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    adjective “small” – and helpless at the hands of Larry‚ demonstrated with the word “trapped”. This also represents the juxtaposition of power as Larry is now seen as the ‘predator’ in relation to Nicole‚ linking to the theme of authority. The semantic field of pathos creates sympathy for Nicole here as she is strongly represented as the ‘victim’ in the situation. The listing technique used with “Her hair dishevelled‚ mouth flung open‚ lips swollen” creates impact as the powerful choice of language

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    Targets: To reread essay to ensure fluency Focus on use of apostrophes Explore the presentation and significance of Winterson’s relationship with literature‚ focusing on the three chosen extracts Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded‚ brutally honest memoir by Jeanette Winterson about her search for belonging—for love‚ a home‚ and a mother. A prominent theme within her story is her intimate relationship with literature and how it shapes her identity. Her relationship with literature

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    other hand‚ Carol Ann Duffy structures her poem "Quickdraw" in contrast to Armitage by using only four‚ four- lined stanzas. I believe that Duffy uses this technique to write out her poem because she wants to represent the different stages of her semantic field‚ a western shoot- out. This is obvious in the first stanza‚ where it is suggesting the preparation of the shoot- out by saying‚ “I wear the two‚ the mobile and landline phones.” Duffy successfully uses the second stanza to signify the second

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    negation. Another aspect of local negation is introduced to prove that this is another example in favour of the hypothesis that negation is yet to be studied. By studying such phenomena the paper also suggests that grammar cannot be separated from semantics in the study of language. The findings of the study show that the analysis of the phrase far from and the effect of only after a clause negator resulted in (1) Asst. Lecturer‚ English Language Department‚ College of Arts‚ Mosul Accepted: 18-08-2008

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    with prevailing morphological word-structures and with processes of making new words. Semantics is the study of meaning. Modern approaches to this problem are characterised by two different levels of study: syntagmatic and paradigmatic. On the syntagmatic level‚ the semantic structure of the word is analysed in its linear relationships with neighbouring words in con-nected speech. In other words‚ the semantic characteristics of the word are observed‚ described and studied on the basis of its typical

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    language. All areas of language can be examined scientifically such as grammar‚ sounds‚ meaning‚ just to name a few. For the purposes of this essay‚ I shall limit the fundamentals of linguistics to the following: phonetics and phonology‚ pragmatics‚ semantics‚ discourse morphology and syntax. Phonetics and Phonology Pronunciation can be studied from two perspectives: the phonetic and the phonological. Phonetics “is the study of the way humans make‚ transmit‚ and receive speech sounds” (Crystal 1995:236)

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    An Introduction To Pragmatics Bruce Fraser Boston University December 1987 PREFACE Linguistic pragmatics is the study of linguistic communication . The writer here presented a general picture of what researchers in the field see to be the " received dicta " . He has borrowed liberally from any and all available sources ‚ usually without attribution . CHAPTER 1 THE DOMAIN OF PRAGMATICS 1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS : Syntactic studying the ways in which signs are combined and the signification

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    treatment of this method--Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan’s Cohesion in English[1976]--cohesion is a semantic concept that ’occurs when the interpretation of some element in thediscourse is dependent on that of another’ (4). . . . At its simplest‚ cohesion refers to the ways in which texts are ’stuck together’--the ways in which sentences are linked or connected by various linguistic and semantic ties." (Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition

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    (2002). Rhetorical Properties of Arabic Research Article Introductions. Retrieved on 22‚ Nov‚ 2011at http: www.sciencedirect.comsciencearticlepis. Feathers‚ K. (1981). Text Unity: A semantic perspective on mapping cohesion and coherence Grice‚ P. (1975). Logic and Convention. In Cole‚ P and Morgan‚ J (eds). Syntax and Semantics III: speech act Gula‚ Robert. (1980). A Reference Handbook for Writers. Massachusetts: Wintrop Publishers Inc. Hacker‚ Diana. (1999). The Bedford Handbook for Writers. Boston: Bedford

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    2014190046 – DaYe Shin Professor Colin Caret World Philosophy (UIC1901-03) October 31th 2014 Vagueness: The Sorites Paradox and Supervaluationism Vagueness is common and pervasive in our everyday use of language. Being bald‚ tall or red are all vague concepts which are used without being detected as such. Vagueness is caused by “borderline cases”‚ cases in which “we do not know what to say‚ despite having all the information that would normally fix the correct verdict” (Paradoxes‚ p.41). To illustrate

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