A NEVER-ENDING STORY: SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY, INTERFERENCE AND INTERCULTURAL CHARACTERISTICSinterferenceLSPnegotiation of meaningfalse friendsintercultural specificityMisleading FL-equivalents, misunderstandings, often failures too, but at the same time regional/local specificity, they all ...
In Politics and the Novel, Irving Howe speaks of Bazarov as a “superfluous” man, meaning one of a line of Russian characters who are dedicated to making a radical transformation in a society that is not ready to be radically transformed and that therefore doesn’t need them or know what...
reason. The acting is hammy and most of the dialog is cheesy. Some of my favorite films from my childhood are timeless classics that still hold up today and I can watch them anytime (like Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Star wars, ect.) Sadly, The Neverending Story isn't one of them....
In this paper we will illustrate that in order to achieve interoperability, computer hardware and software have to be able to interpret data, i.e., understand their structure and their meaning. That understanding has to be conveyed somehow from the real world by the creators of the computing ...
Focusing on our lineage, the Metazoa, scientists are fairly confident that the single-celled/colonial group of eukaryotes known as the Choanoflagellates represent our living "sister group," meaning we share a relatively recent common ancestor. Comparing the natural history of choanoflagellates with...
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”— Thornton Wilder “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”— Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing to you that you must not associa...
But stepping back from these old-school thematic allusions, the weakness that this exemplifies, the hole in the story, is obvious. When you resurrect dead characters in your fiction, then death just naturally begins to lose its meaning as a plot point, with subsequent deaths having less of an...
beginning - the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" middle - an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle6...
This history has been, and will continue to be, a story both of disenchantment and of indeterminate andnever-endinghopes. From theCambridge English Corpus Thisnever-endingprogress, however, comes up against the unalterable fact of death, which becomes the meaning-destructive central truth of life...