Wednesday‚ February 18‚ 2009 Meeting 1 (What is semantics?) What is Semantics? FOLK NAMES TECHNICAL TERMS CONTENT • Meaning • Wordings (words & structures) • (discourse) semantics • Lexico-grammar EXPRESSION • Sounds/letters • Phonology/graphology A tri-stratal semiotic system of language When the lights are out‚ they are invisible. When the stars are out‚ they are visible. There are three types of context: 1) Situational context what the speakers know about what they can see around
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works of literature. Choose a novel (Poisonwood Bible in this case) in which a morally ambiguous character plays a pivotal role. Then write an essay in which you explain how the character can be viewed as morally ambiguous and why his or her moral ambiguity is significant to the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary. 1 ½-2 pages is the suggested length. In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible‚ the cast of characters is a complex one. Therefore‚ little is black and white when
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Notes for English II **What is culture? 1. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social‚ ethnic‚ or age group 2. | the total of the inherited ideas‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and knowledge‚ which constitute the shared bases of social action | 3. | the total range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions‚ which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group: the Mayan culture | 4. | the artistic and social pursuits‚ expression‚ and tastes
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An anti-hero is a literary concept with long tradition. The idea of an antithesis to an anti-hero began its first appear in literature as early as in the Greek novel Don Quixote‚ but the bloom of a modern time anti-hero can be traced back to the period of Romanticism. Through the view of an anti-hero‚ we are ultimately challenged to look at ourselves and our contemporary world and recognise the complexity of human condition. In Clockwork Orange and Unforgiven‚ the dichotomist relationship between
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designers in Europe‚ by the way he used to design the princess trends. During the 80’s‚ rock fashion was positioned as the biggest influence on this period. It brought the long hair‚ platinum and blonder‚ hair dying‚ glitters‚ lots of makeup‚ sexual ambiguity and fight jeans. All the all‚ Hollywood has always been a huge fashion model. Fashion market‚ has pretty much always been‚ created and directed mainly to women. Colorful stuff was always been created for men. To finish‚ the must identify the importance
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Andre Dubus’ “Killings” and Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” both deal with violence and the moral ambiguity surrounding it‚ although the authors employ different approaches based on the emotional response they are trying to create in the reader. Because the stories are set in dissimilar environments‚ the way in which the authors depict violence is geared to the setting in which it occurs. However‚ the harmful effects of violence on the human psyche are portrayed in similar ways in
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I. AN INTRODUCTION Suppose the eye of a moderately skilled adult reader (henceforth‚ THE READER) were to fall on this sentence‚ and that he were to read it aloud. - One second after his initial fixation‚ only the first word will have been uttered. But during that second‚ a number of events will have transpired in the mind of the Reader. If we knew the train of events‚ we would know about the different reading processes. If we knew these processes‚ we would know what the child must learn to
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DMBA 610 Individual Paper Assignment Week 2: Critical Thinking and Decision making Assignment: Individual Paper Assignment: Individual Paper (15%) Your instructor will post a business memo that you will need to analyze applying the critical thinking model discussed in Asking the Right Questions. In a short paper (7-8 double-spaced pages) apply all of the steps of the critical thinking model to assess the arguments made in the memo. Include all of the steps. Leaving out discussion
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Several morally ambiguous characters played different vital roles in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In fact‚ most characters illustrated in this twisted novel can be evaluated as possesing "good" and "evil" qualities. Sonia Marmeladov is especially ambiguous and important in this novel. Her contradicting social and moral statuses along with her contrasting roles as a saintly liberator and sinner allowed Sonia to play a crucial role throughout the novel. Not only that but her character
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chronological order. The temporal structure of the film serves two proposes: to mimic the process of human of recollection‚ and to allow the viewer to understand the nature of anterograde amnesia‚ an ailment that Leonard Shelby suffers from. The ambiguity in the ending of Nolan’s work raises many questions about the reliability of human memory. Throughout the movie‚ the audience is forced to ask repeatedly if the “memory” of the protagonist can be trusted‚ and eventually doubt the fidelity of human
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