Thursday, September 20, 2007

Kim Bueche week 2 vocab.

Paradigm


Description: Acting as a pattern that appears over and over.

POS: Noun.

Related words: Example, symbol, and pattern.

Sentence: The architect’s model house was a paradigm to the real house.

Philology

Description: The study of languages.

POS: Noun.

Related words: Speech, linguistics, and writing.

Sentence: Ancient scribes are translated with philology.

Phonology

Description: Studying a word and how it is pronounced.

POS: Noun.

Related words: Biology, anthropology, and geology (same suffix).

Sentence: Learning about Spanish culture and language is interesting. I like the phonology of Spanish.

Rhetoric

Description: Studying how a language effectively works.

POS: Noun.

Related words: Eloquence, oratory, and persuasive.

Sentence: When you are in Media Communications with Mrs. Hamersma you learn to be rhetorical.

Syntax

Description: The rules/guidelines of the words in language.

POS: Noun.

Related words: Structure, principles, and etymology.

Sentence: The English test Mrs. Schellenberg gave us was easy except the part about syntax.