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Not only does she command Paul to cater to her needs by claiming the directions are from God, but she also says that whatever she instructs is unquestionable.... The paper "Literary Theory and Its Applicability to Tobermory Tales by Lorn Macintyre" states that Sheila gains control over Jesse, who is the main symbol of feminism in the story....
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In his Course in General Linguistics, Saussure maintained that language should be divided into two components: "langue," referring to the entire body of a language, and "parole," referring to a specific utterance or individual act of speech within a language.... The focus of the paper "language and Ideology" is on the work of Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Marx and Engels, Derrida, and Lacan, the relationship between language and ideology, relation to ideology, seminal analysis of the structure of words and their associated meanings....
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The paper "Application of Jacques Lacan's Theories" analyzes the concept of Real and the effect of the uncanny refers to a psychic event that precedes the distinction between reality and imaginative reality.... ... ... ... The end of XIX and the beginning of XX centuries were the time of natural sciences reign....
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The essay "English-language learning experience" examines a personal English-language learning experience at Iwaki Koukou Junior High School in Naruto, Japan and through an examination of communicative competence in a number of related research articles, offers a modified lesson.... The English-language textbook we used was called New Horizon and it focused on grammar and vocabulary lessons, with different characters from around the world – there was a Canadian and an Australian in the book who would converse with Japanese learners....
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This was a popular approach for learning the language until fairly recently because its effectiveness has been questioned.... escriptive grammarians on the other hand attempt to describe the language as well as explain why it is the way it is, and various theoretical models are used for the purpose.... (1994) view the semantic complexity of language-specific categories as “the main problem in the analysis of any verb system”... Furthermore, substitution frames for example, do not always help, and they can become cumbersome for structuralists to define for all instances of word occurrences....
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This paper "Concepts of Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity" introduces the theoretical background to those concepts, explaining where these terms come from, and what they mean in linguistics studies, challenges faced by a translator who aims to take into account these concepts.... ... ... ... Several concrete examples are presented from English and other languages to illustrate both small scale and large scale adjustments which have been made by translators in order to convey the implicatures of their chosen sources....
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This essay stresses that children acquire the sounds of their language from the pre-linguistic stage itself.... According to the report the real interactions between people around make him an active participant in the process of acquiring the sounds of that particular language.... What is dealt with in this essay is the specific topic how children acquire sounds of their language.... Though the capacity to acquire a language is innate, an assistance and scaffolding are necessary for the children....
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nxiety thus signifies the paradoxical existence of the intimidating and the pleasing in one and the same form of language, thereby indicating something about the possible function of art, and its modes of expression and figuration.... This essay "Structuralist Movement And Lacan'S Role In The Structural Psychoanalysis" discusses how this movement had more an ideological than an organizational nature because all of its participants had a particular individuality and independent way in science, so, they denied their affiliation to the Structuralism....
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