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Double-decker Definitions: the Role of Frames in Meaning Explanations

... beliefs accept reincarnation, the word would not be defined as a belief. CED seems to offer a separate definition just for believers: reincarnation n. 1. the belief that ...

(40 pages) 10 0 0.0 20/Apr/2011

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

ENGLISH FIRST

... know about that aren't lucky enough to have ... DNA to change their fate?" she asks. Indeed, there is a growing belief that DNA ... know about that aren't lucky enough to have ... DNA to change their fate?" she asks. Indeed, there is a growing belief that DNA ...

(25 pages) 187 0 3.8 26/Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Emotion Talk in Ilokano

... belief that the two qualities that make man who he is, panunot ken rikna (mind and emotions) are situated in the head and heart respectively. The belief ... —it is that which distinguishes virtue from that which is not.” That is why a person that is nanakem ( ...

(23 pages) 4132 0 0.0 01/Jul/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Semantic Insanity

... witchcraft or Satanism. In many cases, there was the belief that someone who was insane had done something wrong, as ... ." Within the context of extreme sports: "That trick was insane" to mean "that trick was executed very well". Another example would ...

(6 pages) 48 0 3.8 02/Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Ebonics

... that does not serve the original purpose of Ebonics. Most of the arguments against Ebonics boil down to the main belief that ... . If I have revealed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the ignorance that is causing the lamentable situations haunting ...

(14 pages) 390 0 4.5 01/Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Politics and the English Language

... half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape forour own purposes. Now, it is clear that the ... I will come back to this presently, and I hope that by that time the meaningof what I have said here will have ...

(20 pages) 79 0 5.0 14/Oct/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Independent thinking.

... distractions along the path of leadership that prevent teens from following their beliefs. Such as the fact that the majority of teens ... beliefs. Such as the fact that the majority of teens are not interested in what could be, but what is. We are afraid that ...

(2 pages) 58 0 3.0 15/Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

The Emergence of Poetic Meaning

... social belief system etc. It is the complex interwoven system of those factors within which the person gathers its existential momentum. In that ... So in brief, what I really intend to say is that individual thought has no more existence beyond the arena of ...

(3 pages) 39 0 4.2 24/May/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

An Analysis of a quotation

... for something through prayer. This comparison is based on three beliefs. The first part of the quotation, "The mills of the gods ... . God always answers prayers. They may be answered in ways that we could never imagine, but they will always be answered. ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.3 01/Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Politeness and Culture

... beliefs underlying them. The famous metaphor of the "culture iceberg" (Hall & Hall, 1990) indicates that many aspects of culture, such as certain beliefs ... and artifacts..., but also studying people's values, beliefs, and attitudes and how they influence or ...

(13 pages) 201 1 4.8 17/Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

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