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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English com‧plex‧i‧ty/kəmˈpleksəti/●○○AWLnoun(pluralcomplexities)1[uncountable]the state of beingcomplicatedcomplexity ofThere is increasing recognition of the complexity of the causes of poverty.a design of great complexity2[countable usually...
Specifically, the present study seeks to find out how ELF users express meaning relations in research articles using different syntactic structures. The same syntactic phenomena are also analyzed in comparable texts written in American English (AmE) to see in which way ELF writing is shaping ...
word-forming element making abstract nouns from adjectives and meaning "condition or quality of being ___," from Middle English-ite, from Old French-ete(Modern French-ité) and directly from Latin-itatem(nominative-itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of-i-(from the stem or e...
The texts (sequences) are compared exclusively from the point of view of their structural complexity with no reference to the meaning of the texts which is beyond the scope of this article. Results of such a comparison of protein sequences with various texts, written in English, Italian and ...
In this essay, we argue that the grammar of a text—especially, the syntactic complexity of sentences in a text—should be included as an explicit and distinct component in a text complexity model due to the fact that grammar contributes to the meaning of text and grammatical meaning impacts ...
This often results in a competition between different performance dimensions, especially between form (i. e. complexity and accuracy) and meaning (i. e. fluency), or between different aspects of form. The latter model envisages that the pressure resulting from high cognitive load will limit...
'This is not an easy book', opens Vincent Scully's introduction to Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966). Nonetheless, the object, as well as the aim, of Complexity and Contradiction seems straightforward enough: a theory of design providing an alternative to 'orth...
Language consists of three systems: sound, form and meaning. This creates great obstacles to translation, because in translation, it is hard, even impossible to convey the three systems at the same time. We can only convey something and abandon something else.关键词:...
article{1141102, author = {Delbeke, Maarten}, issn = {1360-2365}, journal = {JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE}, language = {eng}, number = {3}, pages = {267--282}, title = {Mannerism and meaning in complexity and contradiction in architecture}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/...