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This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a
seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop
a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines
represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology,
communicative disorders, education, English, geography,
linguistics, and philosophy. The book argues for an organized
representational system -- a Deictic Center (DC) -- which is
constructed by readers from language in a text combined with their
world knowledge.
As readers approach a new text they need to gather and maintain
information about who the participants are and where and when the
events take place. This information plays a central role in
understanding the narrative. The editors claim that readers
maintain this information without explicit textual reminders by
including it in their mental model of the story world.
Because of the centrality of the temporal, spatial, and character
information in narratives, they developed their notion of a DC as a
crucial part of the reader's mental model of the narrative. The
events that carry the temporal and spatial core of the narrative
are linguistically and conceptually constrained according to
certain principles that can be relatively well defined. A narrative
obviously unfolds one word, or one sentence, at a time. This volume
suggests that cognitively a narrative usually unfolds one place and
time at a time. This spatio-temporal location functions as part of
the DC of the narrative. It is the "here" and "now" of the reader's
"mind's eye" in the world of the story.
Organized into seven parts, this book describes the goal of the
cognitive science project resulting in this volume, the
methodological approaches taken, and the history of the
collaborative effort. It provides a historical and theoretical
background underlying the DC theory, including discussions of
deixis in language and the nature of fiction. It goes on to outline
the computational framework and how it is used to represent deixis
in narrative, and details the linguistic devices implicated in the
DC theory. Other subjects covered include: crosslinguistic
indicators of subjectivity, psychological investigations of the use
of deixis by children and adults as they process narratives,
conversation, direction giving, implications for emerging literacy,
and a narrator's experience in writing a short story.
This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a
seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop
a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines
represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology,
communicative disorders, education, English, geography,
linguistics, and philosophy. The book argues for an organized
representational system -- a Deictic Center (DC) -- which is
constructed by readers from language in a text combined with their
world knowledge.
As readers approach a new text they need to gather and maintain
information about who the participants are and where and when the
events take place. This information plays a central role in
understanding the narrative. The editors claim that readers
maintain this information without explicit textual reminders by
including it in their mental model of the story world.
Because of the centrality of the temporal, spatial, and character
information in narratives, they developed their notion of a DC as a
crucial part of the reader's mental model of the narrative. The
events that carry the temporal and spatial core of the narrative
are linguistically and conceptually constrained according to
certain principles that can be relatively well defined. A narrative
obviously unfolds one word, or one sentence, at a time. This volume
suggests that cognitively a narrative usually unfolds one place and
time at a time. This spatio-temporal location functions as part of
the DC of the narrative. It is the "here" and "now" of the reader's
"mind's eye" in the world of the story.
Organized into seven parts, this book describes the goal of the
cognitive science project resulting in this volume, the
methodological approaches taken, and the history of the
collaborative effort. It provides a historical and theoretical
background underlying the DC theory, including discussions of
deixis in language and the nature of fiction. It goes on to outline
the computational framework and how it is used to represent deixis
in narrative, and details the linguistic devices implicated in the
DC theory. Other subjects covered include: crosslinguistic
indicators of subjectivity, psychological investigations of the use
of deixis by children and adults as they process narratives,
conversation, direction giving, implications for emerging literacy,
and a narrator's experience in writing a short story.
This book is first of all designed as a text for the course usually
called "theory of functions of a real variable". This course is at
present cus tomarily offered as a first or second year graduate
course in United States universities, although there are signs that
this sort of analysis will soon penetrate upper division
undergraduate curricula. We have included every topic that we think
essential for the training of analysts, and we have also gone down
a number of interesting bypaths. We hope too that the book will be
useful as a reference for mature mathematicians and other
scientific workers. Hence we have presented very general and
complete versions of a number of important theorems and
constructions. Since these sophisticated versions may be difficult
for the beginner, we have given elementary avatars of all important
theorems, with appro priate suggestions for skipping. We have given
complete definitions, ex planations, and proofs throughout, so that
the book should be usable for individual study as well as for a
course text. Prerequisites for reading the book are the following.
The reader is assumed to know elementary analysis as the subject is
set forth, for example, in TOM M. ApOSTOL'S Mathematical Analysis
[Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, Mass., 1957], or WALTER RUDIN'S
Principles of M athe nd matical Analysis [2 Ed., McGraw-Hill Book
Co., New York, 1964].
The translator of a mathematical work faces a task that is at once
fascinating and frustrating. He has the opportunity of reading
closely the work of a master mathematician. He has the duty of
retaining as far as possible the flavor and spirit of the original,
at the same time rendering it into a readable and idiomatic form of
the language into which the translation is made. All of this is
challenging. At the same time, the translator should never forget
that he is not a creator, but only a mirror. His own viewpoints,
his own preferences, should never lead him into altering the
original, even with the best intentions. Only an occasional
translator's note is permitted. The undersigned is grateful for the
opportunity of translating Professor Kirillov's fine book on group
representations, and hopes that it will bring to the
English-reading mathematical public as much instruction and
interest as it has brought to the translator. Deviations from the
Russian text have been rigorously avoided, except for a number of
corrections kindly supplied by Professor Kirillov. Misprints and an
occasional solecism have been tacitly taken care of. The trans
lation is in all essential respects faithful to the original
Russian. The translator records his gratitude to Linda Sax, who
typed the entire translation, to Laura Larsson, who prepared the
bibliography (considerably modified from the original), and to
Betty Underhill, who rendered essential assistance."
Lev Semenovic Pontrjagin (1908) is one of the outstanding figures
in 20th century mathematics. In a long career he has made
fundamental con tributions to many branches of mathematics, both
pure and applied. He has received every honor that a grateful
government can bestow. Though in no way constrained to do so, he
has through the years taught mathematics courses at Moscow State
University. In the year 1975 he set himself the task of writing a
series of books on secondary school and beginning university
mathematics. In his own words, "I wished to set forth the
foundations of higher mathematics in a form that would have been
accessible to myself as a lad, but making use of all my experience
as a scientist and a teacher, ac cumulated over many years. " The
present volume is a translation of the first two out of four
moderately sized volumes on this theme planned by Pro fessor
Pontrjagin. The book begins at the beginning of modern mathematics,
analytic ge ometry in the plane and 3-dimensional space.
Refinements about limits and the nature of real numbers come only
later. Many concrete examples are given; these may take the place
of formal exercises, which the book does not provide. The book
continues with careful treatment of differentiation and
integration, of limits, of expansions of elementary functions in
power se ries."
This book is first of all designed as a text for the course usually
called "theory of functions of a real variable". This course is at
present cus tomarily offered as a first or second year graduate
course in United States universities, although there are signs that
this sort of analysis will soon penetrate upper division
undergraduate curricula. We have included every topic that we think
essential for the training of analysts, and we have also gone down
a number of interesting bypaths. We hope too that the book will be
useful as a reference for mature mathematicians and other
scientific workers. Hence we have presented very general and
complete versions of a number of important theorems and
constructions. Since these sophisticated versions may be difficult
for the beginner, we have given elementary avatars of all important
theorems, with appro priate suggestions for skipping. We have given
complete definitions, ex planations, and proofs throughout, so that
the book should be usable for individual study as well as for a
course text. Prerequisites for reading the book are the following.
The reader is assumed to know elementary analysis as the subject is
set forth, for example, in TOM M. ApOSTOL'S Mathematical Analysis
[Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, Mass., 1957], or WALTER RUDIN'S
Principles of Mathe nd matical Analysis [2 Ed., McGraw-Hill Book
Co., New York, 1964].
Title: The gem of the western world, for all seasons.Author: Mary E
HewittPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01436900CollectionID:
CTRG94-B5537PublicationDate: 18500101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Engraved title on added t.p.Collation: 320 p., 9]
leaves of plates: ill.; 20 cm
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Biographical Sketches and Research Summaries' which compiles
biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of genetics
research, as well as research summaries from a number of different
focuses in this important field.
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