Semantics

Erik was administered an 11th grade level passage, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, to read aloud in English. His pronunciations were extremely precise, since Erik presents no language disabilities. Only one term was mispronounced from the paragraph; “anachronism”; however, it was due to lack of exposure to the word. When the enunciation for the expression was modeled, he repeated with great articulation. It is evident the student received excellent foundations in areas of phonology and…

description as Light launches into a spirited rant that describes the object of her ire as “a canvas on which paint never dries, a clay that never sets, steel that bends in a breeze (and) a melody that when it ends, no one can whistle”, (Light 4-7). This semantic division conjures an image of Light herself angrily ranting, no longer at the poem’s intended audience, but at herself, as she is now lost in her own emotion, making her disgust palpable. As a final blow to the source of her repugnance,…

theoretically the casualty count of the bombings would have be much fewer than the impending invasion. He also wanted to prevent Soviet involvement, as well as displaying to them the might of the puissant U.S. military. To me, it just comes down to the semantics of the final ultimatum from the Potsdam Conference. Japan just wanted to maintain the integrity of someone they viewed as a deity. They were not asking for him to retain his position only to be exonerated of war crimes. They were…

Unfortunately, I have had only one session since the last research diary (my client went on vacation). Most of this diary will contain my thoughts moving forward with my research. My research question is how does manipulation of a writing genre impact the level of participation and sense of self in a shared writing activity for a client with dementia? I am focusing on different genres and improving sense of self for my client during shared writing. Since having a memory loss, he often has a…

duration for which we store what we have learned. Short-term memory has the most limitations; it is fragile and can be lost quickly. Of the two types of memory, long-term is essentially limitless and is accessed through three different types – semantic, procedural, and…

of words that they can learn and later use to create new words. To conclude, there is no need to memorize every pattern in a sentence if they can mentally create a set of rules. Learning Mohawk is actually creating new words without changing the semantic of the…

an “Honorable” history. Following that, she juxtaposes the definitions of other labels alongside, such as “Handicapped” or “Disabled,” and presents her adversity to each. Shifting to a tone that suggests disgust or perturbance, Mairs compares the semantics of other labels to other emerging…

I conducted a running record on C.J. a student in my practicum class, he read the book, Aliens in underpants, to me. This student scored In the instructional range with a ninety two percent. This book had a little over one hundred words and out of these words he made ten errors and four self-corrections. I noticed that the student was a little slower of a reader compared to other students in the class. Most of the errors he made were that he failed to use meaning and structure. He used a lot of…

some of this in his article ‘The Political Philosophy of Unauthorized Immigration’ published in the American Philosophical Association’s Spring 2011 Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino issues in Philosophy. Although Medoze looks deeper than this label-semantics to find an ‘equal’ resolution for all, his evaluation of this matter falls short in taking an ‘equal’ approach,…

position in comparison with other academic work. Since CD analysts’ work are heavily replied on social, economic, political, culture motives, their analysis needs to not only take into consideration of these aspects, but they need to be explicit about their research position and interest (Van Dijk, 2001a, Wodak and Meyer, 2009, Van Dijk, 2001b). Sharing the same goal with Critical theory, CDA’s critical epistemic knowledge about the world helps and enables us as language users to be aware of and…