A. Definition of Back-Formation In etymology‚ back-formation is the process of creating a new lexeme‚ usually by removing actual or supposed affixes. The resulting neologism is called a back-formation‚ a term coined by James Murray in 1889. Back-formation is different from clipping – back-formation may change the part of speech or the word ’s meaning‚ whereas clipping creates shortened words from longer words‚ but does not change the part of speech or the meaning of the word. For example‚ the
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From Time Welcome to Cyberspace: What is it? Where is it? And How Do We Get There? By Philip Elmer-DeWitt It started‚ as the big ideas in technology often do‚ with a science-fiction writer. William Gibson‚ a young expatriate American living in Canada‚ was wandering past the video arcades on Vancouver’s Granville Street in the early 1980’s when something about the way the players were hunched over their glowing screens struck him as odd. “I could see in the physical intensity of their
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Dear student The open book exam forms the first part of the assessment for NURS2097 Mental Health 2 and will equate to 20% of your overall assessment. It is an open book exam so you MUST read and reference every answer. No reference citation will be awarded 0 marks. Please make sure you have good in text APA style referencing as well as an end text reference list of all resources used. Make sure you have a cover sheet with your name and address on this paper. This assessment requires you
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Lexicography. LEXICOLOGY The term «lexicology» is of Greek origin / from «lexis» - «word» and «logos» - «science»/ . Lexicology is the part of linguistics which deals with the vocabulary and characteristic features of words and word-groups. The term «vocabulary» is used to denote the system of words and word-groups that the language possesses. The term «word» denotes the main lexical unit of a language resulting from the association of a group of sounds with
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[pic]GENERAL NOTES ON FUNCTIONAL SТYLES OF LANGUAGE The object of lingo-stylistics is the study of the nature‚ functions and structures of stylistic devices (SD) and expressive means (ЕМ) оn the оnе hand‚ and the study of the functional styles‚ оn the other. А functional style of language is а system of interrelated language means which serves а definite aim in communication. А functional style is thus to bе regarded as the product of а certain concrete task set bу the sender of the message
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excerpt of the sixth book of the series‚ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ which includes examples of translation issues that occur throughout all of the books‚ making them complex and challenging texts. Among them‚ there is humour‚ wordplays‚ neologisms‚ puns‚ double meanings‚ alliteration‚ slang and colloquialisms to name a few. Moreover‚ these are texts usually labelled as children’s literature‚ which not only pose the same problems as in adults’ literature – fluency‚ accuracy‚ register and style
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The third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which a story is presented by a narrator with an overarching point of view‚ seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story‚ including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.[1] It is the most common narrative mode found in sprawling‚ epic stories such as George Eliot’s Middlemarch. The godlike all-knowing perspective of the third-person omniscient allows the narrator to tell the reader things that none of
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wide selection of them are still used 500 years later. Many students who study Shakespeare find it difficult to understand and find the lexis he used to be irrelevant to modern use of English language. However I am aware that a lot of everyday are neologisms created by Shakespeare and though some of Shakespeare’s terms are now marked as archaic‚ many more are still used in modern language. I have chosen to look at Shakespeare’s use of language‚ because as a Theatre Studies and History student‚ I believe
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CONTENT INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER I GENERAL NOTES ON LITERARY LANGUAGE 4 CHAPTER II VARIETIES OF LITERARY LANGUAGE 6 CONCLUSION 11 List of Literature 12 INTRODUCTION A literary language is a register of a language that is used in literary writing. This may also include liturgical writing. The difference between literary and non-literary (vernacular) forms is more marked in some languages than in others. Where there is a strong divergence‚ the language is said to exhibit diglossia. Classical Latin
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IN THE NAME OF THE MOST COMPASSIONATE YAZD AZAD UNIVERSITY(SCINCES AND RESEARCHES BRANCH) THE PROJECT OF ambiguity in translation PROFESSOR : DR jabbari STUDENT: SAEID JEDI In the name of the most compassionate Abstract This paper deals with translation ambiguity and target polysemy problems together. many Words have more than one translation across languages. Such translation ambiguous words are generally translated more slowly and less Accurately than their unambiguous counterparts
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