Jonathan Shaheen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2414947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Shaheen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaheen |
| SIGNATURE | SHAHEEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How general can theories of ‘why’ and ‘because’ be
This paper explores a taxonomy of uses of ‘because’ from the linguistics literature. It traces the apparent semantic differences between content, epistemic, and act ‘because’ to differences in attachment height. But it argues that the fact that these uses of ‘because’ never occur in the same environments is evidence of an underlying semantic unity. Arguments from such a distribution to underlying unity are familiar from phonology and morphology, …
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism
Studies of witchcraft belief and persecution in Russia have been profoundly, and to a significant degree mistakenly, shaped by European understandings of witchcraft as fundamentally demonic and integrally linked to the power of the devil. Gary Morson and Caryl Emerson's concepts of "prosaics" and "semiotic totalitarianism," derived from their readings of M. M. Bakhtin, offer a productive way to set imported preconceptions aside and to comprehend …
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism
Studies of witchcraft belief and persecution in Russia have been profoundly, and to a significant degree mistakenly, shaped by European understandings of witchcraft as fundamentally demonic and integrally linked to the power of the devil. Gary Morson and Caryl Emerson's concepts of "prosaics" and "semiotic totalitarianism," derived from their readings of M. M. Bakhtin, offer a productive way to set imported preconceptions aside and to comprehend …
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism
Studies of witchcraft belief and persecution in Russia have been profoundly, and to a significant degree mistakenly, shaped by European understandings of witchcraft as fundamentally demonic and integrally linked to the power of the devil. Gary Morson and Caryl Emerson's concepts of "prosaics" and "semiotic totalitarianism," derived from their readings of M. M. Bakhtin, offer a productive way to set imported preconceptions aside and to comprehend …
How general can theories of ‘why’ and ‘because’ be
This paper explores a taxonomy of uses of ‘because’ from the linguistics literature. It traces the apparent semantic differences between content, epistemic, and act ‘because’ to differences in attachment height. But it argues that the fact that these uses of ‘because’ never occur in the same environments is evidence of an underlying semantic unity. Arguments from such a distribution to underlying unity are familiar from phonology and morphology, …
Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 work) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (1 work) · Law (1 work)