Most scientists are familiar with the basic tenet of evolutionary biology “mutation proposes, selection disposes,” where random variation generated by mutation is thought to provide the fuel for natural selection to direct evolutionary change. If this is truly a basic tenet, then why have prominent evolutionary biologists expressed concern about the relative importance given to variation or sel...

Israel has made an important contribution to translation studies. Since the late 1960s, its contribution in this field is mainly identified with the Tel Aviv school of poetics and semiotics. This paper sets out to introduce the basic ideas of the Tel Aviv school and show how they developed. It surveys the school's achievements in the various branches of translation studies — theory, descriptive...

Education and learning have witnessed some important changes in the past few years. The appearance and success of the information society may well be one of the main factors for such change. Indeed. children are increasingly more and more at ease with the use of computers and technology. So, eapitalising on this advantage, our research aims at exploring and enriching current and new classroom a...

The Quine-Putnam indispensability argument concludes that we should believe that mathematical objects exist because of their ineliminable use in scientific theory. I argue that none of the objects in which the indispensability argument justifies belief are mathematical objects. I first present a traditional characterization of mathematical objects. I then propose a general formulation of the in...

I review the purported opposition between computational and dynamical approaches in cognitive science. I argue that both computational and dynamical notions will be necessary for a full explanatory account of cognition, and give a perspective on how recent research in complex systems can lead to a much needed rapprochement between computational and dynamical styles of explanation. The “Computat...

A TWOFOLD PROCESS CAN BE SEEK in the growth of science: the fragmentation of formal disciplines and a recombination of the specialties resulting from this fragmentation. The division of disciplines into specialized subfields has led to the development of hybrid specialties. The process of hybridization consists, first of all, of borrowing and lending concepts, methods, theories, and praxes. The...

1. introduction intertextuality is a literature theory which has been based on bakhtine’s dialogism theory. it was firstly stated by juliet kristova. according to this theory each text is produced and read in a dialogue with other texts. intertextual criticism is a way of reading texts which signifies texts to each other rather than the real world. the hypotext, habil (abel) and qabil (cain), w...

In light of the increase in the number and rigor of studies on adult friendship and the tendency of kin and neighbor relationships to have become more structurally similar to friendship, this is a crucial juncture at which to pause and assess what we know and do not know about adult friendship, to begin a needed theoretical synthesis, to identify gaps in the literature and to produce guidelines...

Starting from the question above I sketch an understanding of Classical Phonetics as fulfilling the task of Euro-American Phonology. A spontaneous reaction to the question in the title might very well be "Yes! Of course letters are pronounced In the reading of texts!" And in a sense this answer is correct. But this sense is not the sense in which I want to question that letters have a pronuncia...

The primary objective of this paper is to describe how a computer-based corpus of texts can be of assistance to the terminology community, particularly for terminologists working in lesser-used living languages. Introduction The explosive growth of scientific and technical documentation, mainly due to progress in science and technology but also in some small way helped along by the development ...