The ability to make sense of events in one's life has held a central role in theories of adaptation to adversity. However, there are few rigorous studies on the role of meaning in adjustment, and those that have been conducted have focused predominantly on direct personal trauma. The authors examined the predictors and long-term consequences of Americans' searching for and finding meaning in a ...

Due to the special (procedural) nature of the language (verbal communication) ‘knowledge’, the dominant trends in applied linguistics research in the last few decades have been advocating ‘acquisition’ rather than ‘learning’ activities where the main focus in SL & FL education should be on ‘meaning’ while some ‘focus-on-form’ being justified. But the ‘form’ to be ‘focused-on’ is mostly misconce...

This research is entitled “Psychological Implications in Poetic Images of the Collection of: A Linguistic Study”. study discusses types meaning. Generally, meaning categorized into two parts: semantic and pragmatic Besides, it also interpretations artistic phenomena psychological implications shows their implications. Meaning generally a multidisciplinary sophisticated concept; hence has been d...

The debate on literal meaning in theories of natural language processing has focused on two main issues: (1) Are there conditions by which the literal meaning of a sentence can be appropriately identified?; and (2) Is there some evaluation of literal meaning during the interpretation of natural language utterances? My article, “Literal meaning and psychological theory,” (Gibbs, 1984) attempted ...

The study presented in this paper reviews the emergence and development of Hungarian economic legal terminology. It is based on research during which I examined over 1 000 terms from their first publication specialized dictionaries, through changes meaning, all way to integration into technical vocabulary or extinction. My also focused reasons why colloquial meaning a term may cause disappearan...