BLAKE: William Blake was born in Soho, London, where he spent most of his life. Blake was first educated at home by his mother. From his early years, Blake had experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks; he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. After studies at the Royal Academy School, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines....
POPE: Pope was born 21 May, 1688, in London. His father was a cloth merchant living in the City; both his parents were Catholic. It was a period of intense anti-Catholic sentiment in England, and at some point in Alexander's childhood, the Pope family was forced to relocate to be in compliance with a statute forbidding Catholics from living within ten miles of London or Westminster. Pope's early education was affected by his Catholicism: Catholic schools, although illegal, were allowed to survive...
London – William Blake
Summary: The speaker wanders through the streets of London and comments on his observations. He sees despair in the faces of the people he meets and hears fear and repression in their voices. The woeful cry of the chimney-sweeper stands as a chastisement to the Church, and the blood of a soldier stains the outer walls of the monarch’s residence. The nighttime holds nothing more promising: the cursing of prostitutes corrupts the newborn infant and sullies the “Marriage...
Infant Joy – William Blake
Summary: Another simple song celebrating happiness, this poem focuses on the gift of life in a newborn baby. Only two days old, the baby is asked, presumably by its mother, what name it wants. The baby names itself Joy, for that is all it knows. The mother then happily blesses the baby Joy, with the hope that joy will indeed be its lot in life.
Metric: This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme, a contrast to...
"The Chimney Sweeper" – William Blake
Summary: The speaker of this poem is a small boy who was sold into the chimney-sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts the story of a fellow chimney sweeper, Tom Dacre, who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. The speaker comforts Tom, who falls asleep and has a dream or vision of several chimney sweepers all locked in black coffins. An angel arrives with a special key that opens the locks on the coffins...
"The Little Black Boy"- William Blake
Summary: A black child tells the story of how he came to know his own identity and to know God. The boy, who was born in “the southern wild” of Africa, first explains that though his skin is black his soul is as white as that of an English child. He relates how his loving mother taught him about God who lives in the East, who gives light and life to all creation and comfort and joy to men. “We are put on earth,” his mother says, to learn to accept God’s...
1. Linguistics Its primary goal is to describe languages as they are actually spoken, rather than prescribe how they ought to be spoken. scientific approach that involves a critical and inquiring attitude and refusal to accept uncritically ideas or ways of thinking about language. Linguistics is considered as a humanities and science subject. Links to humanities include to language history and philosophy, and links to social sciences include to sociology, psychology or even biology.
2. Main branches
Lexicon is much more structured than dictionaries, it has links between phonological forms and meanings. It contains all signs whose meaning is not predictable, whether they are single morphemes, words or combinations of words (it includes Words, Root Morphemes, Derived stems, Irregular inflected forms, Morphologically complex words, Idioms)(Regular Inflected forms are not included, their meanings are predictable given English morphology)
1. Openness: Lexicon is not fixed; it changes rapidly, due...
LA COMUNICACIÓN
"es el proceso por el cual, unos seres, unas personas, emisor y receptor(-es) asignan significados a unos hechos producidos y, entre ellos, muy especialmente al comportamiento de los otros seres o personas".
2. NOCIÓN Y TIPOS DE SEÑALES: ÍNDICE, ICONO Y SÍMBOLO
Señal: cualquier procedimiento que sirve para transmitir información, para comunicar. ( "un objeto que informa de otro objeto").
Clasificaciones básicas de tipos de señales: 1- Se centra en el canal de transmisión...