December 16
Please post the following definitions by December 23. In your description of the term, please DEFINE it and the provide an EXAMPLE from class.
1. The Three Components of Language
Theories of Meaning
2. Definition Theory
3. Denotation Theory
4. Image Theory
Problems with Language
5. Vagueness
6. Ambiguity
7. Secondary Meaning (i.e. Denotation, Connotation and Euphemisms)
8. Metaphor
9. Irony
Problems with Translation
10. Untranslatable Words
11. Idioms
12. Labels
13. Stereotypes
14. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Emotionally Laden Language
15. Emotive Meaning
16. Weasel Words
17. Grammar
18. Revealing and Concealing
Also, please post your notes from the Language Lecture of Mr. Pontes.
Diving Bell Essay
In 1200 words, please type an answer to the following question. Due December 15.
In consideration of the book and film, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly as well as your own life, to what extent can we distinguish between knowing as an individual and knowing as a community? How much of one's knowledge depends on interaction with other knowers?
In writing the essay, consider how you and Bauby would answer the following:
a) What are the strengths and limitations of knowing as an individual vs. knowing by community?
b) Is there any way to gain knowledge by Description and Acquaintance (the Abel definition) without depending on interaction with others?
c) In gaining knowledge, which is the most powerful way we justify our knowledge claims: intuition, empirical sense perception, reasoning both by induction or deduction, memory, authority or divine revelation?
In consideration of the book and film, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly as well as your own life, to what extent can we distinguish between knowing as an individual and knowing as a community? How much of one's knowledge depends on interaction with other knowers?
In writing the essay, consider how you and Bauby would answer the following:
a) What are the strengths and limitations of knowing as an individual vs. knowing by community?
b) Is there any way to gain knowledge by Description and Acquaintance (the Abel definition) without depending on interaction with others?
c) In gaining knowledge, which is the most powerful way we justify our knowledge claims: intuition, empirical sense perception, reasoning both by induction or deduction, memory, authority or divine revelation?
Diving Bell #5
Please answer the following Questions on your blog. The answers must be posted by December 7.
1. Read The Ladies of Hong Kong. Think of a place you know by smell. Can you adequately describe it? Which situation is more horrific? Bauby's or Jean-Paul K. Please explain your answer.
2. After reading Wax Museum, why do you think Bauby is "fond of all these torturers"?
3. Read The Mythmaker and explain why you think Bauby has admiration for Olivier. What is the connection between memory and emotion?
4. Why do you think Bauby likes the song A Day in the Life? Why do humans always wait for life's crescendo? Why do you think he places this chapter towards the end of the book?
5. Read Season of Renewal. Why is he savoring the last week of August? Is there something we can learn from him beause of his reaction to the end of vacation?
1. Read The Ladies of Hong Kong. Think of a place you know by smell. Can you adequately describe it? Which situation is more horrific? Bauby's or Jean-Paul K. Please explain your answer.
2. After reading Wax Museum, why do you think Bauby is "fond of all these torturers"?
3. Read The Mythmaker and explain why you think Bauby has admiration for Olivier. What is the connection between memory and emotion?
4. Why do you think Bauby likes the song A Day in the Life? Why do humans always wait for life's crescendo? Why do you think he places this chapter towards the end of the book?
5. Read Season of Renewal. Why is he savoring the last week of August? Is there something we can learn from him beause of his reaction to the end of vacation?
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