从《喜福会》看中美家庭价值观差异 摘要：美国著名华裔作家谭恩美的代表作《喜福会》，讲述了四个从中国移民到美国的家庭中，中国母亲和美国化了的女儿之间的矛盾与冲突，是研究探讨中美价值观的极佳范本。本文将从《喜福会》入手，运用比较研究法着重探讨中美家庭价值观中家庭概念与地位、婚姻观、教育观的差异，并进一步分析导致这些差异的深层原因，如文化环境、传统观念、社会形态等。通过分析其原因，有助于加深两国的相互了解，进行有效的交流，使中国的家庭价值观得以发展和完善。 关键词：喜福会；家庭价值观；家庭教育；婚姻观；差异 A Study of Differences of Family Values in Chinese and American Cultures with The Joy Luck Club as an Example Abstract: The Joy Luck Club, is the famous second generation Chinese American writer Amy Tan’s magnum opus. It is a
Semantics is commonly defined as “the study of meaning.” Any subject that covers a wide and diverse subject matter, such as “meaning,” will not be merely understood with a single sentence explanation. To begin understanding semantics, one must have a grasp on its different branches, including, general, conceptual, and lexical semantics. While there are almost endless branches, these three primary examples embody the native elements of semantics. Semantics is not defined by black and white rules,
Effect Comparing Color Word Labels and Color Patch Labels Abstract The current study examined four components of the Stroop effect using a manual word response and a manual color response. The major focus being the three semantic components – semantic relatedness, semantic relevance and response set membership, that contributes to the Stroop interference. The results indicated that there was a response set membership effect in both the manual word response and manual color response, suggesting
to discuss the semantic choices that a writer makes in the construction of meaning to make sense of the text at morphology level, lexical level, sentence level as well as discourse level. Meanwhile, it would demonstrate how to share information between readers and writer at discourse level in the act of communication which implicated the teaching method in English classes. To fulfill this purpose, this paper is consisted in the following sections: morphology level analysis, lexical level analysis
Compositional semantics the meaning of the sentence and longer utterances are studied. The meaning of the sentence to determine the meaning of the components and the way in which they are arranged into meaningful phrases and sentences. Another part of compositional semantics are anomalies in which the semantic properties of words determine what other words they can be combined with. For example, the sentence Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. This sentence follows all the English rules of semantics, but
Analysis of Semantics and Pragmatics in Two Texts Linguistics is the science of a language. Linguists depend on the use of certain aspects in order to analyse, describe and explain a human language; these aspects include semantics and pragmatics. Semantics can be defined as the study of "meaning" of lexical words and expressions independently of context. Where pragmatics is the process of recognising the "invisible meaning" of lexical items and expressions; taking into account the speaker's/
difficulties happen frequently. When language is ambiguous, it can be interpreted in more than one way and the true meaning isn’t always clear. There are three types of ambiguity that can cause these unclear messages and they can be structural, lexical, or semantic. When looking at newspaper headlines, I found one specifically that was unintentionally humorous and left me questioning the information presented. It read, “Miners Refuse to Work after Death”, which at first made me think “well…obviously”
52 Based on the above observations on the text, we will focus in detail on the principles of text connectivity and communication. Text Connectivity: Cohesion and Coherence As we have discussed the above, the central concern of textlinguistics is to discern how different parts of a text (sentence or paragraph) are combined together according to the principles of connectivity through which dynamic communication is available. In order to investigate the rules of text connectivity and communication,
Figure 2.0.2 Lexical Cohesion based on Halliday and Hasan (1967) Reiteration, as the first category of lexical cohesion, is a phenomenon in which the lexical item refers back to another item that has a connection with a general reference. It is a lexical cohesion which forms a constituent that has been mentioned. Reiteration consists of repetition, hyponymy, synonyms, and antonymy. The purpose of using these aspects of reiteration is to obtain the effect of the intensity of the meaning of language
The study of Semantics allows us to identify the meaning of words and phrases in their literal sense, and helps us to make meaning out of arbitrary sounds and phrases. It has been contributed to by both linguists and philosophers. Linguists used lexical decomposition to understand the features that comprise words and the categories in which the words fit. Philosophers dealt more with the meanings of sentences and truth condition and reference (Parker and Riley 2010: 28).Semantics is still not a
Spanglish is a well-known term that describes the linguistic behaviors on Spanish speakers, who’s Spanish is uniquely influenced from the English language. Spanglish can also be defined as a “mixed-code vernacular that includes a range of linguistic phenomena, most notably code-switching”. Despite the fact that Puerto Rican linguist, Salvador Tio, coined the term ‘Spanglish’ in the late 1940’s, this language contact phenomena has actually been used over the past 150 years, since the Treaty of Guadalupe
For instance, symple, an old English word, is changed to simple. Also, speche is changed into speech. Language change is classified into typologies, like semantic change, sound change, lexical change, spelling change, syntactic change and other changes that play a role in the change of language overtime. Semantic change, also called semantic drift, progression, or shift, is the change of word usage, usually to the point that the new meaning is completely different from that of the old meaning. It
bird are you, if you cannot swim”, said the duck and dived. (Prokofiér, Peter und der Wolf)[1] Prototype theory, within the field of prototype semantics, originated in the mid 1970s with the psycholinguistic research of Eleanor Rosch into the internal structure of categories. Its revolutionary character marked a new era for the discussions on lexical meaning and brought existing theories (such as the classical view) into question. The above quote represents the essence of the prototypical conception
(1976, p.4) states that “the concept of cohesion is a semantic one, it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text”, this suggests that cohesion happens when some of the elements is dependent on each other. Halliday & Hasan (1976), McCarthy (1991) and others suggest that there are different kind of ties that interrelates texts which are ellipsis/substitution, conjunction, reference, general lexical cohesion, instantial lexical cohesion and thematic patterning. With the use of above
2008) as the translation of a word from its semantic representation, or the meaning, of a word to its phonological form, also known as the sound. (Harley, 2008) Lexicalization contains a two-stage process whereby the first stage is meaning based and the second stage is phonologically based. When an individual first produces a word, they go from a semantic level to an intermediate level of individual words, the process of choosing the word is known as lexical selection. (Harley, 2008) The individual
SEMANTICS–PRAGMATICS INTERACTION It seems unlikely that there will ever be consensus about the extent to which we can reliably distinguish semantic phenomena from pragmatic phenomena. But there is now broad agreement that a sentence's meaning can be given in full only when it is studied in its natural habitat: as part of an utterance by an agent who intends it to communicate a message. Here, we document some of the interactions that such study has uncovered. In every case, to achieve even a basic
that the copular sentences carry ambiguity as they either express identity or predication. This chapter is concerned with the syntactic analysis of the copula constructions of Punjabi. The discussion starts with the idea that copula also has some semantic content which is counter to the earlier general assumption that copula is semantically empty. The section 3.1 is concerned with some definitions and classification of copula construction; one, based on the class of constituents involved (Bhatia 1993
For my first piece of original writing I intend to create a piece primarily written for entertainment however, I also want to portray an interest into historical and political persuasions. I aim to write this piece for an audience of teenagers to young adult who are aged from around fifteen to twenty-five and are male, I also wish to identify with those interested in political thrillers within this age range. The genre of which shall be a short fiction story consisting chiefly of narrative
Pickering & Traxler, 2000) proposes that semantic information is also used in sentence processing. Therefore this essay will d... ... middle of paper ... ... comprehension. Science, 304, 436-441. Harley, T.A. (2008). The physiology of language. From data to theory. Hove: Psychology Press. Jackendoff, R. (2003). Foundations of Language: Brain, Grammar, Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. MacDonald, M.C., Pearlmutter, N.J., & Seidenberg, M.S. (1994). Lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution
Grammatical functions serve a purpose of relating predicational units and arguments to one another. They are assumed as part of the syntactic inventory of every language and could also be known as Grammatical Relations. Though some argue that the term grammatical relation is vague, and grammatical functions are a more specific term, which is a link between function and structure (Falk, 2000). Moreover, LFG is a phrased used to refer to the designations of SUBJect, OBJect, OBJθ, COMP, XCOMP, OBLiqueθ