inflections as in Japanese, Korean, and English. For this reason, Sampson (2015) claims that Chinese is an isolating language, in which each word form typically comprises a single morpheme. Last, although each character is written independently, Chinese is not entirely monosyllabic because compound...
It is these same presuppositions that inform the philosophical vocabulary and set the parameters from which their meanings in context must be parsed. Are we then to understand that these generic, persistent cultural assumptions are essential and unchanging conditions of Chinese cosmology? Of course ...
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That’s why it’s a complicated big deal. Ji-Young has more in common with my children who are third generation, born with both “American” and Korean names with meanings that are drilled into them because for them the default will be BOTH/AND because being Korean American with each gene...
There are also throwaway lines in the script that indicate deeper meanings, but never come to fruition, such as when Dong-il muses on how lucky they were to secure the house, and how he couldn’t believe no one else bid on it. Presumably that’s because there’s some kind of evil as...
Cambodian students’ were faced with ethnic identity issues that shaped how they might be seen and treated. Gina, an eleventh grade Humanities student, explained the contradiction like this: “That stereotype is probably like something that helps us….because like last week this girl was like ‘...
Gothic is “neither immemorial or global, but belongs specifically to the modern age of Europe and the Americas since the end of the eighteenth century” (1993, p 20). Fowler points out that while the Gothic began as a “fixed genre”, it soon “yielded a gothic mode that outlasted it...
I’ve gotten so much out of watching Jordan Peterson’s lectures. It’s really impressive how deep what he says goes, and how many meanings are contained in the ideas he puts across. One of them is the idea of the dragon slayer or the monster killer. ...
In Chinese, characters for the elements are the last officially created and recognized characters in the Chinese writing system. Unlike those characters for dialectal usage (e.g., written Cantonese) or other now-defunct ad hoc characters (e.g., the those by the Empress Wu), the names for ...