The metaphysical concerns of David Shahar's short stories lead repeatedly to a pronounced metanarrative focus in this fiction. Metanarrative awareness develops on three complementary levels of Shahar's work: a) as explicit textual commentary by the narrator (e.g. Si'ur rison, and others); b) as complexities of narrative organization that struggle against the inescapably discrete and discursive ...

There are many different theories of specificity in the semantic literature. These include specificity as scope (Ioup 1977, among others), specificity as referentiality (Fodor and Sag 1982), specificity as a choice function reading (Reinhart 1997, Winter 1997, Kratzer 1998, among many others), and specificity as speaker identifiability (Groenendijk & Stokhof 1980). Importantly, theories of spec...

Kierkegaard’s literary theory is above all a theory of communication, and the primarily religious author Kierkegaard has developed a complicated theory regarding communication the task of which consists in “making” the hearer “aware of the religious”, and, in fact, to make of him a genuine Christian believer. To achieve this goal Kierkegaard uses the Christian traditional conjunction of spes et...

William H. Thornton undertakes in his article, "A Postmodern Solzhenitsyn?," to bring Solzhenitsyn in from the cold, critically speaking, by closing the gap between him and his many postmodern detractors. That gap has been premised on the rough equivalence of poststructuralism and postmodernism. The postmodern realism advanced in this study challenges not only Solzhenitsyn's critics but his own...

This work examines the role of the stage-level (SL)/individual-level (IL) distinction applied to nouns in a case of morphosyntactic regularization in Spanish: variable reanalysis of the NP argument as subject in the presentational haber construction (había/habían perros). We conduct variationist, quantitative analyses on all instances of existential haber with a plural NP in corpora of spoken P...

Abstract In many Polish children’s books published in the last twenty years relationship between Jews and Poles during Holocaust is presented as an unburied theme which can be interpreted context of both collective private/individual cultures remembrance. Therefore, this case, we deal with experiences confirmed cultural written order rather than existentially faced. contemporary Poland, a pract...

This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to discourse wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital examines texts, in widest sense, contextualised within norms culture. The texts emanating on platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope @myco...

Generalized social phobia (GSP) involves the fear of being negatively evaluated. Previous work suggests that self-referentiality, mediated by the medial prefrontal cortex (MFPC), plays an important role in the disorder. However, it is not clear whether this anomalous MPFC response to self-related information in patients with GSP concerns an increased representation of their own or others' opini...

Our knowledge, how the brain controls and interrelates gesture and speech, is still limited. An interesting branch of the study has been the relationship between aphasia and nonverbal behaviour. The main feature of aphasia is the impairment of communication via natural language. One of the most significant questions is, whether gestures may substitute or compensate for speech in the event of sp...