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Wieloznaczne słownictwo w chrystologii Nowego Testamentu

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Gryglewicz F.

The Biblical Annals

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1976

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vol. 23

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issue 1

17-27

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Es gibt in NT Worte, die verschiedene Tatsachen aus dem Leben Jesu beschreiben, wobei man nicht weiss an welche Tatsachen der Hagiograph gedacht hat, und auch solche Worte, die zwei oder drei Bedeutungen glechzeitig haben, die man nicht genau trennen kann. Diese vieldeutige Worte sind Widerhall der Schwierigkeiten mit denen die Urkirche und die neutestamentlich Verfasser kämpften um aus Mangel der eigentlichen theologischen Nomenklatur diesen Inhalt, der von Person und Lehre Jesu dargebracht ist, auszudrücken. Man adaptierte gemeinsam gebrauchte Worte und suchte neue, manchmal erfolglos. Dem ältesten christlichen Wortschatz gehören an: egeiro und anistemi - über die Mission Jesu, eleusis- über sine Fleischwerdung, und pais Theou. Aus späterem Zeitraum stammen: faneroo, epifaneia und auch didomi über die Mission Jesu. Das von Lukas (1, 79) im Benedictus-Hymnus gebrauchte Zeitwort epifaino kann als eine Grenze zwischen dem ältesten und dem späteren Zeitraum gesehen werden.

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Niedookreśloność znaczeniowa idiomów z perspektywy semantyki kognitywnej i jej implikacje dla frazeografii

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Sulikowska A.

Applied Linguistics Papers

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2018

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issue 25/3

61-77

EN

One of the most important and most complex research tasks within phraseology and phraseography is the description of the meaning of idioms. Idioms are, as seen from the semantic point of view, especially complicated language units. They contain a semantic added value which results from two aspects: (i) their ambiguity based on feedback between the literal and the lexicalized meaning, (ii) their polylexicality – their semantic derivations can occur on the level of the word group and also concern the individual elements. The aim of the article is to characterize the semantic potential of idioms and to try its explication.

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The learning teacher: role of ambiguity in education

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Suzawa G. S.

Journal of Pedagogy

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2013

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vol. 4

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issue 2

220-236

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Life is full of ambiguities, but as teachers we generally try to teach our students in a manner that sanitizes knowledge of all of its ambiguities. In doing so, we create an educational environment which forces students to learn in a rather meaningless fashion and this in turn leads to a lack of vitality and relevance within the academy. This need not be the case. As teachers, we should reflect on the epistemological foundations of our theories of learning and teaching and to closely examine how our teaching devices and techniques adhere to our theories. Furthermore, we need to be receptive to making any changes in our theories and teaching practice that may be warranted by the critical and creative thinking process that we apply to our professional activities. This paper attempts to guide readers through such a reflexive thinking process by trying to loosely establish a relationship between the deep concept of ambiguity (uncertainty) and some of our theories of learning via the acceptance of the view that the ultimate foundation of all human knowledge is ambiguity. We create and establish the meaning of all of our knowledge via a process of self-referencing logos. An implication of the application of self-referencing logic is the notion that a teacher can simultaneously learn and teach (“the learning teacher”). Thus, this can serve as the basis for developing the model of the “reflexive practitioner” in the teaching profession.

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Spectres of Ambiguity in Divergent Thinking and Perceptual Switching

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Taranu M., Loesche F.

Avant

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2017

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vol. 8

EN

Divergent thinking as a creative ability and perceptual switching between different interpretations of an unchanging stimulus (known as perceptual multistability) are thought to rely on similar processes. In the current study, we investigate to what extent task instructions and inherent stimulus characteristics influence participants' responses. In the first experiment, participants were asked to give as many interpretations for six images as possible. In the second experiment, participants reported which of two possible interpretations they saw at any moment for the same line drawings. From these two experiments, we extracted measures that allow us direct comparison between tasks. Results show that instructions have a large influence over the perception of images traditionally used in two different paradigms and that these images can be perceived in appropriate ways for both tasks. In addition, we suggest that the connection between the two phenomena can be explored interchangeably through three experimental manipulations: a) using a common set of images across both experiments, b) giving different task instructions for the two tasks, and c) extracting comparable metrics from both experimental paradigms.

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Ambiguity and the uncanny in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and its Polish translations

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Sowiński B.

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem

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2017

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vol. 35

23-35

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Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw poses an interpretative challenge to its researchers, readers, and translators. The unique character of the novelette, which is surrounded by the aura of the uncanny, is closely related to the ambiguous narrative and linguistic devices used by the author. Major interpretations of the text followed Gothic, Freudian, and metanarrative approaches. The paper sets out to investigate the extent to which the translations proposed by Witold Pospieszała and Jacek Dehnel adhere to any these approaches and whether and how they try to deal with the ambiguities that make James’s masterpiece so uncanny.

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Spectres of Ambiguity in Divergent Thinking and Perceptual Switching

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Taranu M., Loesche F.

Avant

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2017

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issue 8

EN

Divergent thinking as a creative ability and perceptual switching between different interpretations of an unchanging stimulus (known as perceptual multistability) are thought to rely on similar processes. In the current study, we investigate to what extent task instructions and inherent stimulus characteristics influence participants' responses. In the first experiment, participants were asked to give as many interpretations for six images as possible. In the second experiment, participants reported which of two possible interpretations they saw at any moment for the same line drawings. From these two experiments, we extracted measures that allow us direct comparison between tasks. Results show that instructions have a large influence over the perception of images traditionally used in two different paradigms and that these images can be perceived in appropriate ways for both tasks. In addition, we suggest that the connection between the two phenomena can be explored interchangeably through three experimental manipulations: a) using a common set of images across both experiments, b) giving different task instructions for the two tasks, and c) extracting comparable metrics from both experimental paradigms.

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Preference Relations in Ranking Multivalued Alternatives in Finance Using Stochastic Dominance

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Trzpiot G., Department of Statistics A. o. E.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica

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2004

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vol. 175

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This study used stochastic dominance tests for ranking alternatives under ambiguity, to build an efficient set of assets for a different class of investors. We propose a two-step procedure: first test for multivalued stochastic dominance and next calculate the value of preference relations.

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W artykule wykorzystano testy stochastycznej dominacji dla rangowanych hipotez alternatywnych w warunkach dwoistości w celu zbudowania efektywnego zbioru aktywów dla różnych klas inwestorów. Zaproponowano procedurę składającą się z dwóch kroków. Pierwszym jest test dla wielowartościowej dominacji stochastycznej. W następnym kroku obliczona jest wartość dla powiązań preferowanych.

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Uncertainty and Probability within Utilitarian Theory

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Baron J.

Diametros

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2017

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issue 53

6-25

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Probability is a central concept in utilitarian moral theory, almost impossible to do without. I attempt to clarify the role of probability, so that we can be clear about what we are aiming for when we apply utilitarian theory to real cases. I point out the close relationship between utilitarianism and expected-utility theory, a normative standard for individual decision-making. I then argue that the distinction between “ambiguity” and risk is a matter of perception. We do not need this distinction in the theory itself. In order to make this argument I rely on the personalist theory of probability, and I try to show that, within this theory, we do not need to give up completely on the idea that a “true probability” (other than 0 or 1) exists. Finally, I discuss several examples of applied utilitarianism, emphasizing the role of probability in each example: reasonable doubt (in law), the precautionary principle in risk regulation, charity, climate change, and voting.

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Niejednoznaczność wypowiedzi humorystycznych a kompetentne komunikowanie się

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Kucharski A.

Człowiek i Społeczeństwo

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2020

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vol. 50

EN

The aim of this paper was to discuss competent communication, specifically humorous statements containing ambiguity. Attention was brought to difficulties when deciding between informative and humorous manners of communication. It is not easy to differentiate between the two manners, which means we do not always adjust to the correct manner when speaking with our conversationalist. It brings special difficulties, when the communicator knowingly does not state what manner his speech should be received in. Farther, we cannot always form a phrase in a certain manner, even if the manner is known to us, which can lead to further issues in communication. Communication competency, including humour competency is not only the ability to understand and appreciate the humorous aspect in the message, but also the ability to formulate a humorous statement appropriate for the situation and to the aims raised by an individual.

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Realisation of Indirect Speech Acts in Online Job Advertisements

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Łącka-Badura J.

Linguistica Copernicana

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2013

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issue 1(9)

267-281

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The present paper aims to investigate which types of speech acts play a dominant role in the texts of online job advertisements, to what extent those acts are realised indirectly, and what purposes this indirectness may serve. The research is based on an analysis of a corpus comprising 100 online recruitment ads, of which 60 appeared in the Internet editions of three major UK newspapers, and the remaining 40 were found on two of the leading UK job portals. Methodologically the study is grounded in the cognitive approach to speech act theory, whereby the speech act taxonomy as proposed by J. Searle is treated as prototypical categorisation enhancing the organisation and systematicity of the analysis. The findings indicate that over a half of the micro-acts identified in the sample are realised indirectly. The two largest categories comprise assertions and ‘complex’/ambiguous micro-acts, both performing the functions of boasting and promising, and thus contributing to the overall persuasive appeal of recruitment ads.

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Problem wieloznaczności składniowej w przepisach zawierających wyliczenia wierszowe

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Zeifert M.

Studia Iuridica

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2020

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vol. 83

262-277

PL

The article addresses the problem of syntactic ambiguity in legal provisions containing linear enumerations (namely such where the elements of enumeration are placed next to each other, without any editorial distinction). There seem to be two types of such ambiguity. The first one stems from the ambiguity of logical relations between the elements of enumeration. This often involves considerations concerning conjunctive words (i.e. and, or). The second one stems from the ambiguity of purely syntactic relations between the elements of enumeration and the modifiers. This type is rarely properly identified by interpreters in the Polish legal practice. The article offers examples from the Polish case law and makes suggestions for legislative drafters how to avoid the described ambiguity.

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The effect of interlingual and intralingual semantic priming on translating ambiguous words

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Maciuszek J., Unrug T.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2018

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vol. 49

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issue 2

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Deformacja i pozorność dialogu w kontekście quasi-relacji społecznych

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Brzozowski T. T., Wydział Nauk Społecznych U. W.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica

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2013

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vol. 26

EN

This text covers a wide range of problems in social relationships. In the Author's opinion, a present social reality doesn't allow deeper contacts between people. Current understanding of the concept of the dialogue, reduces it to negotiations or communication acts. But none of them isn't a suitable substitute of the dialogue with its richness of a sense. The present time is characterized by superficiality of relationships in societies. Instead of the dialogue, we deal with only quasirelationship. People haven't lost ability of reflective and critical reception of their life and they can't feel existence of others as someone important, unique and indispensable for a proper and authentic meeting. In the dialogue, everybody shapes a meeting as momentous event. Different understanding of the depth this concept, can lead up to reduction of relationships in modern society. Misinterpretation of the dialogue concept makes our life common, mediocre, trashy. The article analyzes a moral condition of modern society and points at possible and existing threats in a field range of people's relationships.

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Look Behind the (Animated) Pictures. Notes on the Role of the Aesopic Language in Hungarian Animated Film

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Varga Z.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

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2015

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vol. 10

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issue 1

121-139

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The essay explores a certain tendency of Hungarian animated film related to a strategy of constructing meaning. The so-called Aesopic language, which can be found in Hungarian animated film, is interested in creating ambiguity, hidden meanings, especially against oppressive political systems. The paper approaches the development of the Aesopic language in Hungarian animated film based on two factors. The first one examines the characteristics of the animated film in general, focusing on the double sense of the animated image. The second one is a historical approach, considering how the Communist regime affected artistic freedom, and how the Aesopic language became general in Central and Eastern Europe during the decades of Communism. After delineating the concept, the essay continues with interpretations of Hungarian animated films produced by the famous Pannonia Film Studio as examples of the Aesopic language. The paper distinguishes between a less and a more direct variant of creating ambiguity, depending on whether the animated films lack or contain explicit references to the Communist system. The group o|f the less direct variant includes Rondino, Changing Times and The Fly, among the examples of the more direct variant we can find Storv about N, Our Holidays and Mind the Steps!.

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Записная книжка писателя и литература постмодернизма: точки сближения

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Ефимова С.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica

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2012

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issue 5

100-110

EN

This article begins with a brief characterization of the writer’s notebook as a special text type. Then the article analyzes structural and compositional features that notebooks of the 19th and 20th centuries have in common with postmodernist prose. These features include: a) fragmentary narration; chaotic composition; many syntactic and semantic ellipses; b) the absence of one main idea and an important role of chance in the creative process; c) an opportunity to start reading a text from any of its parts, even from the end; d) a great number of intertextual links; similarity to hypertext; e) no stylistic and thematic limitations, etc. There are three possible explanations of these points of convergence: a psychological one, a linguistic one and a historical-literary one.

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Accounting for Language Humour Devices in Terms of Eugeniu Coșeriu’s Theory

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Măciucă G.

Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

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2021

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vol. 16 (Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (II))

172-198

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While endeavouring to document humour-generating [=HG] devices, we set out on a trek across various theories on language to see which of them – if any – could be made available for tapping in this respect. The idiosyncratic stance Coșeriu took on linguistic norms [=LN], in particular the view he advanced, that they are even apt to cause each other to be breached, greatly assisted us in blazing a trail on the comic effects that could be generated in the process. A synopsis of research on effects orchestrated by infringement of LN and ambiguity combined is presented in the second section of the contribution at hand, after reviewing a selection of theoretical rudiments of both HG devices in Section 1. The third and last section takes linguicomedy a step further, into the shifting sands of translatability, with a major focus on the translator as languacultural communicator. In the concluding remarks to the final subsection thereof we take the liberty to put forward a scale for rating translatability of LN-flouting humour (which just happens to differ – and with good reason, too – from Coșeriu‘s hierarchy of LN-breaching types), as well as the legitimate claim, in our view, of humour translation to a genre per se.

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Towards naturalness scales of pragmatic complexity

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Kilani-Schoch M., Sánchez Miret F., Dressler W. U.

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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2011

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vol. 47

237

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This paper is an attempt to handle pragmatic complexity within the framework of Natural Linguistics. Specifically it aims at building two naturalness scales of the complexity of pragmatic inferences based on the naturalness parameters of trans-parency–opacity and of biuniqueness–ambiguity, illustrated mainly with French examples. The scales are complementary: transparency–opacity deals with hierarchized meanings, biuniqueness–ambiguity with exclusive alternative meanings. Pragmatic complexity is intended here as a function of the number and types of inferences or inferential steps included in the description of an utterance meaning. It is defined quantitatively and qualitatively and converges with cognitive complexity. The scales distinguish phenomena that are to varying degrees opaque or ambiguous (indirect, elliptic or non-literal) according to whether there is flouting or violation of a Gricean maxim and how this takes place. The number of cotextual and/or contextual dimensions as well as variable cog-nitive operations, modes of reasoning and meaning relations are taken as measures of pragmatic complexity. The paper also discusses the relation between complexity and markedness. This issue reveals a conflict between the perspectives of speaker and hearer.

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Etymologiczne zabawy Juliana Tuwima

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Sokólska U.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

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2015

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vol. 22

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issue 1

235-252

PL

The article concentrates on the etymological and quasi-etymological considerations of Julian Tuwim, his fascination with Slavism and the future of language and word-formative experiments. Of course, there is no mention here about a program manifesto forming a logically ordered lecture in an academic sense. The linguistic knowledge of the poet “can be recognized” in his opinions appearing in Pegazie dęba or in funny poetical puns and metalinguistic utterances. It must be emphasized that in the writer’s opinion, language is not only a substance used for creation of the literary vision of the world. The artist makes efforts to comprehend the secrets of a language system and even draws conclusions of theoretical nature, turning language into a kind of a “protagonist” of his own poetic texts, journalistic texts or texts on the theory of literature.

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Humor as a threat-coding mechanism

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Greenberg E.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2020

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vol. 8

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issue 1

EN

The integration of humour’s classical theories such as relief, superiority, and incongruity suggest that the differences and patterns in what we find funny are largely dependent on attaching an “explicably safe” meaning to novel entities. It is argued that humour is a substantial organising influence in human socialisation and personal threat perception. Built on such work as Caleb Warren and A. Peter McGraw’s notion of humour in explicated ambiguity, Tom Veatch’s paradox of humour as a “normal” violation, and V.S. Ramachandran’s False Alarm Theory of humour, an integrational theory is developed and tested against a variety of hypotheses associated with the core findings of classical humour research.

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Multivocity in Topics 1.15

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Domaradzki M.

Peitho. Examina Antiqua

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2016

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vol. 7

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issue 1

69-86

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This paper discusses Aristotle’s account of multivocity (πολλαχῶς/ πλεοναχῶς λέγεται) as expounded in Topics 1.15. This article argues that an inquiry into how many ways (ποσαχῶς) something is said becomes for Aristotle a tool of dialectical examination that he employs throughout his entire philosophical career: investigating the many/multiple ways (πολλαχῶς/πλεοναχῶς) something is said allows one to recognize the ambiguity of the term in question and, consequently, to construct an adequate definition of its referent. The present study reconstructs the various strategies for detecting ambiguity and discusses its different types. Subsequently, the paper accounts for why Aristotle moves so easily from words and their meanings to things and their essences. Finally, the article presents an analysis of the connection between the many ways something is said and the various categories it is predicated in. The considerations are supported by a new translation of Topics 1.15.

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This paper discusses Aristotle’s account of multivocity (πολλαχῶς/ πλεοναχῶς λέγεται) as expounded in Topics 1.15. This article argues that an inquiry into how many ways (ποσαχῶς) something is said becomes for Aristotle a tool of dialectical examination that he employs throughout his entire philosophical career: investigating the many/multiple ways (πολλαχῶς/πλεοναχῶς) something is said allows one to recognize the ambiguity of the term in question and, consequently, to construct an adequate definition of its referent. The present study reconstructs the various strategies for detecting ambiguity and discusses its different types. Subsequently, the paper accounts for why Aristotle moves so easily from words and their meanings to things and their essences. Finally, the article presents an analysis of the connection between the many ways something is said and the various categories it is predicated in. The considerations are supported by a new translation of Topics 1.15.

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Wieloznaczne słownictwo w chrystologii Nowego Testamentu

Niedookreśloność znaczeniowa idiomów z perspektywy semantyki kognitywnej i jej implikacje dla frazeografii

The learning teacher: role of ambiguity in education

Spectres of Ambiguity in Divergent Thinking and Perceptual Switching

Ambiguity and the uncanny in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and its Polish translations

Spectres of Ambiguity in Divergent Thinking and Perceptual Switching

Preference Relations in Ranking Multivalued Alternatives in Finance Using Stochastic Dominance

Uncertainty and Probability within Utilitarian Theory

Niejednoznaczność wypowiedzi humorystycznych a kompetentne komunikowanie się

Realisation of Indirect Speech Acts in Online Job Advertisements

Problem wieloznaczności składniowej w przepisach zawierających wyliczenia wierszowe

The effect of interlingual and intralingual semantic priming on translating ambiguous words

Deformacja i pozorność dialogu w kontekście quasi-relacji społecznych

Look Behind the (Animated) Pictures. Notes on the Role of the Aesopic Language in Hungarian Animated Film

Записная книжка писателя и литература постмодернизма: точки сближения

Accounting for Language Humour Devices in Terms of Eugeniu Coșeriu’s Theory