Latent semantic indexing

(1) To my mind, denotation is what we observe, how we perceived from this object. Denotation represents the external concepts of our world, whereas, connotation is related to personal interpretation and experience, it has many different functions, and explores its internal thoughts. (2) In term of realizing the difference between denotation and connotation, for this week’s reading, I really like “Dude” written by Scott F.KIESLING. This article illustrates dude’s denotation and connotation in…

Today we live in an extremely different modern society, a world where many things are accepted now that wasn't in the past, a new world full of discourse communities. “A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions and ways of communicating about those goals.” “Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. I choose the discourse community…

What is generalization? Well, according to the text and class discussion, it would be best explained as a trend for learning actions or conducts to come to mind in the presence of other stimuli not in attendance/absent during guidance or learning. Generalization can also be referred to a Stimulus generalization and therefore creates the need for a response generalization. I a good example for these terms would be like a kid have a set of keys given to him and that key set had five (5) keys.…

Bradbury uses several allusions in Fahrenheit 451 to help the reader reflect the words in the story to something in there life time or in the past to help them understand the story. A allusion is when the text mentions something that you have a memory of witch brings a image to your mind and it adds meaning by referencing a person place or thing allowing you to understand the story better. My allusion is Albert Schweitzer. The allusion helps state the theme that people will eventually forget…

In the TV show Struggle Street Semiotics is used to make the viewer perceive the characters worse than what they actually are. In scenes where they make people seem like they are swearing when they aren't or in scenes when they are showing people help trying each other, the editors have made the people seem worse than what they actually are. The show is centred around a family, two teenage girls, and a homeless man. During the show we see the Dad of the family who is swearing and all his swear…

The Anime discourse community is made up of people who are fans of Japanese animated productions and Manga who are sometimes referred to as “otaku”. Not all members would identify with that term because of its derogatory connotations in Japan. People involved in the community come from a wide demographic, from many walks of life, and a wide range of ages. The discourse community allows them to come together to share their love of Japanese animation and Manga. A love and enthusiasm that some…

There are different meanings for each word that is said in a language. Especially the English language. While Precession may have been looked at as angles of torque for physics or body mechanics; in astronomy precession refers to any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters. An example would be the steady change in the orientation of the axis of rotation of the Earth. How the earth rotates and what angle it is at changes many things. The sky we see today…

To Semicolon, or not to Semicolon? Semicolons are a great way to change the structure of a sentence, separate clauses and add something new to a paper. Unfortunately, it appears there are not a lot of people who know how to use semicolons correctly, whether it is from not being taught properly, or from assumptions on how to use them. Semicolons seem professional, and they certainly can be when they are used under the right circumstances; however, inserting a semicolon where it is deemed…

I never though that conversations could be well-organized. From experience, I noticed that within speech events, a conversation usually starts with a greeting and ends with a goodbye. From reading this section on speech events, I realized that they are many opening sequences and closing sequences that I never thought that makes language unique. A long time ago, I watch Diary of the Wimpy Kid the movie. It was the scene when Greg and Rowley hid under the bleachers from playing dodge ball. When…

A discourse community is a certain group a person is a part of that has specific rules, way of communication, language, etc. I am a part of many discourse communities, but soccer is the only discourse community, I feel completely belonged to and it’s the most important discourse community for me. This discourse community reveals a lot about me as a person, and I want to explore how, or if, my behavior changes in this community. I also want to see if I am performing when my behavior changes, how…