Showing posts with label 2nd hr. - w/o vocab 9/19/07. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2nd hr. - w/o vocab 9/19/07. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Emily Z.

Paradigm
1. Serves as a pattern or model
2. Noun
3. Example (s), model (s), pattern (s)
4. The blueprints of the house are the paradigm for the builders.

Philology
1. Study of texts and written records
2. Noun
3. Language (s), alphabet (s), linguistics (s)
4. In college Bob is planning on taking a philology class.

Phonology
1. Study of pattering of speech sounds in language
2. Noun
3. Language (s), accent (s), grammar (s)
4. While learning Spanish, practicing the correct phonology is dufficult.

Rhetoric
1. The study of using language effectively and persuasively.
2. Noun
3. Expression (s), speech (s), rant (s)
4. The author wrote the essay with a rhetoric style.

Syntax
1. Study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in language.
2. Noun
3. Structure (s), Alphabet (s), grammar (s)
4. The syntax of the sentence was correct.


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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Andrea's Vocab

Paradigm:
Definition: It is like a symbol that is really clear, and it appears over and over.
POS: Noun.
Synonyms: Archetype, example, symbol.
Picture: Turned in in class.
In the book I was reading, Gilgamesh, the ocean was a paradigm, it symbolized the loss of control; this appears over and over in many novels.
Notes: Etymology: Late Latin paradigma, from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknynai to show side by side, from para- + deiknynai to show

Philology:
Description: Love of words.
POS: Noun.
Picture: Turned in in class.
Synonyms: Etymology, Linguistics, interpretation.
Sentence: I will not be studying philology in college because I do not have a love for words.
Notes: Etymology: French philologie, from Latin philologia love of learning and literature, from Greek, from philologos fond of learning and literature, from phil- + logos word, speech

Phonology:
Description: A study that studies the changes in sound, in a language.
POS: Noun.
Synonyms: Pronunciation, phonemes, descriptive linguistics.
Picture: Turned in in class.
The phonology of the Chinese language fascinates me, the changes in the sound are really interesting and I’d like to learn them someday.
Notes: Phonology can be used in England to place a person relatively close to the region where that person learned to speak.

Rhetoric:
Description: Being persuasive.
POS: Noun.
Picture: Turned in in class.
Synonyms: Flowery language, long speech, persuasive.
Sentence: I use rhetoric when trying to make my brother eat his vegetables, I persuade him to eat them.
Notes: Etymology: Middle English rethorik, from Anglo-French rethorique, from Latin rhetorica, from Greek rhEtorikE, literally, art of oratory, from feminine of rhEtorikos of an orator, from rhEtOr orator, rhetorician, from eirein to say, speak.

Syntax:
Description: The way words are put together to make a sentence.
POS: Noun.
Picture: Turned in in class.
Synonyms: Alphabet, Structure, Grammar.
Sentence: I struggle with syntax, sometimes I don’t have subject/verb agreement and it screws up the whole sentence.
Notes: Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French sintaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek, from syntassein to arrange together, from syn- + tassein to arrange