Lexical definition

culmination of her fatalistic attitude, the greatest evidence that it would be perverse to suggest she welcomes death in her poetry as many critics have intimated. Rather, she sees it as inevitable, impossible to avoid. Throughout Totem, as the lexical fields of food and ingestion are aligned with those of blood and murder, death is accompanied by consumption, and transformed into a perverse communion where the most mundane situations, such as visiting a meat…

The principle applied here is that grammatical competence and lexical knowledge are not enough to enable students to operate efficiently in the target language. They must be able to use the language appropriate to the speech event they find themselves in. Some variables that decide the appropriateness of their language…

Marlowe’s treatment of Tamburlaine is different from other tragedies in the use of imaginative energy in the portrayal of Tamburlaine, the tyrannical protagonist. To state that Tamburlaine is an ambitious tyrant is somehow an understatement. Even when such labelling takes place on stage, as it does in the frequent invectives used against Tamburlaine by his enemies, there is a paradoxical sense of futility in the censure. It is not only the military invincibility of the protagonist that deviates…

Chapter four The notion of ambiguity was explored in the previous chapter in depth. Several categories of ambiguities have therefore been identified. In this chapter an experiment will be conducted using Personal Translator, a commercial machine translation system based on rules, and Google translate, a free online machine translation system that implements the statistical method. A brief description of these tools are given below in section one. Since a critical part of this chapter is devoted…

not reached higher levels. Apart from that, modifications based on the data from “Vocabprofiler” are given in order to reach the 98% text coverage or more, so that students can get ideal comprehension. “Vocabprofiler” (Cobb, 2002), a software for lexical text analysis, classifies the words by their frequency bands. Meanwhile, you can also see the number of words that are likely to be unknown by students. It is used to analyze the text combining with the BNC/COCA-25 (Nation & Davies), a list…

expression called ‘shoulder to shoulder’, which means two people are in the position of side by side. Then we can understand runway shoulders by way of conceptualization. Runway shoulders are joint parts of the movement area and the runway. As the definition indicates, the shoulder is a defined area adjacent to the edge of a runway. So we can see that metaphor is a very powerful and helpful way in understanding new terms. All these are metaphorical expressions for the metaphor that aerodromes…

the structures you are using but do not let them interfere with what you want to say. 3. Do not be afraid to make mistakes (mistakes are normal as you are learning a language). 4. When you are not understood, use repetition, gestures, synonyms, definitions, acting out, whatever comes naturally as you begin to feel more proficient in the language. In the communicative model of language teaching, instructors are expected to help their students develop knowledge by providing authentic practice that…

they are connected in a strictly logical way, whether they form a more associative series, they always emphasize the structure of a character’s level of awareness. All significant deviations from the normal frequencies in the areas of syntactic and lexical selection and combination can also serve to delineate a character: the frequency of certain sentence types (such as statements or questions), the predominance of active or passive forms, the use of parallelisms and antitheses, an abstract or…

while non-captioned video tends to improve listening comprehension as it facilitates recognition of aural word forms. Finally they concluded that the use of movies with subtitles can improve students’ engagement in learning and retrieval of new lexical…

Introduction Learners in classrooms across America possess a variety of English dialects, creoles, and accents. However, not all of these students are aware of the differences between their way of speaking and Standard American English or SAE. Although one’s English dialect or creole is valuable and functional in their home and community, increasing one’s proficiency in SAE for use in the educational setting will add to their “toolkit” of skills but may also require support. Explanation of…