Lexeme

to the process of taking a common word and giving it a new, technical meaning. The most common example is the word "cloud". Up until 1996, everybody knew what a cloud was and how to use the word linguistically. Between 1996 and 2006, however, this lexeme was terminologized and took on a new meaning within the tech world. Other similar terms terminologized by the tech work include virus, infection, worm, and the phrases "off the grid" and "Trojan…

10) (9) "Have you drawers enough, dear?" asked she. (Gaskell 26) (10) Whatever the old girl says, do--do it!" (Dickens 441) The presented results show there are no marked gender differences between the authors in their choice of the most frequent lexemes to give positive characterisation of women heroines. This selection of adjectives create an image of a woman as a weak, good looking, and delightful creature. Such image corresponds to the conventional view on the status and social role of…

Every American should recognize this phrase as the slogan for Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign. How could one not? It was plastered across social media, on hats, t-shirts, everywhere for the months leading up to the election. This slogan rallied voters behind Trump’s campaign invoking great3 emotional response from voters. While Trump constituents supported this statement, and did indeed want to “Make America Great Again”, the campaign faced countless critics. Bill Clinton criticized…

There are many computational speech production models regarding serial language processing. In these models the stages are independent and information flow is unidirectional/top-down – lemma level processes feed lexeme level processes, but not the other way around. One of the most widely known and discussed speech production models was proposed by Bock & Levelt (1994). This model presented four distinct stages of processing. The process begins at the conceptual stage, a message-level…

The constant repetition of the lexeme “Hail” and their employment of trochaic tetrameter (“When shall we three meet again”) is one of the key resemblances of their discernable differences that are not just physical but are evident in their behaviour as well. Shakespeare chooses to make…

The sonnet is a poetic model which is deeply entrenched in English literary tradition; the sonnet, following its introduction to England during the Renaissance, the sonnet form enjoyed a vogue between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which reached its apogee in 1609, following the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets; the form then befell a period of momentous neglect wherein an ‘occasional’ sonnet vogue emerged, which worsened due to the cultural distance eighteenth century writers imposed…

The study of human between Chimpanzee has been an old study that until today day it's still realized to show a connection between both of them. Scientifics usually test different things to see if there is any connection between anything it can be living and nonliving things, but especially living things as animals. In we are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler the main character, Rosemary, recap her childhood as an object and part of an experiment between a chimpanzee and her.…

Violence is a prominent characteristic of society’s general disposition. John Silvester criticises this prevalence in his opinion article, “Ending violence calls for drastic measures.” Through a detailed disclosure of the detrimental effects of violence, Silvester emphasises the need for these “drastic measures”, and calls on his audience (parents of adolescents) to take a stand against the issue. Silvester employs the use of a forthright tone to project an air of dominance, therefore presenting…

Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” A Doll’s House is a thrilling piece of literary work by Henrik Ibsen. The major characters’ personalities in the play, the setting, plot, symbols, language, and comic elements in the play paint a true picture of how things were for women and marriage back in the old days. The same aforementioned elements of the play also show how far society has come from the ways of people in past generations. One of the major characters in A Doll’s House is Nora…

(2000) claims that the term false friends (or false equivalents, false cognates, deceptive words, deceptive cognates, faux amis) can be defined in distinct ways depend on the researcher. However, researchers agree that false friends are simply: the lexemes, words, phrases or constructions which are similar in spelling and pronunciation when compared with two or more languages but which do not carry the same…