Essays Tagged: "Word game"
Metalanguage in a world of nonsense based on the book Alice in the Wonderland
Carroll builds the text on associative conformity and polysemies. Many retorts are constructed on a word game. In Carroll's book, practically each word has a sense of duality. His understanding of met ... s the distinction between the levels of metalanguage in relation to meaning in language and logic.A word in itself serves as a game of nonsense in Carroll's Wonderland. The numerous puns on words buil ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Vocab
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Story Of Two
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Double-decker Definitions: the Role of Frames in Meaning Explanations
background information (or "frames") should be treated as essential components or accompaniments of word definitions.1 For ordinary print dictionaries, the provision of such information would amount t ... ecessary background information. Since a single background frame, entered only once, can serve many word senses, its description could be made accessible from all of the relevant entries; it does not ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics