Latent semantic indexing

In modern literary pieces, there are countless references made to other well-known works. The same is true for many classic literary works. Allusions are used to introduce and connect ideas through the reference of other external texts. The effectiveness of allusions in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Shakespeare’s Othello is undeniable as they serve many purposes, especially in strengthening themes within the texts. The allusions used in both works provide insight into the characters’ conflicts…

A primary discourse community that I am apart of is an academic one. Harris described academic discourse communities as a “…meta-community tied to no particular time or place” (Harris 14). As a college student, I am constantly writing papers and turning in assignments. Likewise, I am held at a high standard as a Miami University student to follow certain guidelines, whether it be a part of Miami’s policy or simple assignment guidelines set by the professor. As Swales talks about in an article,…

Often times when one reads a book, one would want to feel a connection to the piece of literature, to the story, and to the characters themselves. He or she does this by searching for things in the story that has a familiarity to the reader in order for them to relate and understand the message of the novel. This, then, is what authors and writers use as a guideline in writing their stories. They reference other pieces of literature that are either well-known or where readers can be familiar…

I find this ties with Freire’s philosophy in Chapter 3 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an instrument which makes dialogue possible; accordingly, we must seek its constitutive elements. (Freire 2016, p.87) Part of an excellent dialogue is being able to listen. Not just listen to hear but listen to have an understanding. While some may be…

A discourse community cannot be defined by words alone, it takes a set of specific characteristics that define each of the individuals that created a discourse community. They are what make a discourse community unique and separate from other communities. James Paul Gee’s definition of a discourse community is “A form of life that combines social languages, discourses, intertextuality, conversations, recognition, kits, and mapping” (Gee). According to Gee, these are the seven essential…

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…