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Search term: language-manipulation
"In order to find out how things really are one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world." Evaluate and discuss this claim.
... world is language. According to Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, one's language determines one's thoughts. Thus, people, who speak languages, ... more objective in evaluation. Thus, recognizing filters that manipulate one's empirical perceptions, one can adjust one' ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Analysis Of Internet Jargon
... and elite computer manipulators called "Hackers," has spread to all users of computer networks. The language is currently ... -lingual yet English dominated Internet are borrowed from language to language. The words "Internet" and "cyberspace" are used around ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
People's positions in the world are shaped by discourse - With reference to face, power and solidarity.
... (1989) "Power Pronouns and the Language of Intercultural Understanding." In S.F.K. Ting-Toomey (ed) Language, Communication and Culture. Newbury ... speaker may choose to switch between the two to manipulate a given situation. Also, when looking at the use ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Freud, Burkert, More and Atheism on the Origins and Persistence of Religious Faith
... in a way not possible before the development of language. Language and socialization then led to the formation of culture ... civilizations throughout history have been subject to control and manipulation by religious leaders who consolidate power over their ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
In Search of Perfection
... less serious disorders: ...colorblindness... obesity, left-handedness," and manipulate the genetic code so that its characteristics would ... to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, genetic engineering is "a scientific alternation of the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
What view of society and of the church emerges from Lazarillo de Tormes?
... s words reflect the assimilation of a debased language system or the conscious manipulation of that system . It causes you to ask ... people can carry on in this crooked society by manipulating appearances and disregarding the harm that they exact upon ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Culture and Communication
... N. (1989). Information withholding as a manipulative and collusive strategy in Nukulaelae gossip. Language in Society, 18, 315-341. Biber, ... competence in the foreign language classroom. In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Foreign language acquisition research and the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
Biological Sex and Gender
... J., Double, K., Halliday, G., Kril, J., & McRitchie, D. (1997). Language-associated cortical regions are proportionally larger in the female brain. ... cells to the actions of the autosomal genes that manipulate occurrences on the X and Y-chromosomes is also ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
EASTERN AND WESTERN THINKING, GIVING IT A THOUGHT OR TWO
... is likely in large part due to the languages themselves. "East Asian languages are highly contextual," leaving the listener to ... that lie far outside of their individual ability to manipulate. These fundamentally different views regarding a person's power ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
"Why does Searle think that the Chinese Room thought experiment shows that the Turing Test is invalid, strong AI false? Can a computer or robot possess understanding and intelligence?"
... " about what he or she doing "produces the answers by manipulating non-interpreted formal symbols." Like a computer, the man simply ... understand Chinese, and a manual written in the human's language. Searle argues that the manual can instruct the human how ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy