The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the concept of fuzzy logic ,its application in linguistics ,especially in language teaching and the fuzziness of some lexical items in English.
Fuzziness means that the semantic boundaries of some lexical items are indefinite and ideterminate.Fuzzy logic provides a very precise approach for dealing with this indeterminacy and uncertainty which grows (among other reasons) out of human behavior and the effect of society.
The concept of fuzzy logic has emerged in the development of the theory of fuzzy set by Lotfi Zadeh(a professor of computer science at the university of California) in 1965.It can be thought of as the application side of the fuzzy set theory. In linguistics, few scholars have dealt with this phenomenon, among them, Lakoff (1972), Labov (1973), and Aitchison (1994). Consequently, very little literature is available on this concept in linguistics. The researcher has to collect bits of information scattered in various fields of knowledge.
The paper is of three sections: section one surveys briefly some of the semantic terms which are closely related to lexical fuzziness, since it is a problem of meaning by nature, like denotation versus connotation and intension versus extension. Section two is of two main parts. The first explores in detail the emergence of fuzzy logic, shedding light on its development and the criticism to it. The second part is devoted to lexical fuzziness, trying to discover its characteristics, the reasons behind its existence in languages, its relation to other similar concepts like vagueness, its application in teaching a second language and some other related titles.
اشتهرت بغداد بمساجدها ومأذنها ذات الطراز المتميز في التصميم والشكل والحجم والبناء والزخرفة. ونتيجة للاحتلال المتكرر والغزو الاجبي والكوارث الطبيعية الاخرى فان معظم ابنيتها تعرضت للتدمير والاندثار ولم يبق الا القليل منها شاهدا
There was a huge role in the history of a muslim woman and several books have mentioned that politically or in religion and even scientifically and socially which leaded a lot of women to look up to these women who helped in keeping the religion just in the right form for other generations
The issue of freedom is the most prominent and distinctive issue of Western thought, which it reached after a long struggle. The English thinker John Stuart Mill is considered the most prominent Western thinker who elaborated on the issue of freedom, until his ideas on the issue of freedom became the semi-final formula for issues of freedom in Western thought, which revolve in their entirety on The individual has complete freedom as long as it does not harm others, and this freedom is controlled by law.
And if the freedoms he offered were not considered an achievement in Western thought; Freedom in Islam is a central and fundamental issue, and the details of freedoms in Islam have not been accomplished by anyone, but rather came
... Show MoreThe research titles “Ammorrite tribes and their historical role in Mesopotamia and Levant” deals with tribe structure, nomination, political and cultural roles of these tribes in Mesopotamia and Levant, as it terminate Sumerian presence in Iraq and changed historical course and contributed in changing population landmarks and started new bright era, in addition to admitting new beliefs, gods and laws, beside ruling principles which became tribal, i.e., dynasties instead of Sumerian rulings based on religion belief.
Seemed reflections of cultural globalization are clear on the values of communities those values that preserve each community privacy, so that became members of these communities lack the ability to distinguish clearly between what is right and what is wrong and adoption of ideas and values imported from abroad, regardless of whether positive or negative. The aim of the research was to: - 1 - Detection of cultural globalization in the educational values for students kindergarten section. 2 - To identify the most prominent educational values (social, scientific, aesthetic, moral and spiritual) globalized culture. The current Aqtsralbges on: - Department of kindergarten students to study in the morning College for Girls, Baghdad University
... Show MoreThe research aimed at measuring the degree to which the accept their class environment in governmental & civil Kindergartens & it also aimed at knowing the differences between the dimensions of the measurement & the differences according to the kindergarten & class variables .
The researcher made a measurement for the class environment & it included five dimensions & the answering choices were three ( to a big extent , to some extent and no ) and after making sure that the measurement is usable , the researcher applied it on the sample which consisted of ( 212 )male & female children through the estimated answers of the teacher & the result was that there was an accep
... Show Moreالبنية الاقتصادية الاجتماعية للادارة الجديدة في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية
The research dealt with the study (interpretation of space in the art of installation), and it is located in four frameworks, the first is devoted to clarifying the research problem, its importance and the need for it, its goal, and its limits, and determining the most important terms contained therein.The research problem was determined from the question, does space embody those different and diverse materials that were formulated and installed by the artist into modern forms? Is the product of synthetic arts an appropriation of these spaces and domination of them?The problematic of interpreting space in its conceptual dimension in (synthetic) art in its multiplicity, diversity and difference, or objecting to the work of artistic system
... Show More