The modern sense of "literary theory" dates only to approximately the 1950s, when the structuralist linguists Ferdinand de Saussure began strongly to influence English language criticism. ... In 1925 Boris Toma Shevski formulated the fullest formalist answer to the question of how to distinguish the language of fiction from ordinary language. ... He focused on the question of how language actually works in order to formulate general insights that would be valid for all language use and for all languages. ... The reason is that we know through language and language doesn't refl...

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Would the English language be as effective without these words? ... To summarize: Does profanity serve a useful purpose in the English language? ... Chapter 3- How Profanity Offends Why does this language cause such strong reactions? ... Language in its primitive function is to be regarded as a mode of action rather than as a countersign of thought." ... She has studied language and explored the "socio-linguistics" culture in which profanity and vulgarisms have flourished. ...

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By far the most dominate theoretical approach to the solution of the PI problem in a linguistic context has been that of associative learning theory. ... This variation in the articulatory and resulting acoustic manifestation of spoken language has been a central problem in phonetic and phonological theory for most of this century. ... The theoretical idea of the phoneme and the phoneme inventory as part of the linguistic knowledge of the native speaker of human language fit well with associative theory as the prime solution to the problem of perceptual invariance as it applied to the pe...

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For example, the Kurds have language. ... They speak a language called Kurdish. ... There is another theory about how complex your society is, the more complex your society is the more words you will have because you have more things that are exotic that you need to describe with words you do not have so that creates new words. The last theory is that the more your society values something the more semantic domain your society will have. ... The theory that language affects how you see the outside world because you use language to describe the world around you with it. ...

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In some schools - for example, Tower Hamlets - most bilingual children will speak the same language as a mother tongue, whereas in others 40 different languages or more may be spoken. ... It does not necessarily imply full fluency in both or all languages". ... It draws attention to the fact that children may have two or three languages in addition to English; also that English should be considered as an additional language, rather than one that replaces the children's other languages. ... Task 1: Auditing your knowledge of children learning English as an additional language. ......

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Through the years, and probably through the centuries, teachers have struggled to make math meaningful by providing students with problems and examples demonstrating its applications in everyday life. As this classic joke shows, some strategies are more successful -- and more meaningful -- than othe...

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Technical language is necessary to convey meanings of ideas, concepts, objects, theories and phenomena of the subject that is being studied. ... By definition, the things that are being referred to using abstract language would not have a substitute in the concrete language. ... In contrast to abstract language, technical language may have its non-technical counterpart, albeit a loosely similar one. ... Technical language is just specialized language used for a specific subject matter. ... The two excerpts show the striking difference between a sentence that uses abstract and technical la...

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Northern Caribbean University College of Education and Religion Department of Education MTED 201: Primary Mathematics Methods Factors that influence how children learn Psychological influences Professional influences Technological influences Language influences Societal influences Research influences Psychological influences: The essence of this theory is students construct their own understanding of math ideas (by interacting with physical models of these ideas). ... Language influences: Language is a part of the whole thinking process. ... Cognitivist/constructivi...

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It is the basis of knowing well the language points, acquiring knowledge and improving the ability to use English. ... Thus the students can get their reading skills improved during the course and they are able to cope with the language in complicated situations. ... But it also does relate with our traditional method of teaching reading. 2.1.1.The Reading Speed The traditional way of teaching reading is based on the classical reading theory. In classical reading teaching theory, comprehension depends on the vocabulary. With this theory, the traditional reading teaching mainly adopts the me...

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This paper focuses on Freud's revolutionary theory of psychoanalysis, its origins, and its impact on psychology today. The principles of this theory are fully explained. ... His theories were highly controversial and remain so to this day. ... As cited in Freud, 1949, the principle tenets on which the psychoanalytic theory are based are the three forces of the psychical apparatus: the id, the ego, and the superego. ...

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree {Davidoff, 199}. ... In what ways do the authors, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, compare andor contrast in the fulfillment of the critical literary theories, psychological and historical? In order to answer this question you have to know the definition of psychological and historical theories. ... The definition of Historical Critical Theory is a work of literature has done something valuable if it sheds light upon an historic era, for example: Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur. ... When something is said t...

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Another theory concerning the age of the author is found in the quality of the poetry printed after 1604. ... It is also necessary that the author be fluent, or at least familiar, in many languages, such as French, Italian, Latin and Greek. ... The point also must be made that the author shouldn't have only been knowledgeable in foreign languages, but also have access to the literature from which so much has been derived. ... Because of this speculation, some would offer the theory that Oxford may have made Shakspere manager and factotum of the Chamberlain's men theatre. Another th...

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This suggested to him that there must be something fatally incorrect about the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic universal theory. ... Suddenly, scientists were faced with mathematical calculations, as opposed to simply fervent speculation, in support of the heliocentric theory of the universe. ... Another factor is that the Catholic Church continued to allow him to teach Copernicanism as a mathematical theory, their opposition was solely to Galileo expressing his deduction that the Copernican theory was in fact true (Catholic Encyclopedia). ...

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Ghost stories are big business in today's modern English language culture. ... Hamlet on the other end, continues to influence and maintain English Language Culture's position on the relationships made with the dead. ... To understand the impact of Hamlet on how English language culture views the dead, we must first understand how other cultures think of the deceased. ... Notice, that many holidays related to death in the English language speaking world, is a time to mourn. ... This shows the link that connects Hamlet, and the English language authors of ghost stories today. ...

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Meanwhile, introduce something about "Oedipus complex", in psychoanalytic theory and literature. ... The Oedipus complex in Psychoanalytic theory And Sons and Lovers There are many writers who feel that they wrote one great work among their series of masterpieces. ... Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex; Lawrence himself claimed not to have read Freud2, and dismissed the theory of complexes as "vicious half-statements of the Freudians"3, but his wife Frieda was greatly interested in psychoanalysis and claimed that they ...

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Her belief was that younger children need a different use of language to that of older children. Therefore, the adult must be aware that a young child requires a different approach to language. ... This curriculum is based upon a range of psychological, educational, and sociological theories. The underpinning psychological theory owes much to Piaget: that children learn best from active involvement with their environment. ... The key areas are: Active learning (E.Wood, J.Attfield 1996) Language Representation ...

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Lucretius likes to use his theory of the existence of atom, void, and swerve to explain how the world works while I want to show how the world works with the help of songs. ... Music is a language of human emotions and has no set vocabulary because each individual can interpret what sounds they are hearing as those of happy or melancholy essence. ... With the rhythm of music naturally occurring in our surroundings as well as being the building block of language and the atom being the building block of matter, both are seen as essential key elements to the composition of the world around us. .....

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While observing Dylan in his daily routine and speaking with his parents about his growing developments, his physical, cognitive, language and social/emotional developments have been noted. ... Dylan is in the preoperational stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. ... Language Development Dylan's language development is behind for his age. ... I think that Dylan has not been exposed to much language in his life at ...

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While observing Dylan in his daily routine and speaking with his parents about his growing developments, his physical, cognitive, language and social/emotional developments have been noted. ... Dylan is in the preoperational stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development. ... Language Development Dylan's language development is behind for his age. ...

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Claude Shannon pioneered a theory of information, explaining how information was created and how it might be encoded and compressed. ... In the nearly 50 years after his death, as the name of Turing has been invoked repeatedly by artificial intelligence researchers, as he became a sort of patron saint of computing genius, his theory was never fully tested. Like teaching an elephant how to swim, Turing's hypothesized child machine was rejected as impractical, impossible, and ill considered by those he must have most wished to reach - the scientists who sought to give machines real skill wi...

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Language is one of the most important components of self-identification; without knowing ones native language, one would lack a sense of belonging and would not be able to identify his or her original belief system. ... Without literature humankind would be unable to correlate origins of language, ethnicity, and social and cultural stability with themselves. The language in which the literature is written will indicate the origin of their belief system and who wrote it. Ireland for instance had two languages: Latin and Irish. ... The Book of Invasions was merely propaganda and also a fictitiou...

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Investor Psychology Financiers on the Couch The Economic Man Classic economic theory suggests that participants in an economy act in a modest manner. ... Prospect Theory Of course, this is a rather extreme example of how emotions are able to dominate over common sense. ... One of them is the so-called "Prospect Theory" developed by Kahnemann and Tversky. ... Regret Theory Everyone seeks to avoid humiliation in their lives. ... He preserves thus the ambiguous character of the human language. ...

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Romeo and Juliet! Why was fate to blame? Romeo and Juliet is a well-known Shakespeare in which fate plays an important part. Tragedy is defined as something with a serious theme that usually ends in death or defeat. Fate is a power, which is thought to make things happen and is out of anyone's c...

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After introducing the topic, I will discuss in turn what I take to be the three most important claims made by the ve rsion of the theory I wish to defend. Then I will consider one typical aspect of the traditional theory that has important philosophical as well as theological ramifications, vis., the notion that our resurrection bodies will consist of the same matter as do our present earthly bodies. ... Perhaps human beings are essentially material objects; perhaps some version of identity theory or functionalism is true. ... I will call this theory "temporary disembodiment."... (How one can ...

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One theory is during the Pleistocene ice age during "a two million year period, the floor of the Bering Strait stood high and dry, linking Siberia and Alaska." ... One theory is during the Pleistocene ice age during "a two million year period, the floor of the Bering Strait stood high and dry, linking Siberia and Alaska." ...

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