Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring meaning
Do any interesting or valuable fundamental commonalities arise when measurement and linguistic methods are used to understand the same phenomena? A basis for such commonality resides in the human desire for meaning, a need manifest in all cultures and languages. However, the notion of meaning is...
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| author | Cavanagh, Robert Frederick Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko Fisher (Jr), William P |
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| description | Do any interesting or valuable fundamental commonalities arise when measurement
and linguistic methods are used to understand the same phenomena? A basis for such
commonality resides in the human desire for meaning, a need manifest in all cultures and
languages. However, the notion of meaning is rarely associated with measurement; it resides
more comfortably in the study of language and linguistics. This exploration commences with an
examination of measurement theories, principally Rasch Measurement Theory (RMT), with the
aim of identifying opportunities for elucidating the meaning of objects of measurement. A brief
overview of the discipline of linguistics then reveals the importance of semantics in expressing
meaning. An explanation of how the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) can enable
explication of linguistic meaning follows. The paper concludes with a proposal for ecological
applications of invariant measurement and the NSM. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-770732020-04-29T04:57:55Z Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring meaning Cavanagh, Robert Frederick Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko Fisher (Jr), William P Measurement meaning Natural Semantic Metalanguage Do any interesting or valuable fundamental commonalities arise when measurement and linguistic methods are used to understand the same phenomena? A basis for such commonality resides in the human desire for meaning, a need manifest in all cultures and languages. However, the notion of meaning is rarely associated with measurement; it resides more comfortably in the study of language and linguistics. This exploration commences with an examination of measurement theories, principally Rasch Measurement Theory (RMT), with the aim of identifying opportunities for elucidating the meaning of objects of measurement. A brief overview of the discipline of linguistics then reveals the importance of semantics in expressing meaning. An explanation of how the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) can enable explication of linguistic meaning follows. The paper concludes with a proposal for ecological applications of invariant measurement and the NSM. 2019 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77073 10.1088/1742-6596/1379/1/012019 English Institute of Physics (IoP) unknown |
| spellingShingle | Measurement meaning Natural Semantic Metalanguage Cavanagh, Robert Frederick Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko Fisher (Jr), William P Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring meaning |
| title | Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring
meaning |
| title_full | Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring
meaning |
| title_fullStr | Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring
meaning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring
meaning |
| title_short | Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an approach to measuring
meaning |
| title_sort | natural semantic metalanguage as an approach to measuring
meaning |
| topic | Measurement meaning Natural Semantic Metalanguage |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77073 |