Semantic network

How do mythological allusions in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves establish the novel’s setting of the house on Ash Tree Lane? Introduction Literature has, since its conception, maintained a close relationship with religion and mythology – not only through religious texts and mythical canon. Much prose and poetry embrace the use of allusions: textual references to other works or bodies, and these references serve to better elaborate a part of the text and/or connect the reader to the text…

Discourse Community Paper Communication is the basic element in any society. We communicate in different aspects of our lives through different forms of communication such as letters, spoken, visual, and more suitable for the different discourse communities we belong to. Each discourse community has its own rules; they have their language, topics of interest, and characteristics that make them unique. In this essay I will describe the four major discourse communities I belong to: my family,…

Semantic satiation is the occurrence when something is said so many times that it temporarily loses its meaning or sounds weird. This means that through uninterrupted repetition, a word loses its relationship with its definition and pronunciation. This effect allows authors to change the meaning of the word and therefore the story, without altering the word itself. Many critics, like Barbara Bengels, say that The Turn of the Screw’s uniqueness comes from its ability to perplex the reader and…

According to Ford (2001), language mixing is the term used to describe the phenomenon of communication though the usage of two languages as if they were one language. Ford (2001) states that mixing is unconscious and is used by child without regard of their interlocutor's understanding of both languages. This means that the child is only using words that he/she has learned to communicate their needs at the given moment. Alina demonstrated a significant amount of language mixing errors also known…

Ambiguity results from the absence of adequate information due to the complexity, newness, or insolubility of a specific situation (Budner, 1962). McLain (1993, p. 183) refers to ambiguity as ‘perceived insufficiency of information regarding a particular stimulus or context’. Tolerance of ambiguity is defined as an inclination to comprehend contradictory, vague, unstructured, and deficient information (Adorno, Frenkel, Levinson & Sanford, 1950). At the same time, from McLain’s viewpoint (1993, p…

Words are really just a sequence of noises to which humanity has assigned meaning. Some of these constructed meanings hold different levels of significance to different people. People will try to latch on to whatever meaning they can find because it is reassuring to have something, even as seemingly insignificant as a single word, with which they can find a personal connection. One word that has personal significance to me is “pretentiousness”. “Pretentiousness” is a noun, originating from the…

Aritomo proposing to tattoo Yun Ling/ In comparison to Duffys "art" There are antagonistic undertones of using "needles as Aritomo 's primary apparatus to transact Yun Ling 's horimono, convenes the wider conflicts of antithesizing ideologies and motif 's presiding throughout the novel. Yun Ling 's angst and apprehension of the discomfort the needles will possibly inflict, is reassured by Aritomo 's analogy of likening the needle to that of a Paintbrush ("I will paint you"), he has therefore…

Cool is a simple word that we use in our everyday lives as human beings. Despite it being such a simple word, it has wide-spread of meanings throughout the world. Some meanings are considered formal while some are consider slang. Some present a positive connotation while others present a negative connotation. Some uses of the word cool are used more often than others. The dictionary actually has a total of twenty-six definitions, all of them are correct, but the order of these definitions should…

Mark Doty’s way of starting a poem is to talk about death and it has clearly caught the audience’s eye. “Tiara” is a poem about an alcoholic gay man who dies of AIDS in hospice. Doty doesn’t use any rhythm or rhyme, but with his use of allusions and symbolism, “Tiara” is an easy to understand poem with a high significance that gets the audience in and the tears flowing. “Tiara” is the type of poem to show the complexity of the AIDS epidemic in a simple and graceful way that affects the reader…

Analyzation of the Biblical Text in Luke 14:25-35 The writing in Luke 14:25-35 is an adaptation of the costs of being a disciple of Christ. The setting for this pericope is crucial because it gives people insight on what Jesus was doing at that time. Furthermore, the pericope opens with “large crowds were traveling with him.”(Luke 14:25, NRSV) meaning that the crowd found something in Jesus because they were traveling with him toward Jerusalem. Moreover, these ‘large crowds’ had left their homes…