Linguistic prescription

One of the things I thought about in the Disabilities Study and now think about that can really apply throughout all of the different studies is representation. When writing about Gender Studies with Into the Beautiful North I sort of blamed the book falls short of a feminist viewpoint on the fact that the author was a male. Now with Disability Studies, there is a huge theme about there not being any roles or characters that have a disability in which the story does not revolve around their…

I completely agree with the evolutionary view Klein et al. suggested, that the function of episodic memory is providing information storages of counter-examples of semantic summary, to achieve adaptive decision rules that guide organism’s behaviors. However, contrary to this argument, I really could not find out any specific episodic memories correspond with this claim. I found most of my episodic memories now I can remember are about non-social, non-human related ones, contrary to evidence…

As referred above the masks of the Middle Sepik River come out in a variety of forms each embellished with different designs and materials. Luckily, I have provided two rather diverse masks from this region which include: A Dance Mask with Bird totem from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and a Gra from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With these objects, I hope to provide readers with a broad overlook on the different characteristics these masks may or may not share with each other. We will first…

Söderfeldt, & Risberg, 2000). This is due to the ability to process, understand, and respond to sign language, which engages the brain and leads to greater mental flexibility. In addition, this study on sign language and its influence on linguistic, non-linguistic skills, brain plasticity, and memory have shown that early acquisition of sign language has a positive influence in developing mental skills. The Deaf use sign language as their communication with others who can also understand signed…

Have you ever heard a certain word and you are immediately brought back to a certain memory? Maybe you hear the word “summer” and you can almost feel the sun beating on your skin and smell the fresh ocean air. Maybe it’s a negative memory. Maybe you hear the word “Valentine’s day,” and instantly drown in thoughts of heartbreak and can feel the regret of overindulging in chocolate and wine in your stomach. For me, it’s the word “kolache,” and it is not a good experience. You are probably…

In Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, the Queen stressed that she had no voice after becoming aware of the timelessness of Mozart and Beethoven’s voices or, in their case, their music, which lived even after their deaths. To have a voice is to leave a legacy, of some sort, behind. Even though the Queen was a well-known and influential figure, she felt that after her eventual death, she would only exist as a memory and there was nothing physical and “alive” to remember her by, which truly…

For me utilizing oral history to further promote social justice and activism is a key goal. Each of the reading for today highlight the need for engaged forms of oral history. Although each of the pieces for today differ in tone, style, and methodology all encourage the need for multifaceted, dynamic and multipurpose oral histories. The Lovell and Lutz article provided commentary on Stoll’s disclaims on Menchu’s oral history. Lovell and Lutz find that Stoll’s study was childish and distracts…

Imagine you are in a situation where you are having a conversation with someone and you are trying to explain your thoughts and ideas, but you can’t. Something is stopping you from saying what you want, you begin using gestures, and suddenly it is like charades. That is exactly what young children and even older adults experience when living with expressive language disorder. When it comes to expressive language disorder, all of your thoughts and ideas are right there in your head, but the words…

Summary Ajit Narayanan describes his work surrounding children with autism. With regard to language, the main issue that children on the spectrum experience is difficulty with abstraction and symbolism. After all, language is an arbitrary representation of reality. Therefore, pictures rather than words have been shown to aid these children with comprehension. In particular, Narayanan (2014) developed a program called Avaz, which essentially converts sequenced pictures into spoken sentences.…

In this section, we describe the experimental setup of our several runs. Baseline Run: At rst, we used the training dataset of 1.6 million tweets of sentiment140 dataset to train the Naive-Bayes classier for classifying the sentiment of the test set, which we considered as our baseline. In this run, we just use the bag-of-words (BoW) feature and did not perform any text preprocessing task. Run1: At Run1, we consider the similar kind of setup like Baseline Run. But here we incorporate our text…