Parfit's View of Personal Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
I intend to explicate Derek Parfit's view regarding personal identity as non-branching psychological continuity as well as some of its ethical and emotional implications. In addition, I will present Parfit's split-brain transplant thought experiment as evidence for his view that psychological...
Tarleton, GA: Dead or Alive?
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
For those caught up in the Southern Myth, antebellum southernmost Georgia is a lot like Heaven. F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a Confederate dreamer to the North and back home to Tarleton, Georgia, in his short story “The Ice Palace.” The Southern girl, Sally Carrol Happer, finds herself...
The Church's Grasp: Captivity in Joyce's Dubliners
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
It is easy to recognize when one is held captive by the unfamiliar, but the crippling effect of familiar forces is not so easily realized. Throughout American captivity narratives, typically female Anglo-Americans are ensnared by Native Americans, the “other” of early Anglo-American...
Masking the Profound: Yeats and Nietzsche's Masks
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Though it is impossible to measure the degree of influence that the work of Friedrich Nietzsche had upon William Butler Yeats, a definite change in Yeats' poetry occurred soon after the point in which the Irishman received a copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra in 1902. The “masks” that...
Work on Construction Grammar and Grammatical Constructions
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
If one wants to understand what lies at the heart of Construction Grammar, one should first tackle the following questions: what do speakers of a given language have to know, and what can they "figure out" on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully and...
Adjectives in Cognitive Linguistic
Essay - 16 pages - Linguistics & languages
During the seminar, we have buckled down to the arduous task of understanding and using a brand new theoretical field of study as far as the great family of linguistics is concerned. This paper and the database we have come to build out are the concrete results of a work which turned out to be...
The English language: a personal point of view
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
The English language is the first language of about 350 million people and probably as many people can speak and understand English as a second language. English also has an official or special status in more than 75 countries. About 80% of the world's electronically stored information is...
Translating ' WHO ' and ' WHICH ' From Bulgarian into English ? Problems of Number and Gender Transfer
Essay - 11 pages - Linguistics & languages
There are a number of problems that a translator might have when translating wh- words from Bulgarian into English. In this paper, we will look at "who? and "which? in particular. Why is there a problem? In English, "who? and "which? do not take grammatical markers for gender and number, while in...
The place of the French language in our society
Essay - 13 pages - Linguistics & languages
The French language is one those languages which are spoken all around the world. It's the 11th most used language through the world, the second most commonly-taught second language in the world (after English) and the official language in 29 countries . According to some estimations, more than...
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics & languages
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional responses...
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...
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...
