The four main hierarchy levels are:
Beginner- Animals
Superordinate- Lexical Gap
Basic- Dogs
Subordinate - Shitzu
Beginner- Animals
Superordinate- Fish
Basic- Shark
Subordinate- Hamerhead shark
Beginner- Animals
Superordinate- Birds
Basic- Peacock
Subordinate- NO SUBORDINATE
I was reviewing for our Analysis and realized I keep getting metaphors and idioms confused. Here are some examples I came up with to help me figure them out.
1.) It's raining cats and dogs-
metaphore because it is not literal. In it's
literal sense, cats and dogs would be falling from the sky.
2.) Iraq's government is in it's infancy-
idiom because it is more literal than the previous
example. Infancy can also be referred to as "beginning
of..."
therefore, the statment literally means that Iraq's government is in
it's beginning.
3.) The guy is a rock-
metaphore because he is not literally a rock, he is just very muscular and may feel hard as a rock.
4.) The problem was easy as pie-
idiom because it's not literally a piece of pie
5.) cry me a river-
idiom beause rivers are water and therefore it refers to the literal meaning of crying.
For this post, I'm going to attempt to create some charts like the ones we did in class concerning verb tense.
T= Today (like Feb. 21)
MC= Maggie cook
VB= Vickey bake
When Maggie cooked the turkey, Vickey baked the cake.
VB
T
MC
When Maggie cooked the turkey, Vickey had baked the cake.
VB
MC
T
When Maggie cooked the turkey, Vickey was about to bake the cake.
MC
VB
T
When Maggie cooks the turkey, Vickey has baked the cake.
VB MC
T
When Maggie cooks the turkey, Vickey bakes the cake.
MC
T
VB
When Maggie cooks the turkey, Vickey is about to bake the cake.
T VB
MB
When Maggie cooks the turkey, Vickey will have baked the cake.
T
VB MC
When Maggie cooks the turkey, Vickey will bake the cake.
T VB
MC
When Maggie cooks the turkey, Vickey will be about to bake the cake.
T
MC VB
Since I missed all but one of the aspect questions on the homework, I'm going to test out aspect and see if I'm doing it correctly.
(a) States:
Kentucky is geographically placed below Ohio and Indiana.
My middle name, Victoria is the same as my Grandmother's name, Victoria.
Tom Cruise has a daughter.
(b) Activities:
*I am going to dance for 24 hours this weekend!
She might sing karaoke at mainstreet tonight.
People stormed from the burning building.
(c) Accomplishments:
*I am going to dance for 24 hours this weekend! (can this be an accomplishment and an activity?)
She is doing ten loads of laundry today.
I am working on my essay.
(d) Achievements:
I arrived in Salt Lake City at 10:45.
My friends and I will graduate on the same day.
George ate his entire bowl of dog food.
(e) Semelfactives
I drank.
He banged on the door.
The horse ran around the track.
After class today I created some hierarchies I'd like to share with you! I was thinking this is one way to organize these hierarchies we didn't talk about in class. Do you think this strategy works?
(1) Taxonomic:
Formal Education:
Who What Where When Why
students further education
school
primary
become more intelligent
teachers
university
elementary
home
preschool
highschool
college
graduate (masters)
doctorate
(2) Meronomic:
School:
Building Offices Nurse Cafeteria Labs
Classroom
Desk
Bed
tables
computers
Kitchenware
Desk
Chiars
dishes
chalk board
cookingware
To make sure that I am fully understanding Pleonasm, hyponyms, and superordinates, I'm going to try out a few examples.
Lets start with a simple example like in the book.
(1) female sister (pleonastic)
sister who's a queen (normal: queen is a hyponym to female)
sister relation (normal: relation is a superordinate to sister)
(2) The hot heater warmed the cold room. (pleanastic)
The space heater warmed the cold room. (normal - space heater is a hyponym to heater)
The space heater increased the
temperature by five degrees in the cold room. (normal: increased the
temperature is a superordinate to warmed/heated)
(3) Having dinner on top of the tall skyscrapper made me dizzy. (pleonastic)
Having dinner on top of the tall
building made me dizzy. (normal: tall is a superordinate to building)
The skyscraper seemed to reach the
clouds, it was so tall. (normal : In this context, could tall be a
hyponym to skyscraper?)
If you can figure out the last one, let me know. Not sure I did that right...
I am going to make sure that I understand Identity Inclusion correctly and attempt to make an example similar to the Jason Ray one used in class.
He went to class and took his backback, two notebooks and a pencil. - This would be hyponomy because backpack, notebook and pencil are all a form of school gear.
He was bored in class and tore pages from his notebook. - This would be meronomy because pages are a part of a notebook.
Am I correct or does meronomy have to be a relationship more humane like finger and hand?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm3pnWplnHw&feature=related
This song has become more popular as you probably have seen this commercial or the youtube video with the dancing fingers. I think the effect it has (as this effect is often portrayed in music) is obviously the acoustic ability to change the voice/sound of the music. It's addicting in some ways. This commercial is an example of Zeugma because of the repetition and the effect the language has on the audience. It also has descriptive qualities of intesity and quality as well as evoked non-descriptive qualities such as dialect and temperal. You could even stretch it and say the commercial could even have social qualities because of the Kansas City football player.
