The paper explores how Hungarian parents of children with a language disorder use emotional deixis to report their child’s condition. Demonstrative pronouns and the metaphorical meaning space, particularly proximity, are observed in corpus six interviews. questions raised are: a) What entities relations typically referenced by deixis? b) kinds meanings conveyed spatial closeness demonstrative p...

What is the relation between first-person thought and self-consciousness? On one view, grasp of the first person is based on acquaintance with the self. Self-consciousness makes first-person reference possible, in much the same way in which perceptual acquaintance with objects of ‘outer sense’ makes perceptual demonstratives such as ‘this lemon’ available to us. The ‘perceptual demonstrative mo...

Parasuicide cases among youth (15-24 years) referred to the clinical psychology section of a regional hospital from 1995 to 1998 were reviewed. In all 100 cases (37 males and 63 females) were identified being about 10% of the caseload. As part of the clinical psychological assessment sociodemographic, clinical characteristics, trigger factors, employed methods and suicide intentions were analys...

This article analyzes opinions expressed by Italian naturalist Lazzaro Spallanzani on the origin and constitution of fossils on three of his travels, which punctuated three courses in mineralogy he gave in the natural history discipline at the University of Pavia. These trips to Portovenere, the island of Cerigo and the Two Sicilies enabled him to address important topics, such as the discovery...

This paper addresses the question of whether and how the semantics of third-person pronouns can vary across languages. I investigate third-person non-demonstrative pronouns in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish), including null pro and its overt animate plural counterpart wit. I provide evidence for a striking cross-linguistic difference between the St’át’imcets pronouns and English ones: third-pers...