Essays on Semantic

René Magritte's oil on canvas painting The Son of Man (1964) has become a very popular visual text in a short period of time. The symbolism and unusual and enigmatic create a holistic picture of the semantic code that every viewer tries to interpret. Although the canvas contains a fairly small number of different details, as contrasted with Bosch or Rubens' paintings, yet there is a deep consisting of several layers meaning in it. The painting contains a number of visual symbols, which have already become some kind of the archetypes of modern society. The Son of Man (see ...

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Computers scientist have been grappling with the challenge of developing cognitive systems. Some of the challenges that have made the creation of such systems include natural language processing and machine learning. However, IBM has been able to produce a system known as Watson that has demonstrated human-like intelligence. The system was able to deal with the challenge of natural language processing by using a parsing process to derive the context of questions. This made IBM Watson have human-like understanding of natural language. The system is also built on active technologies that facilitate adaptation training through data and user changes. ...

Introduction

Memory is defined as the multitude of abilities and capacities which human beings depend on to perform various life functions. This implies that the concept of memory is important in people regarding the way they remember life experiences hence every challenge that presents itself in understanding the functioning of the brain needs to be researched, and credible findings generated to improve the performance of human memory. Many people still wonder about the operation of the human brain and memory regarding the various functions performed and the way it influences forgetfulness among individuals. While other researchers have viewed the human ...

Analysis of the Language of New Social Media

Introduction Recent technological advancements in computers, phones, and internet based communications have become an integral part of people’s lives. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn have attracted million of English-speaking users who communicate and connect via the sites on a regular basis. The use of the internet communication technologies has undoubtedly shaped the way people communicate. Users share their thoughts and photos, organize their social lives, or at the very least have their lives significantly influenced through some form of internet-based interaction. This has had a huge effect not only on the physical interaction but ...

History of Fashion

Dick Hebdige’s article “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” poses the matter of the role of subculture in a conventional society. The article indicates that media is presenting subcultures such as punk, as threatening to the traditional societal conventions, to the generally accepted sense of morality, lifestyle or fashion. The arguments that the author uses vary from references to the members of subculture as different individuals that create semantic disorders to conversion and the erasure of the “other” to social norms. The article depicts how media techniques are used to highlight a subculture as negative to social standards. Hebdige suggests ...

Communication

Interpersonal Communication Interpersonal communication is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages: it is face-to-face communication (Interpersonal Communication Skills).The following sequence shows flow of information in interpersonal communication.

In other words it can be said that this is the most direct type of communication. Examples of interpersonal communication are communication with peers, friends, and family members face to face. In such type of communication both the sender and receivers perceive the gestures of each other and the exchange medium (communication channel) for the information is the same. An added advantage ...

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Assignment 1-2: Do you agree that the Bible is a divine-human book? Why or why not? What is textual criticism? How is it possible to have a high view of the authority of Scripture and a positive view of textual criticism at the same time?

What is translation?

Why is translation not a simple exercise? Describe the two main approaches to translation discussed in this chapter. Which approach do you feel most comfortable with? Why? Assignment 2-1: Describe the five steps of the Interpretive Journey. Answer each step with as much information as possible. In other words, do not just give a ...

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Profound education is the basis for the successful career development and personal growth of any individual. Many scholars are trying to give an answer to the question of what makes the learning process more effective. Different aspects of learning theory provide answers to some of these questions. Theories of learning can be grouped into following three categories: behaviorist learning theories, cognitivist learning theories, and constructivist learning theories. Many researchers pay much attention to the process of scaffolding that is actively discussed as a significant element of learning process. The researcher Albert Bandura has devoted a number of his scientific ...

Likert Scale

The preceding Likert scale reflects a total of 7 questions that would provide a significant and substantive understanding of how consumers feel about quinoa. According to both Gebreyes (2014) and Ancient Harvest (2016), quinoa is becoming extremely popular among consumers because it offers a heavy amount of protein content and is a perfect substitute for breakfast cereals and side dishes such as rice and pasta that would traditionally be a part of lunch and dinner (2014; 2016). The grocery stores would want to know the viability of quinoa products selling at its store and the 7 questions would provide ...

Psychology

Shot-term memory has been the subject of several studies on cognitive functioning of the brain. Several approach and theoretical frameworks were employed in the process in order to determine the implications of different factors to STM. In this discussion, the context of STM was examined by reviewing relevant literatures encompassing the varying approach to STM study. STM problems were associated to childhood ADHD, while the other research focuses on the association of visual recall and order recall. These studies involves identifying the relationship between cognitive functioning and STM, which are critical areas in understanding human brain functioning and in ...

Factors Contributing To Language Change

Introduction Besters-Dilger, Dermarkar, Pfänder and Rabus (2014) define language change as the variation in the language’s morphological, phonetic, syntactic, semantic among other features over time. Language is always changing across social groups, space and time. In Nigeria exploration contributed to the development of English language in the country. Explorers associated with Nigerians making the citizens to learn and adapt to the explorers language for effective communication. From one generation to another, new pronunciation emerges, new and additional words evolve or invented by the population, morphology decays or develops over time. Hickey (2003) records that, although the rate ...

Semantic knowledge includes general knowledge of things such as basic facts, knowledge of people, and meanings. Semantics are almost always taken for granted because it is an innate element of human beings. Meaning-making and meaning-sharing is a natural part of our day to day discourse. The meanings that people attach to words, objects, and even people are highly subjective(Hornsby, Stanley, 2005). The meanings that we have for the things around us speaks highly of our experiences, personality, and beliefs. The practicality of semantics is also what makes it a difficult topic to study. It is difficult to study ...

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The study describes phonological pluralization of nouns and adjectives in Nahuatl. It is based on selected groups of substantives and adjectives taken from Nahuatl and is focused on comparing their singular and plural forms in the phonological context. The groups are presented by the following semantic domains: Animals, Natural force (weather), Number, Perception visual colors, Physical artifact (dress and tool weapon), Physical celestial body, Physical condition form change, Physical somatic, Physical somatic body part, Physical spatial, Physical substance, Plant and Plant part, Quality, Social clan and Social kin, Time phase. The purpose of the paper consists in revealing phonological ...

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Introduction of Mental Lexicon

Mental lexicon denotes a collection of words in the mind of any individual. According to linguists, it is a part of one’s grammar that encloses all the information linked to the words and morphemes including morphological, phonological, semantic, and syntactic (Dell et al., 1997). Psycholinguists have observed that words are stocked up with its phonological as well as orthographic shapes. Language impaired individuals have been a good source of information about lexicon through analyzing their speech errors including malapropisms, paraphasias, and lexical decision tasks (Sripada, 2008). ...