Linguistic Replacement in the Movies

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

illustration of the widespread linguistic phenomenon of “qualifier replacement for qualified” in pre-islamic arabian odes

reading the arabian poems attributed to pre-islamic era, especially mu’allaqat, one constantly faces a widespread linguistic phenomenon that somehow impedes the process of understanding “the signified” and the meaning of the poems. this linguistic technique is characterized by deletion of the qualified and replacement of one or more qualifiers for it. the phenomenon is today discussed in some r...

Synthetic Movies Synthetic Movies

The introduction of digital video to the personal computer has generated interest in the integration of image sequences into the user interface. Traditional means of representing an image sequence lack the manipulability desired, requiring that an alternative approach be taken. Previous work in the eld of computer graphics and videodisc applications suggest synthetic movies as the solution. A s...

Doctors in the movies.

T he world continues to have a passion for movies. Moviegoers worldwide spent $20.3 billion and purchased 8.6 billion admission tickets to see films in 2003. 2002 was a record breaking year at the UK box office, with 176 million cinema admissions, £755 million in total box office receipts, and 369 films released. In the USA in 2003, there were 1.6 billion cinema admissions, $9.5 billion in box ...

Time in the Movies