The Sage Encyclopedia of Human Relationships Personal Idioms by Sandra Metts‚ Illinois State University Sylvia Mikucki‚ University of Illinois “Raining cats and dogs.” “Green with envy.” “Easy as pie.” What these odd expressions share in common is the classification as cultural idioms. They are colloquial expressions that use the English language in creative ways to capture an attitude‚ image‚ or a feeling. A person who came to America from another country would have to study the sky during
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she left her homeland. It is one of the first contacts the audience has with Blanche‚ a key character regarding human illusion as a theme in the play. During this dialogue‚ Blanche uses several euphemisms and sophisticated language to transmit her view and events preceding the scene. Blanche uses the euphemisms to make the new environment she has to live in be perceived as more pleasing and to alleviate the hardships of her recent past. Shortly after the beginning of the conversation‚ Blanche desperately
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Semantic Classification of the English Lexicon. Synonymy and Antonymy Plan 1. Major types of semantic relations of lexical units (syntagmatic‚ paradigmatic). 2. Synonyms. Criteria of synonymy. Classification of synonyms. The dominant synonym. Euphemisms. 3. Antonyms. Classifications of antonyms. 4. Paradigmatic relations of inclusion (hierarchical relations): hyponymy‚ meronymy‚ serial relations. 5. Groups of words based on several types of semantic relations: conceptual (semantic or lexical)
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ROBIN LAKOFF - You Are What You Say literature ALTE DOCUMENTE 05-12-06 | New York‚ Hammerstein - Review WRITING SF - 01 on the writing of speculative ficiton Auditorio Juan Carlos I‚ Spain Review A Change from Hunter Gatherer Distance there is RESCUED MIHAI EMINESCU Amused To Death Review Analysis 1: poem ROBIN LAKOFF Born in 1942‚ Robin Lakoff studied at Radcliffe College and Harvard University‚ where she earned undergraduate and graduate degrees. Currently
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An Analysis of Jane Yolen’s “Fat is Not a Fairytale” In the free verse poem‚ Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale‚ the poet opens with the idea of a fairy tale in which the princess is overweight. She opens each of the three stanzas with‚ “I am thinking of a fairy tale” (1‚ 8‚ 15) in order to portray to the reader that her fairy tale exists only in her thoughts‚ rather than in reality. She continually repeats a series of clever title manipulations such as: “Sleeping Tubby‚ Cinder Elephant‚ and Snow Weight”
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and “just” and “very” and “that‚” but then‚ after we have walked away for a bit we come back and go through things and realize we don’t need it and it’s just cluttering up our work and keeping us from being our best. But I think that “ponderous euphemism” and “official language” is sometimes necessary if is used with a good purpose. For example‚ the other day I walked into a book store looking for a cooking book and I ended reading a couple of pages of the book Body Clutter by Marla Cilley. “Why
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When Napoleon needs to reduce the animal’s food rations he uses a euphemism to make the reality seem better than it is. He says they just have to‚ “Make a readjustment of rations(115).” Napoleon does this is make the animals think everything is going good and to make the animals unaware that they are now going to get less
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Denotative meaning of snake is any of numerous scaly‚ legless‚ sometimes venomous reptiles having a long‚ tapering‚ cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions. The connotative meaning of snake is “evil or danger”. EUPHEMISM AND FANCY WORDS- Euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable
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Using words: verbal communication 3.2 Clarity: using plain English Plain English is a term used to describe clear‚ concise use of the English language that avoids unnecessary jargon or complication. The use of plain English is essential for effective written and spoken communication that takes place in organisations. It is often tempting to elaborate or extend the text‚ in order to provide additional information. Consequently‚ the communicator is always required to focus attention on the most
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ambiguity Feedback Noise/distractions Interpersonal communication Self concept/Self esteem Significant other inflection Self-fulfilling prophecy Reflected appraisal Social comparison static evaluation Influences on perception euphemism Stereotypes equivocation Empathy/sympathy “global village”—Marshall McLuhan High-versus Low-context culture (example?) Individualism vs Collectivism (example?) Power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ achievement vs nurturing Nonverbal
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