This paper focuses on the general problem of the lexical bottleneck and, in particular, on the issues of semantic clustering and disambiguation by means of word usage cues obtained from sublanguage-specific corpora. Our approaches combines the use of numerical techniques…

El objetivo se centra en saber cómo la investigación de la Historia de la Enfermería nos permite hoy hablar de Historiografía de la misma. Esta afirmación puede chocar con el rigor que se ha pedido a la Historia en general,…

El parto se ha desarrollado tradicionalmente en el ámbito familiar, un medio en el que la parturienta ha vivido su experiencia, personal e intransferible, en compañía de sus familiares más cercanos, madre y amigas, siendo asistida por una profesional, otra…

La Lingüística Clínica es un nuevo ámbito de aplicación del conocimiento lingüístico. Su reconocimiento oficial en Reino Unido, en el año 1972, queda lejos de lo que en España hemos alcanzado y podemos esperar. En nuestro país los estudios de…

Este trabajo analiza algunos relatos de viajes extraordinarios de los siglos XVII y XVIII cuyo objetivo era reconstruir la primitiva lengua adámica que se hablaba en toda la tierra antes de la maldición bíblica de Babel. Dicha lengua, en virtud…

This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

The contemporary study in the philosophy of language concentrates extensively on a cluster of questions defining the problem of linguistic knowledge (Evans 1981, Davies 1989, Dummett 1991). What explains a speaker's language mastery? Is it knowledge that underwrites our linguistic…

Focusing on the A-text (1604) version of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , this study further assesses biographical information on the poet and intellectual currents of the Counter Reformation, so as to investigate the play's relation to emergent trends of individualism in…

This thesis considers the design of receivers for multi-user communication systems based on asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA). Its primary aim is to improve current receiver designs which exhibit shortcomings in systems using long sequence spreading (where the spreading sequence…

This dissertation offers both a theoretical investigation into the relationships between narrative, knowledge and personhood and a literary critical analysis of a group of Samuel Beckett's works in which narrative, knowledge and personhood are the central themes., I present an…