Language Aspects in Hypnosis Dental Therapy: Pragmatic and Stylistic Studies

Medical and Dental Hypnosis

Linguistic, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Aspects of Type-Directed Natural Language

We describe how type information can be used to infer grammatical structure. This is in contrast to conventional type inference in programming languages where the roles are reversed, structure determining type. Our work is based on Applicative Universal Grammar (AUG), a linguistic theory that views the formation of phrase in a form that is analogous to function application in a programming lang...

Pragmatic aspects of spatial language acquisition and use across languages

Across languages, back is produced earlier and more frequently than front. This asymmetry has been attributed either to a conceptual/semantic asymmetry in the early meanings of these locatives (with back being more basic than front; conceptual immaturity account) or to the fact that Back configurations are inherently more ‘noteworthy’ than Front configurations (pragmatic account). Here, we test...

Stylistic grammars in language translation

We are developing stylistic grammars to provide the basis for a French and English stylistic parser. Our stylistic grammar is a branching stratificational model, built upon a foundation dealing with lexical, syntactic, and semantic stylistic realizations. Its central level uses a vocabulary of constituent stylistic elements common to both English and French, while the top level correlates styli...

Hypnosis in Daily Dental Practice

Majority of dental patients reveal a great anxiety and fear during routine stomatological procedures. Even a medi− cal treatment of the oral region under local anaesthesia is causing intense anxiety. Such attitude of some patients to stomatological procedures is a cause of their irregular visits in dental clinics, which, in consequence, may lead to increase more severe forms of dental diseases....