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    How does Shakespeare Present Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship as the ’reality’ of love and Claudio and Hero’s as merely the ’appearance’ of it? The idea of love at first sight was popular in Shakespeare’s day. Romeo and Juliet‚ for instance‚ fall in love at first sight. Moreover‚ Claudio’s methods of courting Hero through other people would have been an accepted tactic among Elizabethan nobility. Shakespeare’s drama mocks love and human courtliness between two couples who take very different

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    Visual Communication – Individual Assignment Student: Loredana Patricia Pădureanu Analysis of Oliviero Toscani’s “Tongues” Photo for United Colors of Benetton The picture chosen for analysis is one taken by Oliviero Toscani for a United Colors of Benetton campaign. The picture depicts three children – one African-American‚ one Caucasian and one Asian – all sticking their tongues out‚ from where the name of the advertisement – “Tongues”. This campaign for Benetton was launched in February 1991

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    Analytical Essay ‘Campaign For Real Beauty’ Print Advertisement the Dove campaign for Real Beauty is not entirely innocent. While the intended message of the campaign relates to Dove’s mission statement‚ the driving force behind the concept is motivated by capitalist objectives. Through a semiotic analysis‚ both the visual and linguistic texts are deconstructed in order to reveal how values‚ attitudes and beliefs are supported while others are concealed. The texts‚ which are framed in feminist

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    Messages‚ Signs‚ and Meanings A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication 3rdedition Volume 1 in the series Studies in Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology Series Editor: Marcel Danesi‚ University of Toronto Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. Toronto Disclaimer: Some images and text in the printed version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. Messages‚ Signs‚ and Meanings: A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication Theory‚ 3rdEdition by Marcel Danesi

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    Thirteen Ways of Self-Questioning The poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is written by Wallace Stevens. It contains thirteen sections; each section provides us a picture that is centered by the element of blackbird. Blackbird in the poem signifies people’s consciousness. So this poem wants to tell us that every person has a perspective to look at the world. It questions our process of thought to understand the world‚ and reminds us realize the problem of it. In “The Language of Paradox”

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    “Little Red-Cap.” An interpretation 8.10.2013 Little Red Cap is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy in 1999. The action in the poem revolves around a young girl who is also the speaker in this poem‚ she tells her story through a first person narrative perspective. The personas are two characters a young girl and a wolf. Her story is about the transaction from being a little girl to being a woman‚ with lust and curiosity towards men‚ but the poem takes a sudden turn towards the end when she kills

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    selfish nature. Line 16 compares the Miller to Pilate‚ who according to the footnote‚ is referring to a “harsh voice associated with the character of Pontius Pilate in the mystery plays.” Here‚ the word Pilate could take on two meanings. The denotation of the word suggests the Miller having a harsh voice and implies the mystery about the

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    concept conjured up or suggested by the signifier. For example‚ seeing an image of a red rose (the signifier) might make one think of St Valentine’s Day (the signified). The most basic form of sign is “denotation”‚ the literal meaning of a sign‚ e.g.: the word “rose” signifies an actual flower. “Connotation” then is when a signifier is used for a second or third signified. Signs can link or “connote” something by association. A second signified for the red rose might be romance. If you changed the colour

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    References: Daniel Chandler‚ 1998 Semiotics for Beginners: a more complex semiotic explanation of denotation/connotation and paradigmatic/syntagmatic analysis. Deveci‚ Tanju‚ 2003 teaches English for Academic Purposes at Sabanci University in Istanbul Hossein Shokouhi‚ 2010 Collocational Knowledge versus General Linguistic Knowledge among Iranian EFL Learners

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    ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY‚ ISLAMABAD (Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics) WARNING 1. PLAGIARISM OR HIRING OF GHOST WRITER(S) FOR SOLVING THE ASSIGNMENT(S) WILL DEBAR THE STUDENT FROM AWARD OF DEGREE/CERTIFICATE‚ IF FOUND AT ANY STAGE. 2. SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM OTHER(S) AS ONE’S OWN WILL BE PENALIZED AS DEFINED IN “AIOU PLAGIARISM POLICY”. Course: Compulsory English-II Academic Reading & Writing Course Code: 1424 Semester: Autumn‚ 2013 Level:

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