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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen