of kt(1,1) works the better the less prominent is the role of the smaller chain. Because of its close proximity to the “diffusion mean” the geometric mean approximation – although unphysical – is proved to give an excellent qualitative and quantitative description of all effects associated with chain-length dependent termination.

Contributions to Psychohistory: XXI. Analysis of Conrad's Lord Jim's Life Meaning

Conrad's fictional character Jim's meaning in life is employed as an illustration of the application of DeVogler-Ebersole and Ebersole's scoring system for depth of meaning in life and their method for categorization of different types of meaning in life. Finally, the following issues are briefly covered: future research, an alternative conceptualization of Jim, and the failure of current measures of meaning in life depth to take into consideration the person's behavior.

Interpreting correlations between children's perceived control and cognitive performance: Control, agency, or means€nds beliefs?

The types of beliefs responsible for correlations between children's perceived control and cognitive performance were investigated in 180 2rid, 4th, and 6th graders. Children were interviewed for control beliefs regarding the attainment of desired goals, for agency beliefs regarding the accessibility of different types of means to the self, and for means-ends beliefs regarding the efficacy of different types of means. Cognitive performance variables included fluid and crystallized intelligence as well as short-term and recognition memory. Of the three types of beliefs, only agency beliefs were strongly and consistently related to cognitive performance. Correlations were greater than zero beginning in 4th grade, increased monotonically from 2rid to 6th grade, and occurred for all cognitive performance measures.

Depth of Meaning in Life: Explicit Rating Criteria

The present study is a development of a method of measuring meaning in life depth using outside judges' rating of the participants' in-depth statements describing their meaning. Adequate interrater agreement was obtained when five explicit depth of meaning criteria were utilized. The potential problem of rater bias because of the judges' preference for their own life meanings was discussed. In addition, three other issues previously investigated to some degree were again approached: whether a significant proportion of participants reported a feeling of meaninglessness (they did not), how many different types of meaning in life would be reported (an average of 4.26 were, implying that people do not prefer just one meaning in life), and what percentage of life meanings fell into each of the eight categories previously developed by DeVogler and Ebersole.

Expressing Doubt and Certainty in English

Learning to express and interpret epistemic modality (degrees of certainty) is not an easy task for learners of English as a second language. The paper discusses three sources of poten tial difficulty: the problem of establishing the precise degree of certainty expressed by particular linguistic forms; the range of linguistic devices available for signalling this aspect of meaning; and the interaction of different types of meaning in different contexts. Some suggestions are provided which may assist second language learners wishing to develop competence in expressing and interpreting degrees of certainty and conviction in English.