Lexeme

Dissimilar Communication Language and one’s ability to communicate with others in some form is an essential part of the everyday lives of both humans and animals. There are endless forms of communication, for “language is more than just words” (Fowler 98). In her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler focuses on the importance of language and communication in the lives of the Cooke family and their chimpanzee daughter Fern. Throughout the novel, Mr. and Mrs. Cooke…

Within the past decade many controversial issues have been presented in the public’s eyes, with one of the biggest ones undoubtedly being gay marriage. This idea of gay marriage being legalized first came about “On November 18, 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Court invalidated the exclusion of same-sex couples from the states marriage laws” (Shearer). Since then this idea has blown up in the media and it has become a cultural phenomenon. This issue has become difficult to discuss in the…

Explanation : The pericope is holding together by the use of ειγως and the use of ὑμῶν -- you plural (7 times). “Between verses 13 and 14 a copulative και occurs. Verses 14a and 14b are set in juxtaposition to ᾳλλας.” Verse 15 is introduced by ποῦ οὖν and a rhetorical question. “The following clause is introduced by γαρ plus a speech orienter μαρτυρῶ ὑμῖν.” Overall, this paragraph could in a way be looked at as an appeal based on a personal relationship. “It’s reminding the Galatians…

The euphemism treadmill is a linguistic mechanism proposed to explain the continual replacement of formerly benign expressions that become pejorative, with new terms that eventually meet the same fate. Advocacy by the political correctness movement accounts for much of this cyclical euphemism generation and substitution. Researchers have sought analogies from other academic disciplines to elucidate the euphemism treadmill. This paper identifies and compares two abstractions from the science of…

Introduction: Language can be seen and heard; it can be diverse or standard. With this in mind, discuss the different roles that language can have in a child’s life. Language is an essential part of being human and it is unique to humans alone. Language is not one simple, single thing, it is a complex array of elements. The way we speak language has ‘grammatically correct’ rules , it has shared meaning, it is something that is physically present in the world (written word, speech) and it is…

1.Definition of Ambiguity Ambiguity, as is defines in the Webster’s Third International Dictionary, is”the condition of admitting of two or more meanings, of being understood in more than one way, or of referring to two of more things at the same time.” In ordinary books on linguistics, the term is generally defined roughly as a linguistic phenomenon that a word, phrase or clause can have more than one possible interpretation. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended…

There are few empirical studies conducted to test the validity of the proposed models. Cienki (2004, 2005a, 2005b) are the first contribution to the linguistic investigation of the models. He merged between the quantitative and qualitative approaches. Cienki (2004) conducted an analysis in order to empirically testing Lakoff’s models. His corpus was a televised debates between George W. Bush and Al Gore before the US before the presidential campaign in October 2000. Cienki searched for the…

INTRODUCTION Why is the red color in the stop sign and why does green mean "go"? Why does the bride wear white, and black is the color of mourning and sadness? Why does an optimist see the world in bright colors and a romantic person pursues the "blue dream"? This work discusses color and its place in culture. A lot of things in the reality surrounding us we perceive by means of colors and through them. Color terms bear in themselves much more information than it might seem at first glance.…