Essays about: "Searle"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word Searle.

  1. 1. Analyzing Zelensky's Twitter communication strategies during the ongoing conflict : A study based on speech act theory

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Fanny Einarsson; Agnes Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Crisis communication; intercultural communication; speech act theory; Twitter;

    Abstract : This essay examines Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tweets during the early phase of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The method is mixed with both quantitative and qualitative studies and is based on content analysis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Wittgenstein and the Chinese Room

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Otto Palmlöf; [2023]
    Keywords : Wittgenstein; Searle; Chinese Room; AI; Artificial Intelligence; Intentionality;

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  4. 3. Commanding the Swedish roads : Non-verbal performatives in the grammar of road signs

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Ottilia Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : road signs; speech act theory; linguistic landscape studies; cooperative principle; semiotics;

    Abstract : Road signs form a non-verbal semiotic system – by many encountered on a daily basis – that dictates the actions of the users of the road, in order to create a safe and efficient traffic environment. It is clear that road signs are not just ‘saying’ things but ‘doing’ something. READ MORE

  5. 4. Is Searle a Property Dualist?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Felix Schröder; [2019]
    Keywords : John Searle; biological naturalism; reduction; consciousness; property dualism; mental causation; causality; physicalism; philosophy of mind; epiphenomenalism; overdetermination;

    Abstract : It has often been argued that John Searle’s theory of mind, biological naturalism, due to its commitment to mental irreducibility amounts to no more than disguised property dualism. I suggest that a thorough analysis of Searle’s somewhat unusual views on the nature of reduction reveals this irreducibility to be not a metaphysical relation between mental properties and physical but one concerned only with the semantics of the respective terms used to refer to these. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Foundational Myth of Russia : Explicating the puzzle behind the foundational myth of Russia and the construction of its contemporary geopolitics

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Cako Stefan; [2018]
    Keywords : Myth; Third Rome; Hybrid war; Russia; Ukraine; Georgia; Speech acts; Actantial model; Semiotic square;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the construction of the contemporary Russian geopolitics through the usage of the foundational myth, better known as the Third Rome myth and the center of true Christianity. This is achieved through the analysis of four famous speeches by President Vladimir Putin. READ MORE