General semantics

In general, the Pre-Pharmacy Association is created with the mission to help it members to be involved in the school activity and provide them with resources and opportunities in order to introduce them to the world of pharmacy major. For this is an educational…

Laraine Shawa Discourse Community: A discourse community can be defined as a group of people who link up in order to pursue objectives that are prior to those of socialization. Which basically means it’s a group of people that share the same interests and goals and communicate in a certain way. These discourse communities have several different genres including: books, debates, sports, lectures and more. You need to master specific terminologies in order to be a part of a specific discourse…

The word language is defined as “the system of communication used by a particular community or country.” Language gives the people a great source of communication a way to represent yourself and your identity. Chicano Spanish is a language created and used by bilingual Spanish/ English speakers to communicate with each other. As people come to a new country the norm is no longer the language they speak, but a new one they have to learn. It may be difficult for them to learn a new language,…

Harry Potter and the Discourse Communities A discourse community is a group of people who share interests, values, and language. A discourse community can have a lot of different elements such as: audience, purpose, topics, conventions, and language. People are involved in many discourse communities at once such as family and work. In the famous book Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, a wizarding school called Hogwarts chose Harry. At Hogwarts he is sorted into a group of young witches and wizards…

fate, it initially meant “allotted or decreed by fate or destiny; destined, fated” (OED, 2015). Up until the early 16th century, circa 1518, its various definitions continued to revolve around the idea of “destiny”, portraying the largely stagnant semantic change lasting for almost two centuries. Its initial borrowing likely came as a result of the Norman Conquest of 1066, which placed French and English speakers linguistically in close contact, and subsequently large amounts of words were…

orthogonally; younger and older children, (Appendix, A. Figure 1). Similar the second study aimed to examine lexical organization in 12 mandarin – English bilingual and 12 English monolingual children between the ages of 5-8 years. Lexical semantics is a field of semantics that looks at meaning of words and the relations between them (Oxford University Press, 2015).The experiment had two parts to it one comparing L1 and L2 in bilingual children and comparing bilingual and monolingual…

Tattoos are more than just ink on a body, it is a way to learn more about a person and be able to see the conections a person had through each tattoo. Tattoos have become a part of our everyday society. Societies youth have made tattoos as casual as receiving a haircut or a new style of clothing. Parents and teenagers are in a never ending battle over tattoos and the purposes behind them. Were these tattoos for rebellion or were they for expression? Tattoos and piercings offer a way for…

are kept. A writing center provides opportunities for children’s language development to be enhanced. Three language-related goals for this activity center are: phonological (awareness of the connections between speech sounds and written symbols), semantic (awareness that pictures and symbols communicate meaning and print carries a message), and syntactic (awareness that messages can be created through using a range of preconventional and conventional…

Beyond the Socially Acceptable There are many things that can be said about Decadent poetry. It’s central themes are numerous, from aestheticism and beauty for the sake of it, to paganism and the urban, there are a multitude of angles one can take when analysing and interpreting the work of the poets of the fin du siècle. One of those themes is the idea of transgression; going beyond the limits and the law, exploring what is socially acceptable and more importantly what isn’t, and the…

Writing is a very complex form of communication, grammar and punctuation can convert a message and determine the meaning of a sentence, much like intonation in speech. But does that necessarily mean that grammar ultimately defines the overall meaning of a text? In this article Stanley Fish the author of “Say it ain't so”states that the ultimate purpose of writing is to communicate or persuade an audience. Additionally, Fish also firmly believes that language in not mainly about self expression…