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Part Of The Sentence E.G. It
2,329 wordsDifferent syntactical phenomena may serve as an expressive stylistic means. Its expressive effect may be based on the absence of logically required components of speech - parts of the sentence, formal words or on the other hand on a superabundance of components of speech; they may be founded on an unusual order of components of speech, the change of meaning of syntactical constructions and other phenomena. Ellipsis. Elliptical sentences are sentences in which one or more words are omitted, leavi...
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Use Of The Word
639 wordsLondon In London, William Blake portrays a very dark and abysmal picture of London. Throughout the whole poem, Blake never mentions a positive scene. The poem seems to deal with the lower class part of society, the part which lives in the poor neighborhoods. The first stanza begins with the speaker wandering around London. Throughout the poem, Blake repeats a word which he used in one line, in the next line. An example of this can be seen in the first two lines. He uses the word chartered in the...
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Segmental Units And Express Different Modificational Meanings
1,094 words1. The subject of Theoretical Grammar. Different approaches to the analysis of l-ge phenomena. L. Incorporates the 3 constituent parts. These parts are the phonological system, the lexical system, the grammatical system. Only the unity of these 3 elements forms a l-ge. The phonological syst. determines the material (phone tical) appearance of its significative units. The lexical syst. is the whole set of naming means of l-ge, that is, w-ds and word-groups. The gr. syst. is the whole set of regul...
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Offensive Word
608 wordsFuck! Is that offensive to you Why is the word censored such a taboo word in the English language as opposed to its definition of copulation It would seem to make sense that if a word is offensive its meaning would be twice that. Strangely, sex is not an offensive word at all, and is used frequently in formal conversations and writings. Upon questioning, not one person could give a concrete answer on why the word offended them, they would simply say oh, just because, and dont use that kind of la...
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Gay As An Independent Adjective Meaning Homosexual
478 wordsGay The word gay originated from the Old High German word gahi, which means rapid and impetuous. In the twelfth century, the word gahi gave rise to the Middle French word gai, meaning merry and happily excited. The English word gay was borrowed from the Middle French word gai in the fourteenth century. The word gay greatly reflects the cultural changes in English speaking countries. In English, the word was used to indicate excessive heterosexual activity. However, today, the word gay is often a...
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Time The Slang Word Faggot
642 wordsIn popular culture words are often taken out of context to mean something other than what you will read in a dictionary, commonly referred to as slang. Classic examples of this throughout recent history is the word "bad" meaning good, or "sucks" implying bad, or "blows" also, oddly enough meaning bad. If it is not already evident slang almost never makes any matter of the original meaning of a word. One of the newest editions to the dictionary of slang can be heard walking down the hall of any s...
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Words
330 wordsEnglish, and perhaps every other language, has systematic arrangements for deictic words, which shows again that that these words have meanings that can be divided into smaller pieces that we can call 'sy mantic atoms' (provided that they do not need to be further divided). Superficially, the systems of English, Spanish and Japanese are rather different, which is one reason why we can seldom translate them word for word. Nevertheless, when we look closely at the sy mantic elements underlying the...
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Slang Word
461 wordsFrom wicked good, to psychedelic, to "word", there is no reason why older generations never understand what the youth today consider the latest slang. Our ever-growing vocabulary, to express our emotions and feelings, is never consistent or rigid in its capacity. However, one word that I have not only grown accustomed to in my daily life but also of my mother's generation is the single syllable, "cool". When something becomes common, it is hard to tell when it began. The usage of cool as a gener...
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Use Of Swear Words
379 wordsLuis A. Galindo L'opez. Has insulting become a habit? Nowadays the use of swear-words has become a normal form of speech among population, and probably even more extensive among teenagers. The reasons why insulting is so widespread in modern society may range substantially amongst the different social groups in which society is stratified. It is clear that nowadays insulting might seem to be more natural than some decades before, but this fact becomes very clear once we take into account the evo...
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Word Wodge
681 wordsLynne TorgersonMs. KuzmenkovEnglish 10111-28-00 Wodge: A Definition 'I don't want a great wodge of prose, but about double what we have at present. ' (Ezra Pound, 1913) The word wodge, whose meaning can be surmised from its heavy, lumpish sound, is not particularly common in American usage. It is, however, a wonderful word that ought to be given more recognition. It offers a more vivid description than its synonyms, for example, blob, cluster, or clump. A highly descriptive word, wodge is develo...
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Peterborough The Quaker Building
1,128 wordsThe Relationships Between Quaker, The Company, and SemioticsKOREY SHIENFIELDCS 1001/9/97 For my presentation I have looked at one of Peterborough's oldest and biggest manufacturer, The Quaker company. More specifically the outside and inside of the building. As I was driving towards the building I thought, what was so significant about the Quaker building and how could a picture of a Quaker be so significant in today's culture. I also thought that this whole image of Quaker could not be that ove...
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Relatively Modern For English Language Word
1,106 wordsThere are not that many words in English that can be, without any change in their grammar structure, both a verb, a noun, several slang nouns, and a transitive verb (that is the one that derived form the noun). The verbal meaning of can came to our language from either Old High German kan (in modern German it is kann and has the same meaning as English can) or from Old Englishs cu nnan which meant to know more. If we think for a moment about the meaning of being able to do something as can presc...
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Next Two Words
948 wordsHave you ever had an argument with your parents or your children that ended in the words, "You don't understand me at all" Almost everyone has heard or spoken these words at least once before. Is this a true statement Is there a language gap between generations Yes, there is an absolutely amazing difference between the language of "Generation X" and their parents. There is a system of language which the younger generation understands and uses and the older generation just cannot fathom. I will b...
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Just Words To Some People
392 wordsWhat is a word A word is defined as a speech sound, or series of them, serving to communicate meaning. People have been taught that certain words have certain meanings, some good, some bad and some both. A word is not responsible for the meaning it is intended to have, and therefore, no word is a bad word. The evolution of slang has played a pivotal role is this. An example of a word that has two different meanings, both as different as day and night, is the N. word. the reason for my abbreviati...
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Multiple Words With The Same Meaning
1,198 wordsOne Of The Chief Obstacles To Intelligent Communication Is The Nature Of Language Itself. Discuss Language, it can safely be said, is one of the most important tools, as well as one of the most powerful ones, that human beings use everyday. In, fact it has been said that "language inflicts (wounds) upon the thought of man" (Anshen 341), a feat that no other thing seems able to replicate and which can make language a dangerous tool indeed. If language can be so destructive if misused, even in ign...
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Words Male And Masculinity
1,965 words"Words not only reflect the culture which uses them, they teach and perpetuate the attitudes which created them". When we first hear the words spoken by a person, an impression of that person is created by us. Whether they speak fluently, with a stutter, with some grammatical error, or accent, our view and overall judgement of them as people, are affected. What is a word then? How can this trivial collection of syllables, a mechanism of communication play such an important role on a person's per...
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English Word Erudite
1,011 wordsErudite is a misunderstood word. Several adult, when asked to define erudite were found to be sadly misinformed. One adult answered that erudite was like", Fred Astaire, with a top hat". Another misinformed adult said that an erudite man is one that, "thinks he is better than everyone else". Answers such as these are most obviously wrong. One fifth of the adults surveyed answer with a resounding, "I don't know". While only three out of ten adults were truly erudite in their answers. My search fo...
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Word Rape
461 words1. Frege's solution consists of five parts. First, the principle of extensional ity states that the meaning of an expression is the thing it refers to. Second, the principle of compositionality states that the meaning of an expression is completely determined by the meaning of the parts and the way those parts are ordered. For example, a sentence with ABC is different than sentence CAB because even though the contents are the same, the order is different. Third, both can not be true. Reference d...
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Meaning Of A Word Gloria Naylor
1,291 wordsA Descriptive Analysis Of Nigger: The Meaning OfA Descriptive Analysis Of Nigger: The Meaning Of A Word A Descriptive Analysis of "Nigger: The Meaning of a Word' Descriptive Analysis Assignment #1 ACOM 2263-002 E. Jean Tarrant 26 February 2001 What is the rhetor's purpose? In the essay "Nigger: the meaning of a word' Gloria Naylor discusses the essence of a word and how it can mean different things to different people in a myriad of situations. Depending on race, gender, societal status and age ...
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Words Almost Browne Almost Modernism
345 words"Words Almost Browne Almost Modernism "Words are crossbloods too, almost whole right down to the cold printed page burned on the sides. ' – Almost Browne Post modernism has been described as dealing with the fact that the meanings of words change over time. Modernism deals with thoughts, and words inside the mind, but post-modernism goes further and takes away the meanings of words altogether– the story comes more so from the mind than other styles of literature. Thus is the case in ...
