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Intentions in Communication

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1992

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Data Curation Standards and Social Science Occupational Information Resources

International Journal of Digital Curation, 2007

Occupational information resources - data about the characteristics of different occupational pos... more Occupational information resources - data about the characteristics of different occupational positions - are widely used in the social sciences, across a range of disciplines and international contexts. They are available in many formats, most often constituting small electronic files that are made freely downloadable from academic web pages. However there are several challenges associated with how occupational information resources are distributed to, and exploited by, social researchers. In this paper we describe features of occupational information resources, and indicate the role digital curation can play in exploiting them. We report upon the strategies used in the GEODE research project (Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment1). This project attempts to develop long-term standards for the distribution of occupational information resources, by providing a standardized framework-based electronic depository for occupational information resources, and by providing a data inde...

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Enabling Quantitative Data Analysis Through e-Infrastructure

Social Science Computer Review, 2009

This article discusses how quantitative data analysis in the social sciences can engage with and ... more This article discusses how quantitative data analysis in the social sciences can engage with and exploit an e-Infrastructure. We highlight how a number of activities that are central to quantitative data analysis, referred to as ‘‘data management,’’ can benefit from e-Infrastructural support. We conclude by discussing how these issues are relevant to the Data Management through e-Social Science (DAMES) research Node, an ongoing project that aims to develop e-Infrastructural resources for quantitative data analysis in the social sciences.

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Data curation standards and the messy world of social science occupational information resources

Occupational information resources-data about the characteristics of different occupational posit... more Occupational information resources-data about the characteristics of different occupational positions-play a unique role in social science research. They are of relevance across diverse research disciplines and in numerous disparate contexts. They are also very widely available, typically freely downloadable from academic web-pages. But they are also one of the most uncoordinated types of information resource that social scientists routinely come across. In this paper we describe issues in curating occupational information resources during the GEODE research project (Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment, http:/www.geode.stir.ac.uk). This project attempts to develop long-term standards for the distribution of occupational information resources, by providing a standardised framework electronic depository for occupational information resources, and by providing a data-indexing service, based on eScience middleware, which collates occupational information resources and makes them readily accessible to nonspecialist social scientists.

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Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser Mental spaces in grammar: Conditional constructions

Functions of Language, 2008

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Integration, Authenticity, and Relevancy in College Science through Engineering Design

Frank Moore (1933–2017)

Neutron News, 2018

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Semantics ... is a perfectly respectable linguistic study (Bazell 1953:89)

Semantics vs. pragmatics

1997 Installment, 1999

Tuija Virtanen, 1992. Discourse Functions of Adverbial Placement in English: Clause- Initial Adverbials of Time and Place in Narratives and Procedural Place Descriptions

Studies in Language, 1995

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On 'Pragmatic considerations in semantic analyses

Pragmatics & Cognition, 1997

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Remarks on conditionals in context

Annals of the University of Craïova, 2003

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The principal principles of pragmatic inference: politeness

Language Teaching, 1996

State of the art: Pragmatic inference conversational code-switching and the theory of politeness.

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Doing Pragmatics by Peter Grundy, 1995, Edward Arnold, London/New York, pp. vii + 216, ISBN 0 340 62514 7

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 1996

The advice was very timely, and adventurous and suitably qualified linguists had the means to the... more

Dispersal and recruitment dynamics in the fleshy-fruited Persoonia lanceolata (Proteaceae)

Journal of Vegetation Science, 2007

What is the role of dispersal, persistent soil seed banks and seedling recruitment in population ... more What is the role of dispersal, persistent soil seed banks and seedling recruitment in population persistence of fleshy-fruited obligate seeding plant species in fire-prone habitats? Location: Southeastern Australia. Methods: We used a long-term study of a shrubby, fleshy-fruited Persoonia species (Proteaceae) to examine (1) seed removal from beneath the canopy of adult plants; (2) seedling recruitment after fire; (3) the magnitude and location of the residual soil seed bank; and (4) the implications for fire management of obligate seeding species. We used demographic sampling techniques combined with Generalised Linear Modelling and regression to quantify population changes over time. Results: Most of the mature fruits (90%) on the ground below the canopy of plants were removed by Wallabia bicolor (Swamp wallaby) with 88% of seeds extracted from W. bicolor scats viable and dormant. Wallabies play an important role in moving seeds away from parent plants. Their role in occasional long distance dispersal events remains unknown. We detected almost no seed predation in situ under canopies (< 1%). Seedling recruitment was cued to fire, with post-fire seedling densities 6-7 times pre-fire adult densities. After fire, a residual soil seed bank was present, as many seeds (77-100%) remained dormant and viable at a soil depth where successful future seedling emergence is possible (0-5 cm). Seedling survival was high (> 80%) with most mortality within 2 years of emergence. Plant growth averaged 17 cm per year. The primary juvenile period of plants was 7-8 years, within the period of likely return fire intervals in the study area. We predicted that the study population increased some five-fold after the wildfire at the site. Conclusions: Residual soil seed banks are important, especially in species with long primary juvenile periods, to buffer the populations against the impact of a second fire occurring before the seed bank is replenished.

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Real Conditionals

Journal of Pragmatics, 2002

The syntactic, semantic and pragmatic facts of conditional sentences have, for a long time, been ... more

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Seana Coulson, Semantic leaps: frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+304

Journal of Linguistics, 2003

At a recent conference a colleague described a conversation that he had had with a high school st... more At a recent conference a colleague described a conversation that he had had with a high school student. The student proclaimed, with an obvious sense of satisfaction and excitement, that he had recently completed Mark Baker's Atoms of language; he then asked somewhat more sheepishly, as though he might be probing more deeply than should be done in polite company, 'Do YOU believe in parameters?' The student's reaction nicely captures three notable qualities of Baker's book. First, Baker has authored a monograph that is eminently readable, even for the novice in linguistics. Second, the content of the book is sufficiently intricate and well discussed that the book is a satisfying intellectual experience (and this even for the professional linguist). Finally, while Baker succeeds in raising some of the Big Questions that lie beneath structural similarities and variations in language, he falls short of providing an apologetic strong enough to sway skeptics to his linguistic worldview. Undoubtedly, he will also cause some offense to readers who already believe very differently about how linguists should begin to confront the Big Questions. Baker identifies a core task of modern linguistics (perhaps the core task?) to be solving the 'Code Talker Paradox'. The paradox, simply stated, is: How is it possible that a language such as Navajo can be similar enough to English to translate and transmit complicated messages, yet be so dissimilar from Japanese (or English for that matter) that the use of Navajo by American forces in World War II baffled Japanese cryptographers ? Baker is optimistic that a decipherment of the paradox is made possible by applying the concept of a parameter, i.e. a structural variable which is found in all languages and which can have one of two values in a particular language. For example, the NULL SUBJECT PARAMETER governs whether overt subjects are required in a finite clause. Some languages have one value for the parameter such that subjects are required (e.g. English). All other languages will carry the opposite value for this parameter such that subjects need not be expressed overtly (e.g. Italian). With a full complement of parameters, rather significant morpho-syntactic differences, even on the order of what distinguishes Navajo and Japanese, can arise between languages. On the other hand, since the parameters are constant across languages, and are presumably coupled together with other universal principles of language structure, there is also an account of the commensurability of languages. Paradox resolved. Of course, this is not a new idea in linguistics; rather, it is a well-articulated version of Principles & Parameters Theory, which can be traced back two decades (Chomsky 1981). What is novel about The atoms of language is that the concept of parameters is given more thorough treatment here than in any other previous work that comes to mind. Not only does Baker gather together putative parameters that have been individually proposed in the literature (from both formalist and functionalist sources), he also explores the relationships which obtain among them. Baker makes five crucial assumptions about parameters and how they interact to determine language structure: 1) the overall number of parameters is a small proportion of observable differences in languages because 2) a series of consequences for language structure can be traced to a single parameter; thus, 3) knowing the value for a particular parameter allows the linguist to make a set of predictions about what the morpho-syntax of a language will look like. 4) Parameters are not independent properties of language, but form a hierarchical system with some parameters being logically prior to others. Therefore, the settings for some parameters will determine whether other parameters are relevant or irrelevant. 5) Logically prior parameters will be learned first.

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End-of-the-Year Projects and New Possibilities

Journal of Chemical Education, 1995

Brief Reports 399 infected patients. It is not surprising that B. henselae would be a common infe... more Brief Reports 399 infected patients. It is not surprising that B. henselae would be a common infection in Bahrain as cats are the most common household pets in this country; cats are risk factors for both cat-scratch disease and the more aggressive forms of B. henselae infection in immunocompromised hosts [2, 3].

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W x= D (S, H)+ P (H, S)+ R x (notes towards an investigation)

Revue de sémantique et pragmatique, 2003

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G. N. Hawker, The Parliament of New South Wales

Australian Journal of Public Administration, 1972

Intentions in Communication

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1992

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Data Curation Standards and Social Science Occupational Information Resources

International Journal of Digital Curation, 2007

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