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Connotation
About: Connotation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2096 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8265 citations.
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01 Apr 1992
TL;DR: Findings were that a central meaning of an L2 word exists and is shared by the L2 learners with the same cultural background, and between the L1 learner and the native speaker there exists an overlapping conceptual relationship in the central mean of a culturally loaded word.
Abstract: The study investigated the role of a second language (L2) learner's prior cultural knowledge in target language lexical meaning-making. Comparison focuses on what important similarities in L2 lexical meaning-making of culturally loaded words appear among learners with the same ethnic background, and what important lexical meaning differences exist across cultures. Subjects were three Chinese learners of English as a Second Language and one Canadian native English speaker. Data were collected through a first-impression talk, open word-association questionnaire, and followup interviews. Information.from three responses (Canadian speaker's response to an English word, Chinese learners' response to the English word in English, and Chinese learners' response to the English word in Chinese) and the word's meanings (conceptual, connotative, synonyms, antonyms, lexical cultural categories, specific knowledge in lexical meanings, and cross-linguistic factors) in both English and Chinese were examined. Findings were that a central meaning of an L2 word exists and is shared by the L2 learners with the same cultural background. Between the L2 learner and the native speaker there exists an overlapping conceptual relationship in the central meaning of a culturally loaded word, with striking individual differences in connotation. Pedagogical implications are seen. (MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 1-") N 0 O A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF PRIOR CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE IN ENGLISH-SECOND-LANGUAGE LEXICAL MEANING-MAKING
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The authors elaborates the connotation of campus culture,expounds the position and functions of university library and points out some effective approaches for giving play to the superiorities of library to promote campus culture.
Abstract: This paper elaborates the connotation of campus culture,expounds the position and functions of university library in the construction of campus culture,and points out some effective approaches for giving play to the superiorities of university library to promote the construction of campus culture
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In the evaluation and management process, the boundary between the professional status and the "honour title" is quite unclear as discussed by the authors and an emphasis on academic standard and neglect on teacher's ethics standard in its evaluation leads to its flaw in significance.
Abstract: The super-teacher system has got in plight when it was endowed with new connotation by the social history.In the evaluation and management process,the boundary between the "professional status" and the "honour title" is quite unclear.An emphasis on academic standard and neglect on teacher's ethics standard in its evaluation leads to its flaw in significance.The weakening of the motivation and guidance function also causes the value mismatch.What's more,the super-teacher system should adapt to the new educational conditions and make innovation in its development function.
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TL;DR: In this article, the connotation and nature of the adoption of technological innovations by enterprises were defined preliminarily from a dynamic perspective, and the characteristics of such an adoption in different industries were discussed with experts' empirical studies.
Abstract: Progress is being made in the study on the adoption of technological innovations in foreign countries.In those studies the connotation and nature of the adoption of technological innovations by enterprises were defined preliminarily from a dynamic perspective.And the characteristics of such an adoption in different industries were discussed with experts' empirical studies,especially the influencing factors on the speed,time,type and actuality of enterprises' adoption of technological innovations were explored from the angle of an interaction between enterprises,society,market and technology.The earlier works also described how the enterprises select/make decisions in adoption process,and pointed out the possibility of either the sequentially linear and orderly adoption or the complicated and disordered adoption.
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19 Nov 2017
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study of da'wah messages in this movie, both verbal and non-verbal, is presented. But the movie contains strong messages of da’wah, yet it also has the contrary message of negative stigma of non-Muslim about hijab and polygamy.
Abstract: Movie is one of the most effective tools for da’wah in present time and also in future. Regardless of its drawbacks and advantages, it is the mass media that plays important role in influencing and shaping public opinion. It molds public opinion through its contents.Among the most phenomenal movies is ’99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa’. This movie contains strong messages of da’wah, yet it also has the contrary. This study aims to investigate da’wah messages in this movie, both verbal and non-verbal. Two parts of this movie are analyzed. This study is a qualitative study. It employs Roland Barthes semiotics theory to analyze the denotation, connotation and myth in the movie.Data are collected through documentation and library research. Results show that this movie presents values and messages of da’wah Islam. The messages delivered include aqidah, shariah, and akhlaq. It also conveys messages answering contemporary issues in da’wah such as negative stigma of non-Muslim about hijab and polygamy. On the other hand, the movie also has a non-verbal message that appears contradictory to da’wah messages, camel hump hijabstyle.
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