Russell y Strawson: una discusión sobre el actual rey de Francia

La tesis se centra en los artículos “On Denoting” y “On Referring” de Bertrand Russell y Peter Strawson respectivamente. Se afirma que Russell es consciente de la importancia del contexto y las circunstancias de enunciación de las oraciones.

Outlines of English grammar, a compilation of definitions and graduated sentences for the use of grammar school pupils,

Mode of access: Internet.

Hints and helps on English grammar. A discussion of difficulties found in hard sentences. For the use of private students and teachers of English grammar.

Mode of access: Internet.

Archaic words, phrases, etc., of Montgomeryshire.

Reprinted from Collections historical and archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire. Issued by the Powys-Land Club. v.6, pt.13, Oct. 1873.

Hobson-Jobson; a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive,

"List of fuller titles of books quoted in the glossary": p. xxvii-xlvii.

Progressive French dialogues and phrases : consisting of a systematic collection of conversations on familiar subjects and...select idioms and proverbs... /

Mode of access: Internet.

The uses of multilingualism in digital culture : the case of inter-language linking

Language-use has proven to be the most complex and complicating of all Internet features, yet people and institutions invest enormously in language and crosslanguage features because they are fundamental to the success of the Internet’s past, present and future. The thesis takes into focus the developments of the latter – features that facilitate and signify linking between or across languages – both in their historical and current contexts. In the theoretical analysis, the conceptual platform of inter-language linking is developed to both accommodate efforts towards a new social complexity model for the co-evolution of languages and language content, as well as to create an open analytical space for language and cross-language related features of the Internet and beyond. The practiced uses of inter-language linking have changed over the last decades. Before and during the first years of the WWW, mechanisms of inter-language linking were at best important elements used to create new institutional or content arrangements, but on a large scale they were just insignificant. This has changed with the emergence of the WWW and its development into a web in which content in different languages co-evolve. The thesis traces the inter-language linking mechanisms that facilitated these dynamic changes by analysing what these linking mechanisms are, how their historical as well as current contexts can be understood and what kinds of cultural-economic innovation they enable and impede. The study discusses this alongside four empirical cases of bilingual or multilingual media use, ranging from television and web services for languages of smaller populations, to large-scale, multiple languages involving web ventures by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Special Broadcasting Service Australia, Wikipedia and Google. To sum up, the thesis introduces the concepts of ‘inter-language linking’ and the ‘lateral web’ to model the social complexity and co-evolution of languages online. The resulting model reconsiders existing social complexity models in that it is the first that can explain the emergence of large-scale, networked co-evolution of languages and language content facilitated by the Internet and the WWW. Finally, the thesis argues that the Internet enables an open space for language and crosslanguage related features and investigates how far this process is facilitated by (1) amateurs and (2) human-algorithmic interaction cultures.

Use of Exocentric and Egocentric Representations in the Concurrent Planning of Sequential Saccades

The concurrent planning of sequential saccades offers a simple model to study the nature of visuomotor transformations since the second saccade vector needs to be remapped to foveate the second target following the first saccade. Remapping is thought to occur through egocentric mechanisms involving an efference copy of the first saccade that is available around the time of its onset. In contrast, an exocentric representation of the second target relative to the first target, if available, can be used to directly code the second saccade vector. While human volunteers performed a modified double-step task, we examined the role of exocentric encoding in concurrent saccade planning by shifting the first target location well before the efference copy could be used by the oculomotor system. The impact of the first target shift on concurrent processing was tested by examining the end-points of second saccades following a shift of the second target during the first saccade. The frequency of second saccades to the old versus new location of the second target, as well as the propagation of first saccade localization errors, both indices of concurrent processing, were found to be significantly reduced in trials with the first target shift compared to those without it. A similar decrease in concurrent processing was obtained when we shifted the first target but kept constant the second saccade vector. Overall, these results suggest that the brain can use relatively stable visual landmarks, independent of efference copy-based egocentric mechanisms, for concurrent planning of sequential saccades.

The acquisition of expository uses of language

Objective: This study offers a description of the kinds of linguistic aids offered by adults while giving explanations to young children about different issues. During the midst of these conversations children have several opportunities to learn, not only from objects and events, but also from the utterances used to refer to them, learning how realities are named after, and in many cases, how to participate in them. Methodology: Through the analysis of eleven minutes of interaction between young child and his maternal grandparents. Results: Adults offers young child different discursive ways for helping him to add information, organize and clarify the topic that he is talking about. Conclusions: The results allow to identify different ways that the adults use for helping young child to improve his explanations.

Allocentric and egocentric spatial impairments in a case of topographical disorientation

We describe a patient with a topographical disorientation after a stroke of the right mediotemporooccipital lobe including the parahippocampal cortex (PHC). Clinical observations and neuropsychological testing reveal an impairment of allocentric spatial representations as well as impairments of visuospatial learning and memory. These findings are in accordance with the well-known function of the PHC in topographical disorientation. As a new finding, results from oculomotor tasks show additional impairments of the egocentric spatial coordinate frame suggesting that in topographical disorientation due to a lesion of the right mediotemporooccipital lobe not only allocentric but also egocentric visuospatial functions are disturbed.

Further information respecting the aborigines; containing reports of the Committee on Indian Affairs at Philadelphia ... Together with some particulars relative to the natives of New Zealand, New Holland and Van Dieman's Land.

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The doctrine of universal restoration examined and refuted : and the objections to that of endless punishment considered and answered, being a reply to the most important particulars contained in the writings of Messrs. Winchester, Vidler, Wright, and Weaver /

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New mathematical tables containing the factors, squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, reciprocals, and hyperbolic logarithms, of all numbers from 1 to 10000; tables of powers and prime numbers; an extensive table of formulæ, or general synopsis of the most important particulars relating to the doctrines of equations, series, fluxions, fluents, &c. &c. &c.

Mode of access: Internet.

A complete body of husbandry; collected from the practice and experience of the most considerable farmers in Britain. Particularly setting forth the various ways of improving land ... To which is added several particulars relating to the preservation of the game; and stated accounts of the expence and profits of arable, pasture, meadow and wood lands. Adorn'd with cuts.

Title-page in red and black.