Latent semantic analysis

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…

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…

the abstract, the data analysis of this paper uncovers many leading findings. One of the findings is the general synonym acquisition trajectory. Which is…

Introduction Children begin to learn language as soon as they are born, while they grow their language of speech and skills begin to evolve. Children learn how to communicate their feelings towards others based off of what they have learned from their environment at home. Based on what they learned before school, it affects their development of literacy. Children in the U.S. today, about one-third, lack the ability to learn. This is why language development is very important. Often teachers in…

In “My Papa’s Waltz,” Roethke uses an extended metaphor, but uses different language to describe it as the poem is read. “My Papa’s Waltz” has the metaphor of dancing throughout the poem, more correctly, waltzing between a father and son. Everything from the description of the fluidity of the dance to the speakers feeling towards the dance helps create a stronger meaning behind the metaphor. Roethke uses dancing as a metaphor for the relationship between the son and the father, according to the…

Introduction The word housewife takes its origin from a combination of the word house, a building for human habitation; and the word wife, a married woman from the perspective of her husband. The title is most widely used in referring to the occupation and state of a married woman whose work is unpaid within her home. There is often a negative connotation around the word housewife. It is readily associated with being unliberated and lazy amongst other things. However, we tend to accept…

Gravox Roxs Today’s society is run by advertisements. No matter where you look there is some form of advertising in everyday life. Whether it be in a newspaper, television ad or more commonly in today 's world, on social media. The main purpose of an advertisement is to convince viewers that it 's a necessity to have their product. Many elements go into making an ad. The essential elements include the company 's logo, a call to action, having the product present, a celebrity, colour etc. These…

Anyanwu and Appah (2013) stated that “Color symbolism, is the means whereby colors become medium or means through which messages are transmitted or the means whereby colors in themselves represent, stand for, or denote something but themselves. The colors readily convey messages by drawing us into the world of the meaning of such colors.” Meaning that every color we see has a definitive meaning. Color is merely, a phenomenon of light or visual perception that enables one to differentiate…

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 refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as a text. Cohesion occurs where the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another. The one…

Contrastive analysis identifies the structural similarities and differences between two or more languages. It has been 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…