READING TEXT POPULAR SONG INDONESIA: STUDY SEMIOTIC-HEURISTIC

Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song

We examine the degree of correspondence between musical and linguistic tone sequences in a corpus of 20 Vietnamese popular songs. Our data suggest that text-setting constraints in Vietnamese, as in some other Asian tone languages, are based primarily on the direction of the pitch transition from one syllable/note to the next. Borrowing some musical terminology, we may say that ‘similar motion’ ...

A Song of Prayer: Reading

Among the many developments spawned by the progressive teaching of the Second Vatican Council has been the tremendous growth in critical biblical scholarship. However, along with this advance a somewhat invidious corollary has arisen, namely the practical denigration of all previous methodologies. Specifically, the present boom in critical exegesis has highlighted several inadequacies in the he...

Waltzing Matilda: A Semiotic Reading of Wik

Text Visualization of Song Lyrics

We investigate techniques for visualizing song lyrics. Specifically, we present a design to tightly align musical and linguistic features of a song in a way that preserves the readability of lyrics, while conveying how the melodic, harmonic, and metric lines of the music fit with the text. We demonstrate and evaluate our technique on two examples that have been implemented using Protovis, and p...

identifying the strategies persian efl learners use in reading an expository text in english and examining its relation to reading-proficiency and motivation: a think-aloud study

هدف اصلی از این مطالعه بررسی نوع و میزان استراتژی هایی بود که دانشجویان فارسی زبان رشته ی زبان انگلیسی در حین خواندن یک متن انگلیسی به کار گرفتند. این مطالعه همچنین به بررسی تفاوت های استراتژی های مورد استفاده بین دارندگان سطح بالا و پایین درک مطلب پرداخت. نوع همبستگی بین استراتژی به کار گرفته و درک مطلب از یک سو و استراتژی به کار گرفته و انگیزه از سوی دیگر نیز در این تحقیق مورد آزمایش قرار گرف...