A Kachina by Any Other Name: Linguistically Contextualizing Native
... supernatural beings from the spirit world that are central to traditional Hopi beliefs. Dancers become katsinam when they enter into ceremonies, don masks and take on the katsina character . The Hopi figures that line museum shelves and galleries are katsina tihu, traditionally made by men and given ...
... supernatural beings from the spirit world that are central to traditional Hopi beliefs. Dancers become katsinam when they enter into ceremonies, don masks and take on the katsina character . The Hopi figures that line museum shelves and galleries are katsina tihu, traditionally made by men and given ...
grammatical variation and change in spoken ontario
... reduction in verbal morphology can be ascribed to the progressive loss of or breakdown in the conditioning contexts most favourable to its maintenance. The present study contributes not only to our understanding of grammatical variation and change in Canadian varieties of French, but also to the gro ...
... reduction in verbal morphology can be ascribed to the progressive loss of or breakdown in the conditioning contexts most favourable to its maintenance. The present study contributes not only to our understanding of grammatical variation and change in Canadian varieties of French, but also to the gro ...
University of Groningen Rethinking the culture-economy
... is the meaning of a word. The difference is illustrated nicely and very interestingly in Motter et al. (2002), who defined two words similar if they represented more or less the same concepts and mapped these connections between words in the English language. They found that 'one only needs three st ...
... is the meaning of a word. The difference is illustrated nicely and very interestingly in Motter et al. (2002), who defined two words similar if they represented more or less the same concepts and mapped these connections between words in the English language. They found that 'one only needs three st ...
Brighter than Gold: Figurative Language in User
... from product reviews and annotated for figurativeness. We use this dataset to characterize figurative language in naturally occurring comparisons and reveal linguistic patterns indicative of this phenomenon. We operationalize these insights and apply them to a new task with high relevance to text un ...
... from product reviews and annotated for figurativeness. We use this dataset to characterize figurative language in naturally occurring comparisons and reveal linguistic patterns indicative of this phenomenon. We operationalize these insights and apply them to a new task with high relevance to text un ...
Molecular Perspectives on the Bantu Expansion
... implicit assumption that the modern-day distribution of ethnolinguistic groups is identical to their prehistoric distribution. However, it should be clear that the modern-day Bantu languages, which are presumed to have originated from one shared ancestor about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago as mentioned a ...
... implicit assumption that the modern-day distribution of ethnolinguistic groups is identical to their prehistoric distribution. However, it should be clear that the modern-day Bantu languages, which are presumed to have originated from one shared ancestor about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago as mentioned a ...
Intuitions and Competence in Formal Semantics
... thus concerns the function that intuitions have. The second principle is about their content, viz., about what they are intuitions of. It holds that the content of the intuitions that are relevant for linguistic theory are linguistic facts. In general terms, intuitions are about properties of, and r ...
... thus concerns the function that intuitions have. The second principle is about their content, viz., about what they are intuitions of. It holds that the content of the intuitions that are relevant for linguistic theory are linguistic facts. In general terms, intuitions are about properties of, and r ...
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... relations to his or her ancestors so precisely that for any two members of the society it would become instantly clear from these labels (Gellner refers to them as ‘names’) what, if anything, the biological relationship between the two individuals was. In one of the later papers Gellner compares the ...
... relations to his or her ancestors so precisely that for any two members of the society it would become instantly clear from these labels (Gellner refers to them as ‘names’) what, if anything, the biological relationship between the two individuals was. In one of the later papers Gellner compares the ...
Lecture 9: Figurative Language Reading Types of Figurative
... Express one concept/situation in terms of another concept/situation (including all other participants, properties and events of that situation). FEELINGS are LIQUIDS: A simple phone call had managed to stir up all these feelings. Now here I was, seething with anger is a kind of pressure valve for th ...
... Express one concept/situation in terms of another concept/situation (including all other participants, properties and events of that situation). FEELINGS are LIQUIDS: A simple phone call had managed to stir up all these feelings. Now here I was, seething with anger is a kind of pressure valve for th ...
A History of the English Language
... It is natural for people to view their own first language as having intrinsic advantages over languages that are foreign to them. However, a scientific approach to linguistic study combined with a consideration of history reminds us that no language acquires importance because of what are assumed to ...
... It is natural for people to view their own first language as having intrinsic advantages over languages that are foreign to them. However, a scientific approach to linguistic study combined with a consideration of history reminds us that no language acquires importance because of what are assumed to ...
Natural language acquisition and rhetoric in artificial intelligence
... must always remember that computers are nothing like human brains; so we have little reason to expect that they are the only other possible entity for artificial intelligence. ...
... must always remember that computers are nothing like human brains; so we have little reason to expect that they are the only other possible entity for artificial intelligence. ...
The Applications and Translations of Pun in English
... The translation of English advertising is different from other translation. Because the purpose of advertising conveys information to people, most importantly attracts people to pay attention to the commodity and makes customers trust you and your products in the advertisement in order to reach the ...
... The translation of English advertising is different from other translation. Because the purpose of advertising conveys information to people, most importantly attracts people to pay attention to the commodity and makes customers trust you and your products in the advertisement in order to reach the ...
Discourse Analysis (General Introduction)
... common to associate discourse with language use. Generally, the term refers to any spoken or written communication. In the restricted sense, early scholars of discourse saw it as any verbal exchange or conversation. In contemporary times, discourse means “actual instances of communicative action in ...
... common to associate discourse with language use. Generally, the term refers to any spoken or written communication. In the restricted sense, early scholars of discourse saw it as any verbal exchange or conversation. In contemporary times, discourse means “actual instances of communicative action in ...
- ePrints Soton
... (Knapp & Meierkord, ibid.). A plurilinguistic and hybrid composition thus characterized so-called lingua francas from their earliest history. Moving on to ELF, while English had served as a lingua franca in parts of Asia (e.g. India and Singapore) and Africa (e.g. Nigeria and Kenya) since they were ...
... (Knapp & Meierkord, ibid.). A plurilinguistic and hybrid composition thus characterized so-called lingua francas from their earliest history. Moving on to ELF, while English had served as a lingua franca in parts of Asia (e.g. India and Singapore) and Africa (e.g. Nigeria and Kenya) since they were ...
Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua
... gap is highly problematic. First, the (generally vague) definition of ‘synonymy’ becomes crucial in the consideration of functional gaps. Second, it is not entirely clear what should be understood as functional as opposed to grammatical. For example, Campbell (1993) labels the borrowing of conjuncti ...
... gap is highly problematic. First, the (generally vague) definition of ‘synonymy’ becomes crucial in the consideration of functional gaps. Second, it is not entirely clear what should be understood as functional as opposed to grammatical. For example, Campbell (1993) labels the borrowing of conjuncti ...
semiotic mediation, language and society: three exotripic theories
... and the last three decades have seen a steady growth of scholarship around the concept. Nonetheless, it seems to me that the concept has itself not been fully interpreted, with the result that its impressive reach across the many concerns of human life has remained invisible. In this section I will ...
... and the last three decades have seen a steady growth of scholarship around the concept. Nonetheless, it seems to me that the concept has itself not been fully interpreted, with the result that its impressive reach across the many concerns of human life has remained invisible. In this section I will ...
WHAT IS MEANT BY DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?
... Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic character of the categories of speech and writing is increasingly being challenged, especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and practices on the Interne ...
... Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic character of the categories of speech and writing is increasingly being challenged, especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and practices on the Interne ...
Discourse and creativity - Reading`s CentAUR
... Austin’s speech act theory all see discourse itself as a kind of social action and explore how people use it to both make sense of and to alter the circumstances of their social and material worlds. More recent approaches to discourse such as mediated discourse analysis (Jones and Jones et al., this ...
... Austin’s speech act theory all see discourse itself as a kind of social action and explore how people use it to both make sense of and to alter the circumstances of their social and material worlds. More recent approaches to discourse such as mediated discourse analysis (Jones and Jones et al., this ...
Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
... France) remind me of national borders on an almost daily basis. They also remind me of, and inscribe, my identity as a German citizen because this is the passport I carry, and this is the passport I must not forget to put in my car in case I am checked as I cross one of those borders. Furthermore, i ...
... France) remind me of national borders on an almost daily basis. They also remind me of, and inscribe, my identity as a German citizen because this is the passport I carry, and this is the passport I must not forget to put in my car in case I am checked as I cross one of those borders. Furthermore, i ...
introduction to contrastive linguistics
... characteristics of each language and gaining a deeper insight into their specific features. But it was not until after World War II that the discipline reached its heyday. From its beginnings till the 1970s, CL basically served practical pedagogical purposes in foreign and second language teaching/l ...
... characteristics of each language and gaining a deeper insight into their specific features. But it was not until after World War II that the discipline reached its heyday. From its beginnings till the 1970s, CL basically served practical pedagogical purposes in foreign and second language teaching/l ...
Singlish on the Web.
... Rodney Moag, John Pride, John Spencer, Peter Strevens, Ayo Bamgbose, Braj Kachru, R B Le Page. The work of people like this, which began in the 1960s, allowed us to look at the English of places like Singapore, India, Nigeria, Fiji, and Jamaica analytically. But one heritage from this pioneering wor ...
... Rodney Moag, John Pride, John Spencer, Peter Strevens, Ayo Bamgbose, Braj Kachru, R B Le Page. The work of people like this, which began in the 1960s, allowed us to look at the English of places like Singapore, India, Nigeria, Fiji, and Jamaica analytically. But one heritage from this pioneering wor ...
ASSIGNMENTS: ENG1101: What Is Grammar? (Rodgers)
... crucial aspect of the word's meaning, and that is its social context. Thanks to the growing body of insights from linguistics, the contrast sharpens between what we know about how each individual processes language and, at the other extreme, the conventions of written, public literacy codified by tr ...
... crucial aspect of the word's meaning, and that is its social context. Thanks to the growing body of insights from linguistics, the contrast sharpens between what we know about how each individual processes language and, at the other extreme, the conventions of written, public literacy codified by tr ...
The Importance of Motivation in Second Language Acquisition
... of him/her. Intrinsic motivation refers to the motivation which is originated inside a person. There is no reward except the activity itself. It means that the essence of motivated action that is, sense of autonomy and the desire is self-initiating and self-regulating while in extrinsic motivation t ...
... of him/her. Intrinsic motivation refers to the motivation which is originated inside a person. There is no reward except the activity itself. It means that the essence of motivated action that is, sense of autonomy and the desire is self-initiating and self-regulating while in extrinsic motivation t ...
05 di martino zollo:05 di martino zollo
... becomes socially useful only if we are able to communicate it, which she put into practice, in fact she had great success in supporting her husband in his brewery business and later even in sustaining him in winning the political election. In Hester’s Circle social and political news were discussed ...
... becomes socially useful only if we are able to communicate it, which she put into practice, in fact she had great success in supporting her husband in his brewery business and later even in sustaining him in winning the political election. In Hester’s Circle social and political news were discussed ...
II. A Certain Inheritance: Nineteenth Century German
... development of anthropological and linguistic thinking (in hindsight marking the beginning of a modern philosophy of language). Although this essay already contained what would become one of Herder’s most original contributions, his concept of pluralism evolving out of his thoughts on language (as l ...
... development of anthropological and linguistic thinking (in hindsight marking the beginning of a modern philosophy of language). Although this essay already contained what would become one of Herder’s most original contributions, his concept of pluralism evolving out of his thoughts on language (as l ...
Linguistic Interference from Hindi in Indian English
... In Indian context „Linguistic Interference from Hindi in Indian English' is an acute requirement of time for the growth and development of English Language. It must not be considered as a mistake or an error because most of the time it is an intentional activity for some very specific reasons; like ...
... In Indian context „Linguistic Interference from Hindi in Indian English' is an acute requirement of time for the growth and development of English Language. It must not be considered as a mistake or an error because most of the time it is an intentional activity for some very specific reasons; like ...