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fancy words “are used to dress up a simple statement and give it an air of scientific impartiality to biased judgments” (Orwell 4). The use of scholarly diction especially in the phrase,“air of scientific impartiality to biased judgments” makes the reader believe Orwell is very intelligent, but it has a pompous connotation, almost as if to taunt the reader with some of the many intellectual words he knows. Although, the meaning of the sentence gets lost in the final phrase because his word…

Society discriminates those who are deemed “different”, thus, society discriminates immigrants. In her essay “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan shares her and her mother’s personal experiences with discrimination after moving to the United States from China. She believes that immigrants who cannot speak perfect English are unfairly judged. Non-immigrants need to understand the hardships that are faced by people who move to different countries. Speaking about discrimination, Tan utilizes parallelism,…

Introduction This essay will be discussing Multimodal discourse analysis looking at Gunther Kress’s article on discourse analysis and also looking at other theories of multimodality that can help explain how meaning making is achieved and use relevant examples as part of the discussion. Multimodal discourse analysis “choice leads to selection” Multimodal discourse analysis is the study of language not only through text and speech but mixed together with other tools or modes such as, pictures…

Lesson 4 Classic Tales Adjectives and Adverbs In the following sentences, cross out the incorrect words and write in the correct form in the blanks. If the sentence is correct as it is, write "correct" in the blank. 1. Terry plays soccer as good as Brian._______________ 2. This was surely a relaxing weekend.__________________ 4. Jane reacts more polite than Joan.________________ 5. Jane and are Amy are siblings, but they behave very different.___________ 6. I felt bad about my grades on…

deviating from ordinary writing , he ignores the capitalize in his writing to create effectiveness on an audience . on the other hand , how the poet describes love is thicker , love is an emotional expression but the word thicker is described to a touched things , his choosing this word means that cummings has another meaning in his mind. he materialized love for certain purpose maybe to create a new meaning . briefly he broke the maxims of Grice to not give the exact meaning, the poet here is…

The word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that does from a unified whole. To make a coherent text, it must contain cohesive ties. A text has texture, and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text. (Halliday and Hassan, 1976, p.1-2). Cohesion is found on many types of discourse (Tanskanen, 2006, p.2). According to Halliday and Hassan(1976) the concept of cohesion is A semantic one; it…

historically used to establish language genealogies; origin of words and the reasons why some words are commonly used between different languages. Etymology, the study of words’ history and how their form and meaning have changed over time has enhanced the process of explaining and defining the word roots. The term "the etymology of a word” means the origin of the particular word and it has been acknowledged that there are certain mechanisms where words originate through, some of which are: •…

There is no single definition of communication that is simple and fully encompasses all various facets of the word. One can consider a few approaches to understanding communication, depending on its cultural or rhetorical basis. It can be purposeful, direct, and unambiguous, or it can be quite the opposite. For the purposes of this paper, successful communication is defined as a process of constructing meaning that balances intentions with interpretations. According to Tracy and Robles, meaning…

Word associations consist of reading words and the person must respond with the first word that comes to mind. I played a version of word association during elementary school following the basic rule but never viewed it as a psychodynamic therapy. This experience, however, was the first time I viewed word association in a therapeutic format. I did not know what to expect and did not know what type of meaning word association gives. I was hesitant at the beginning of the process because word…

have been abbreviations of words, ways to make the spoken language simpler and shorter. This has become more advanced over time, but it is clear that American English, at least, is not to the point of 1984’s Newspeak. Despite the more limited vocabulary that the 2016 world has, English has eliminated few words with such basic and primal meanings and uses as “good” or “bad.” However, Newspeak has gone considerably further, to the point where they have cut out “useless” words like “bad” and…