Music, emotion and Zipf's law - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics & languages
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifested itself in Zipf's law and was modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e into a signal-object reference matrix, giving rise to the idea that it may be possible to identify the elements in music that elicit emotional...
Translation report: Recipe language
Dissertation - 17 pages - Linguistics & languages
It is true that England is not reputed for its cuisine. Perhaps it is significant that there is no real equivalent for the expression bon appétit in English (waiters only say “enjoy your meal”). However, there are different specialties in England such as the famous English breakfast...
A study of two literary texts: Virginia woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Michael Cunningham's The hour (1999)
Dissertation - 88 pages - Linguistics & languages
Exploring a text and discovering different layers of its meaning is a valuable experience that sharpens literary sensitiveness. The more we read, the more we know how to read. The semantic richness locked in a graphical word from which it cannot be separated can always be renewed, and literature...
Harry Potter - Translation and analysis
Dissertation - 13 pages - Linguistics & languages
Everybody has heard about Harry Potter, the famous book by J.K. Rowling and the famous wizard. It is, as everybody knows, a very popular novel everywhere in the world. It is particularly popular in the country where it was written. Not only children, but also many grown-ups actually love it. We...
The French influence on the English vocabulary
Essay - 11 pages - Linguistics & languages
This quotation of the contemporary glossary by Robert of Gloucester brilliantly sums up the linguistic situation of the English society in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. While French became the language of power and prestige and left its mark on the English language, English remained...
