Abstract In this paper, we are addressing the relationship between ambiguity and obscurity by comparing political with literary use of language. particular, considering contexts in which ambiguity, deriving from underspecification, is strategically used as a device to establish certain degree obscurity. We suggest that strategy based on an undeclared identification meanings fact distinct, thus ...

The totality principle applies in cases of multiple offending to reduce the total effective sentence that is imposed on offenders. This is normally achieved by either making some or all of the individual sentences concurrent, or by reducing the length of the individual sentences. Although totality is a well-established sentencing doctrine, its scope and its impact on the overall sentence are un...

In this article, we explore the structure of the web as an indicator of popular culture. In a series of art and technology installations, the software agency needs to keep ‘grounded’ to what people can readily understand. We administered a survey to understand how people perceived word and phrase obscurity related with frequency information gathered from a popular Web search engine. We found th...

Narratives abound concerning the religious and political positioning of Jerusalem in the past as well as the present and have been used in a variety of ways to serve various ideologies or political ends. One such narrative (which can be found even in some academic treatises of the history of Jerusalem) states that following the Muslim re-conquest of the city after the Crusades Muslim rulers neg...