Essays Tagged: "Utterance"

Chaucer and the "House of Fame". Discusses the cultural nature of fame and its textual expression with reference to oral heroic poetry and the modern construction of the canon of English literary trad

Chaucer is well aware of rapidly changingcommunicative practises and contrasts the preservation of utterance with the longevityof literary texts. He achieves this by discussing the nature of 'Fame' a ...

(8 pages) 64 0 1.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This essay is about the short story by Edgar Alan Poe.

an solve. "You, who know so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat..." Montresor then begins to think guilty thoughts and reviews deeper into the ...

(3 pages) 70 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Comparison of Marvell's To his coy mistres and Donne's Anniverasry

ncourages his mistress to be not too shy and be more glowing. It is something like love or ticklish utterance to her, a small appeal for her. But this would be very unsophisticated for Andrew Marvell, ...

(4 pages) 59 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

If you could go back in time and ask the Framers just one question to clarify meaning, what would it be, and why is the answer important today?"

ting the free exercise thereof ..." My question would be: Did you intend to prohibit praying or the utterance of God's name in our public schools or public gatherings?I think this clarification is imp ...

(1 pages) 24 2 1.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Notes on "THE VOICE" by "THOMAS HARDY". A poem which is used in AS literature: poetry section

personal significance and the "Poems of 1912-13", from which this work came, are his most personal utterance and most typical poems - often touching, as they do, on the inexorability of time and the ...

(4 pages) 49 0 4.3 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Analysing two speaking activities.

iscourse analysis is defined as (a) concerned with language use beyond the boundaries of a sentence/utterance, (b) concerned with the interrelationships between language and society and (c) as concern ... ly a pragmatic theme. The focus is on how speakers establish various types of linkage between their utterances and elements in a situational context (e.g. objects, persons, etc.). C1 contains two diff ...

(7 pages) 98 0 4.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Plato Orates the Lover as Blessed

ivine truth, sought only by the wise and disbelieved by the ignorant.Plato, through Socrates in his utterance to Phaedrus, addressed the irrational actions of the lover, who was kept wholly ignorant i ... the different types of madness which overwhelms those, who are prophets or through holy prayers and utterances, the third kind being possessed by Muses, shows that this divine madness envelopes the so ...

(5 pages) 23 0 3.7 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

The Interpretation of Indirect Utterances

The Interpretation of Indirect Utterances* Types of Indirectness- This study asserts the importance of communicative competence in ... e in learning. It discusses one aspect of communicative competence : the interpretation of indirect utterances .- Two types of indirectness are addressed here in this study :1- Pragmatic Ambivalence . ... Ambivalence- Pragmatic Ambivalence, as Thomas ( 1995 ) argues, occurs when the intended force of an utterance, such as " Is that the phone ? ", is quite indeterminate. This is by virtue of the fact th ...

(3 pages) 20 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Citizen Kane

a thousand fragments. The film's plot is structured around a search for the meaning of Kane's final utterance. Reporter Jerry Thompson is given the assignment to uncover the mystery of "Rosebud"; howe ...

(5 pages) 2392 0 5.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Some Basic Consideration Of Discourse Reference

context by a speaker/writer, he is more concerned with the relationship between the speaker and the utterance, on the particular occasion of use, than with the potential relationship of one sentence t ...

(7 pages) 974 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Basically Practice Of Sociolinguistic

It's informal because of 4 elements 1. No increased structuring of formal event.1.1 Using the utterance such as "Look" and "Well".1.2 No completed sentence such as "Monday night?" ...

(2 pages) 1081 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Dramatic Monologue: This essay spells out the salient features of the dramatic monologue, with examples.

ect, as it gives the reader the feeling that the something has happened before which has led to the utterance of the dramatic monologue. For instance, in the poem, “The Forsaken Merman” by M ...

(3 pages) 27 0 4.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Critique of joseph conrads hea

how effective it is in achieving Conrad's goal. This "deconstruction" of Kurtz culminates with his utterance of the phrase, "The horror! The horror!", as he lay dying. Yet, first we must explain what ...

(5 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Pulp Fiction

PULP FICTION Shit The word ¡§shit¡¨ is used as a single utterance which is used to express one¡¦s feeling towards somethings. For example, when ... s ¡§asshole¡¨ and ¡§motherfucker¡¨ are used as one single utterance to curse people. We find that when a character is really angry at other characters, he wil ...

(5 pages) 10 0 2.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

language and literature Because all literature is created with words,

ructuralism; syntax; and versification.Some linguists regard literary artifacts simply as preserved utterances, distinguished by the very fact of their preservation. The great mass of casual speech va ... printed passage entitled "Sonnet XI" cannot, by the rules of Western culture, be taken as a casual utterance. Artistic displacement a fire hydrant removed to a museum, for example assigns special sta ...

(4 pages) 1058 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

BIRDS' LANGUAGE

conditions, but isolating them from any verbal stimulus, from any contact with the sphere of human utterance. So, the two children were being perfectly taken care of, but no-one spoke to them and no- ...

(3 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Critically assess the view put forward by linguist Noam Chomsky that children are "predisposed", to learn language with ease because their brains contain "language acquisition devices".

e known as morphemes. With these basic units, language development will go onto the using of words, utterance, speech act and so on. What rule or theory is governing this development?The linguist, Noa ...

(6 pages) 54 0 3.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Discuss the importance of context in understanding language play.

ons. Rilley (2002, p.18) states that context can be defined firstly as referring to the parts of an utterance surrounding a linguistic unit that may affect both its meaning and grammatical contributio ... ords, it can invoke context and provide context for other talk. Dialogic can be altered by words or utterances, which have gone before. Also, words used can be connected and associated with their prev ...

(6 pages) 39 0 0.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Discourse Analysis of Jane Austin's Pride And Prejudice

feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?" - In this "utterance" Mr. Darcy does not include himself in the discourse and refers to Elizabeth as "you", thi ... has encountered in her past. To enhance her point with dramatic effect she slows the tempo of her "utterances"; "I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at ...

(6 pages) 13 0 3.0 May/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen