Semantic Web

Signs can take many forms and how we interpret them can vary as well. The 2002 film, John Q, is a complex story with many signs that convey a warning message. The film gives a warning and helps the audience come to an understanding of how fundamentally flawed our medical system is. We will use semiotics and dialogism to understand how the film John Q signifies the importance of a comprehensive medical system in America. Prior to looking at the plot of the film, we must first define semiotics and

Semantic Illusion and its Role in Sentence Processing The idea of semantic illusions is where people tend to not recognize an inaccuracy or inconsistency in a text.. This tendency is now known as the Moses Illusion. Erickson and Mattson (1981) presented subjects with questions such as ‘ How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?’. People answered ‘two’ even when they knew that Noah was the one who took the animals. Even when told that there may be distortions, people still overlooked

Discourse has many definitions and can be interpreted several ways. The one that got to me the most was when Gee says, “To enact identities people people have to talk the right talk, walk the right walk, behave as if they believe and value the right things, and wear the right things at the right time and right place. Identity is a performance” (Gee 102) This explanation brought discourse to life. It shows how people constantly must put in the effort to maintain a certain identity, but once they have

The author’s main argument in “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics” is that the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should be social practices (Discourse) rather than language. Many people tend to think of language as ‘perfect grammar’, but language is about what you say, how you say it, what you are, and do when you say something. Gee elaborates on this claim by describing two responses of women in an interview that each show different dialect. Overall, the saying-doing-being-valuing-believing

Poets use imagery and words with different connotations and denotations. Connotations are the sets of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning. An example of a connotation is "The huts of Caroline". It's not the figurative meaning but its actual meaning the homes in Carolina. The people in the Carolinas will be freed from their slavery. Denotations are the dictionary definition of a word, independent of other associations a word may have. An example of a denotation is "With

A discourse community is defined as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. John Swales is a professor in linguistics and received his Ph. D. from Cambridge University. John Swales’s Six Criteria is a perfect setup for a discourse community, and some of the steps are setting a common goal, mechanisms of intercommunication; provide information and feedback, genres, lexis, and threshold level of members. James Lee is a professor who taught linguistics at Stanford

1. What does Basbaum mean when he says, “pain is not a stimulus”? Basbaum describes pain as an experience associated with perception. Similarly, he also describes pain as having two components which consist of sensory and emotional aspects. In addition to that, Basbaum feels pain is not a stimulus because it is a physical stimulus which our brain turns into a perception of that physical stimulus and in return we get pain. Thus, do put it simple he described it has people seeing and then assuming

LA 10 Pre AP Summer Project Question Answers 1. An allusion is a part of the text that readers are already supposed to know because they have read or heard of it before. Its purpose is to give more meaning to what is being portrayed in the specific text. In other words it is supposed to poke at some background information to make readers understand it more. The two allusions in “The Masque of Red Death”, are to Shakespeare and to the Bible. The quote, “He had come like a thief in the night"(Poe

Dramatic Irony in Hamlet: Critical Analysis Dramatic irony is a stylistic literary technique used in many of Shakespeare’s tragedies to create suspense for the audience. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience or readers discover information that other characters in the play are not aware of. This allows the audience to make predictions as to what’s going to happen next; thus keeping them engaged in the plot. There are many incidences of dramatic irony that exist in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy

Over the past class periods in ENGL 1301, we went over the rhetorical skills used around us in our daily lives. By persuading the audience using Ethos, Pathos and Logos, writers can maneuver their audience in any way that they wish. More specifically, in order to be part of a community, that person must share the views to be considered a member. All throughout my four years of high school, I believe I was part of a discourse community. That discourse community was the basketball team. This paper