BAÜ FBE Dergisi Cilt:9‚ Sayı:1‚ 3-18 Temmuz 2007 Type and typology in architectural discourse Yasemin Đ. GÜNEY* Balıkesir University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering‚ Department of Architecture Çağış BALIKESĐR Abstract Typology is the comparative study of physical or other characteristics of the built environment into distinct types. In this paper‚ the historical transformation of type and typology concepts since the Enlightenment has been examined in three developing stages based
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Learners February 2012 Introduction The acquisition and appropriate use of grammatical constructions have always been one of the significant dimensions of foreign language teaching. They have always been at the center of attention in any approach or method focusing on teaching and learning a foreign language. Researchers are always concerned with finding a new way to help foreign language learners learn the rules of the second language better. "Existential sentences" or existential constructions (ECs)
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1.Discourse Studies in Modern Linguistics 1.1Discourse .Discourse has been defined by different linguists ‚and each one gives specific definition to it ‚and we will go through all of them . In other words discourse is a buzzword and used in many different ways. The term discourse refers “both to what a text producer meant by a text and what a text means to the receiver” (Widdowson 2007: 7). As Widdowson claims‚ “people produce texts to get a message across‚ to express ideas and beliefs‚ to explain
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Organizational metaphor. People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals‚ needs‚ and motives (Thomas Mann quotes). What is a metaphor? Metaphor (met-uh-fawr‚ -fer) a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. In organizational behaviour‚ the metaphors help people understand all we need to know about an organization. Gareth Morgan proposed near in 80´s‚ the eight
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------------------------------------------------- Carefully explain Descartes’ cogito and his attempt to build his knowledge structure from the ground up. (Be as succinct as possible.) Does Descartes succeed or fail in that attempt? Justify your answer in full. Descartes’ Epistemology This essay attempts to explain Descartes’ epistemology of his knowledge‚ his “Cogito‚ Ergo Sum” concept (found in the Meditations)‚ and why he used it [the cogito concept] as a foundation when building his structure of knowledge. After explaining
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René Descartes By: Geaney Pacursa René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the ’Father of Modern Philosophy’‚ and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings‚ which are studied closely to this day. In particular‚ his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes’ influence
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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1. our biome is located in Russia 2. Climate in the taiga is cold‚ with average annual temperatures from about +5 to -5 C. Precipitation varies‚ from about 20 cm of precipitation per year to over 200 cm. 3. Many plant species are found in the Taiga‚ but coniferous trees are obviously the dominant plant form. These trees shed snow easily‚ and they retain their needles through the winter. The needles themselves are well-adapted‚ with thick waxy coatings and small surface area‚ to resist
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Rene Descartes was a rationalist‚ meaning he thought that reason alone‚ not sensation or experience‚ was the source to attaining knowledge about the eternal truths of the universe‚ such as mathematics‚ epistemology‚ metaphysics and the existence of God. He excluded physics from this list‚ admitting that knowledge of physics only comes through experience (Descartes). Regardless‚ his rationalistic epistemology made it so that Descartes could only accept the truth about something if it was based upon
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Discourse Analysis Discourse Analysis is a range of research approaches that are based on the use of language. Parker (1994 cited in Willig 2001‚ p. 107) presents discourse as a “system of statements which constructs an object and an array of subject positions" and in 1999 as patterns of meaning used to organize various symbolic systems in which people reside‚ enabling the exchange of meaning. Discourse analysis considers that that there is no one true view or interpretation. Interpretations
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