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While information scientists may well be concerned with the literary aboutness (John Hutchins, 1975, 1977, 1978), philosophers of mind and psychologists with the psychological or
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R. A. Fairthorne (1969) is credited with coining the exact term "aboutness", which became popular in LIS since the late 1970s, perhaps due to arguments put forward by
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Campbell, G. (2000b). "Queer theory and the creation of contextual subject access tools for gay and lesbian communities".
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with the external state of affairs (Hilary Putnam, 1975). These seminal perspectives are respectively analogous to
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Swift, D. F., Winn, V. & Bramer, D. (1978). ""Aboutness" as a strategy for retrieval in the social sciences".
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Salem, Shawky (1982). "Towards "coring" and "aboutness": An approach to some aspects of in-depth indexing".
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Aboutness and meaning: How a paradigm of subject analysis can illuminate queer theory in literary studies
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Information seeking and subject representation: An activity-theoretical approach to information science
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Frohmann, B. (1990). "Rules of indexing: A critique of mentalism in information retrieval theory".
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CAIS 2000. Canadian Association for Information Science: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference
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Towards a theory of aboutness, subject, topicality, theme, domain, field, content... and relevance
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Bruza, P. D., Song, D. W., & Wong, K. F. (2000). "Aboutness from a commonsense perspective".
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Languages of indexing and classification. A linguistic study of structures and functions
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Building Puzzles And Growing Pearls: A Qualitative Exploration Of Determining Aboutness
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Mark Petersen, A. (1979). "The meaning of "about" in fiction indexing and retrieval".
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Holley, R., and Joudrey, D.N. (2021). "Aboutness and Conceptual Analysis: A Review",
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Hutchins, W. J. (1977). "On the problem of "aboutness" in document analysis".
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Hutchings, W. J. (1978). "The concept of "aboutness" in subject indexing".
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52
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Fairthorne, R. A. (1969). "Content analysis, specification and control".
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Maron, M. E. (1977). "On indexing, retrieval and the meaning of about".
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something. In LIS, it is often considered synonymous with a document's
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http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/dawei/papers/aboutness-aista00.pdf
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Putnam, H. (1958). "Formalization of the concept "about"".
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51
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Journal of Information Science Principles & Practice
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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Heidegger, M. (1977). "Sein und Zeit", in Heidegger's
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Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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introducing
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library and information science
linguistics
philosophy of language
philosophy of mind
subject
intentionality
John Searle
William John Hutchins
Birger Hjørland
intentional
language of thought
semantic externalists
Ogden
Richards
Karl Popper
World 1, 2, and 3
Content analysis
Intentional stance
Theme and rheme
The ontology of subjects of works
Towards a theory of aboutness, subject, topicality, theme, domain, field, content... and relevance
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/dawei/papers/aboutness-aista00.pdf
Aboutness and meaning: How a paradigm of subject analysis can illuminate queer theory in literary studies
Building Puzzles And Growing Pearls: A Qualitative Exploration Of Determining Aboutness
The concept of "subject" in information science

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