differently between cats. · Purring is often understood as signifying happiness; however, cats sometimes purr when they are ill, or during tense, traumatic, or painful moments. Body language · Cats communicate a variety of messages using body language. Examples include arching their backs as a signal of fear or aggression, and slowly blinking to signal relaxation. A cat that chooses to lie with its stomach and chest exposed conveys happiness, trust, and comfort. Flattened ears mean that the cat feels threatened, and may attack. Mouth open and no teeth exposed suggests a feeling of playfulness.
Report A task was given to write a report which conveys the results of a survey about shopping habits of people of different ages and gender. The results of the survey were mostly the same, although there are some differences in answers. How much does one shop? About 1/3 of the 9 people surveyed said that they go shopping once a week. Others said that they shopped at least two times a week and it takes about 30 minutes for men and a hour for women to buy groceries and at least an hour if it's a shopping spree.
receiving his business degree. While working at A. Rivetz & Co., Lauren began designing wide ties, which spawned his first entrepreneurial career. With his tie designs and a $50,000 loan, Lauren founded the company Polo Fashions in 1968. Along with his older brother, he chose the name Polo because of the power, style and intrigue that the brand has always been associated with. The Polo brand known today as the preppy English-tweed look it conveys did not get to be a million dollar empire because Lauren was lucky, nor because Lauren had an immaculate sense of style. Lauren not only had an innovative mind, but he also knew that packaging and presentation were of utmost importance -- something he didn't need to learn while studying for his business degree. It is Lauren's innovativeness, among many other traits of the model businessman, that has made him the founder, designer and chairman of a $900 million company. Not
Swear words can also be used in a more positive manner, in the form of jokes and humor, storytelling, self-deprecation or even social commentary. If one may want to emphasize how great one feels something is, a swear words emphasizes the positive feelings you have for that object, situation, person or event ("This concert is fucking awesome!"). Sure, one could just say "This concert is awesome," but the addition of the swear word emphasizes the emotional reaction we have toward it -- and easily conveys that emotional reaction to others (psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/03/30/why-do-we-swear) Thirdly, although swearing may have positive sides as well, it is still seen as inappropriate or "bad language", which comes from bad manners or low education. Especially problematic is it when children swear, although they may not mean anything bad, or do not even know what the word means, they simply imitate, what they have heard from parents, for example. Usually, when a child
descriptive by a descriptive term. Beginning a Technical Translation: The basic technology is engineering The main branch of engineering is mechanics Do not specialise to early Practise a range of technologies The translation is interested in the description and function of the concept, not so much in the underlying theories Choose language that most appropriately conveys what is taking place in reality. Translation Method (closest to literal translation) Read to understand Assess proportion of persuation to information Assess the degree of formality Assess intention Assess possible professional and cultural differences between the SL and the TL readership Give your translation a recognised house-style(where is it going to be published) Account for everything in the SL text
radar an object-detection system that uses radar radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects sampling the reduction of a continuous signal to a diskreetimine discrete signal sampling the number of samples per second diskreetimissa rate taken from a continuous signal to create gedus a discrete signal signal a function that conveys information signaal about the behavior or attributes of some phenomenon signal an enabling technology that signaalitöötlus processing encompasses the fundamental theory, applications, algorithms, and implementations of processing or transferring information contained in formats broadly designated as signals sonar a technique that uses sound sonar
to talk about plays, and which to talk about both: an act / the author / a box-office hit / the cast / characters / a classic / extras / a flop / a masterpiece / a performance / the plot / a role / a scene / a script / the stage / a star / a thriller Exercise 6 Use the language below to talk to others in your group about a film you have seen recently. The film is directed/ produced by ... It is set in ... It stars ... The role of X is played by ... It portrays / shows ... It conveys a sense of ... X gives a superb / thrilling / disappointing performance ... I can thoroughly recommend ... I found the plot rather weak / unconvincing The film tells the story of ... This film is based on the novel of ... particularly impressive scenes The plot focuses on ... The story begins ... The plot has an unexpected twist ... The film reaches a dramatic climax ... It is rather long / confusing / slow, etc. The cast is excellent / weak / convincing ...
sentence: ‘’I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight’’. Martin Luther King uses the valleys, hills, mountains and rough places to symbolically represent racial inequalities and hardships across the land that must be corrected. The distance between the low and high points represents the equality gap that he wishes to reduce. He conveys this by stating they "shall be exalted", "made low" and "made straight”. By using these words to create imagery he adds further depth and meaning to this passage. Another literary device present in this speech would be parallelism as seen in the following sentence: ‘’With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day’’
However, the administrative burden of regulating the pricing of all firms that produce differentiated products would be overwhelming. Another way in which monopolistic competition may be socially inefficient: - The number of firms in the market may not be the "ideal" one. · There may be too much or too little entry. The product-variety externality: · Because consumers get some consumer surplus from the introduction of a new product, entry of a new firm conveys a positive externality on consumers. The business-stealing externality: · Because other firms lose customers and profits from the entry of a new competitor, entry of a new firm imposes a negative externality on existing firms. Advertising When firms sell differentiated products and charge prices above marginal cost, each firm has an incentive to advertise in order to attract more buyers to its particular product.
Before departing, Marianne wanders the grounds of Norland uttering a histrionic elegy: "Dear, dear Norland... Oh! happy house... And you, ye well-known trees!" Elinor, however, experiences a far more subdued depression--though she is leaving behind not just her home but also a man she has grown to deeply care for and admire. The early chapters also display the wry irony for which Austen is so famous as a novelist. She is unsparingly critical of the characters she dislikes, but conveys her criticism with a pointed subtlety, which makes it all the more forceful. For example, in the opening chapter, Austen sketches the character of John Dashwood in three masterful sentences, achieving a biting acerbity: the author begins elliptically with a double negative, only slyly to refute it: "He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold-hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed..." She then ends the paragraph by explicitly skewering both John and his wife: "Mrs
achievable through the development of a consensus where everyone agrees to abide by majority rule, which a government or sovereign body then enacts. In Locke's view simply being in the confines of a society implies tacit consent, meaning it becomes mandatory to adhere to the law. Locke's claim can be argued to be both logical and valid, but when put under scrutiny it does not hold as much weight as some would claim. It cannot be assumed that functional locationism automatically conveys consent, Hume (1960, p. 234) gives a clear analogy encapsulating this point ...can we seriously say that a poor peasant or artisan has a free choice to leave his country, when he knows no foreign language, and lives, from day to day by the small wages which he acquires... Locke refers to this tacit or overt expression of consent as a binding fiduciary compact as it is contingent on the sovereign body to ensure its commitment to
A gesture is a non-vocal bodily movement intended to express meaning. They may be articulated with the hands, arms or body, and also include movements of the head, face and eyes, such as winking, nodding, or rolling one's eyes. Emblems are gestures with direct verbal translations, such as a goodbye wave; Illustrators are gestures that depict what is said verbally, such as turning an imaginary steering wheel while talking about driving; an affect display is a gesture that conveys emotions, like a smile; regulators are gestures that control interaction; an adaptor is a gesture that facilitates the release of bodily tension, such as quickly moving one's leg. Speech-independent gestures are dependent upon culturally accepted interpretation and have a direct verbal translation. A wave hello or a peace sign are examples of speech-independent gestures. Speech related gestures are used in parallel with verbal speech; this form of nonverbal
Words are then either neutral formal informal (or: neutral colloquial literary). This colouring (formal informal) is always present in a word (e.g. "drink" (neutral) "beverage" (literary) "pull" (colloquial); "home" (neutral) "residence" (literary) "digs" (colloquial). Phonestheme is a subtype of IC. This is a repeated combination of sounds that has a more or less clearly perceived meaning. E.g. "fl" combination of sounds conveys the idea of airiness, brightness with the implication of insecurity; "sl" has the meaning of slowness and inactivity; "spr" conveys the idea of energetic, risk, and lively motion. 3. ADHERENT CONNOTATION Meaning of a word has: a denotation (meaning proper, we find it in dictionaries) and a connotation (an additional shade of meaning). Connotation may be a permanent part of word meaning it is then called inherent connotation. Connotation is ever present when the word is used
). Connotation may be a permanent part of word meaning it is then called inherent connotation. Connotation is ever present when the word is used. Adherent connotation is the shade of meaning the word requires in a particular context only. Outside this context this shade of meaning is not present. Connotation is not uniform (even). On the one hand there are words that convey emotional or expressive overtones (e.g. OK fine - gorgeous "gorgeous" conveys emotional overtones). On the other hand they may contain evaluation (the speaker's or writer's negative or positive attitude) (e.g. famous (positive) notorious (negative). Arnold: "For example the words: "girl", "maiden", "lass", "lassie", "chick", "baby", and "young lady" have identical denotation and may be referred to one and the same person, but the use of this or that word depends not so much on the qualities of the girl herself as on the
adventure series about Alisa Selezneva, a teenage girl from the future. Others include Nikolay Nosov with his books about dwarf Neznayka, Evgeny Veltistov, who wrote about robot boy Electronic, Vitaly Melentyev, Vladislav Krapivin, Vitaly Gubarev. Mystery was another popular genre. Detectives by brothers Arkady and Georgy Vayner and spy novels by Yulian Semyonov were best-selling, and many of them were adapted into film or TV in the 1970s and 1980s. Village prose is a genre that conveys nostalgic descriptions of rural life. Valentin Rasputin's 1976 novel, Proshchaniye s Matyoroy (Farewell to Matyora) depicted a village faced with destruction to make room for a hydroelectric plant. Historical fiction in the early Soviet era included a large share of memoirs, fictionalized or not. Valentin Katayev and Lev Kassil wrote semi-autobiographic books about children's life in Tsarist Russia. Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote Moscow and Muscovites, about life in pre- revolutionary Moscow
Essays, Lectures, and Poems (New York: Bantam Classics). 3. John 5:30 (New Revised Standard Version). 4. Mark 11:24 (New Revised Standard Version). 5. Revelation 21:1 (New Revised Standard Version). 6. Luke 17:21 (New Revised Standard Version). 7. Matthew 5:5 (New Revised Standard Version). ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is a way out of suffering and into peace. Tolle travels extensively, taking his teachings throughout the world. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
of music to our way of living. 2 XII. THE FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTIES. DODECAPHONY OF ARVO PÄRT. Changes and renovation took place both in economic life and in all fields of culture. Both the quantitative and qualitative growth in Estonian literature is obvious. Such prominent authors as Friedebert Tuglas and Betti Alver, who had withdrawn from literary life, started to publish their works again. The latter stands out as one of Estonia’s profound writers, her poetry conveys understanding of the sense of all human 1 Kodumaa (Homeland) 24 Jan. 1968. 2 Kuus eesti Eesti tänase muusika loojat. (Six Creators of Estonian Modern Music) (Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1970) p. 65. existence. In prose much attention was paid to psychological and ethical problems, especially in the works of Erni Krusten (1900-1984) and Paul Kuusberg (1916-2003). In literature we observe the slackening of ideological pressure. The concept of
beliefs they do not share." The first of the latter moves is semantically desperate; the second, in the absence of some independent motivation, is ad hoc. 10 According to cummings' poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (cited in chapter 1), its protagonist [A]nyone "sang his didn't he danced his did" (line 4). 11 Searle himself reserves the term "indirect" for types of communication, such as indirect force and some conversational implicature, in which one conveys a second meaning in addition to meaning what one's sentence says. 12 A real-life example, I am sorry to say, brought up by Hans during a seminar. 13 This idea is actually very old; Aristotle explored it, and it was vigorously elaborated by the medieval philosophers. Glossary Analytic A sentence is analytic if its truth, however trivial, is guaranteed by the
T h e delayed-crisis structure matches closely with the ideal of the Golden M e a n , that elegant proportion (approximately three to five) that seems to produce the most pleasing artistic results. A delayed crisis leaves more room for preparation and Approach and allows a slow buildup to a big moment at the end of Act Two. W h e t h e r the crisis is at the center of the story or nearer the end of Act Two, it's safe to say every story needs a crisis moment that conveys the Ordeal's sense of death and revival. 158 T H E ORDEAL P O I N T S OF T E N S I O N Act Two is a long stretch for the writer and the audience, up to an hour in an average feature film. You can look at the three-act structure as a dramatic line stretched across two major points of tension, the act breaks. Like a circus tent hanging on its poles,
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