Disasters occasion ways of speaking and writing in the societies which they take place. Now, due to climate change, events such as wildfires, floods heatwaves are becoming more severe frequent. Therefore, crisis poses a challenge, not only materially, but discursively. Habitual vocabulary may no longer be appropriate, there is pull between these turns phrase newer ones informed by change. The a...

Every human being has the same vision for colors. On other hand, idioms –as an embodiment of expression experience, can certainly be a medium expressing universal meaning possessed by humans across cultures, including Through colors term in idioms, universality mind known. Natural Semantic Metalanguage is approach that tries to see language. By using six-color Morris Swadesh word list, this stu...

The term cultural scripts refers to a powerful new technique for articulating cultural norms, values, and practices in terms which are clear, precise, and accessible to cultural insiders and to cultural outsiders alike. This result is only possible because cultural scripts are formulated in a tightly constrained, yet expressively flexible, metalanguage consisting of simple words and grammatical...

The work presented here is a preliminary sn~y concerning the automatic translation of French natural language statements into the RESEDA semantic metalanguage. The text in natural language is first (pre)processed in order to obtain its syntactic structure. The "semantic parsing" process begins with marking the "triggers", defined as lexical units which call one or more of the predicative patter...

This paper argues that “YOU” and “I” (“I” “THOU”) are fundamental elements of human thought, present as distinct words (or signs) in all languages. I first developed this thesis my 1976 article “In defense YOU ME” (and before that, introduced it 1972 book Semantic Primitives; cf. also 2021 “‘Semantic Primitives’, fifty years later”). Since then, has been confirmed by wide-ranging cross-linguist...

In this paper we present the heuristic algorithms at the core of a text meaning analyzer based on the ontological-semantic approach (e.g., Nirenburg and Raskin 2004). The full analyzer takes as input natural language texts and through many levels of analysis produces text meaning representations (TMRs) formulated in a specially developed ontology-based metalanguage that covers semantic as well ...