This study aimed to identify the types of figurative language used in poems about COVID-19 and explain messages these poems. research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative methods. The data were taken from five on Internet. analyzed Leech’s theory Nurgiyantoro’s meanings language. There eight found poems: metaphor (14.5 %), personification (13.3 simile (16.9%), hyperbole (13.3%), irony...

In this paper I first aim to identify, from a perspective mindful of both analytic and Continental traditions, the central normative issues at stake in the various debates concerning commodification in law. Although there now exists a wealth of thoughtful literature in this area, I often find myself disoriented within the webs of moral criteria used to analyze the increasingly ubiquitous practi...

Understanding language requires more than the use of fixed conventions and more than decoding combinatorial structure. Instead, comprehenders make exquisitely sensitive inferences about what utterances mean given their knowledge of the speaker, language, and context. Building on developments in game theory and probabilistic modeling, we describe the rational speech act (RSA) framework for pragm...

The use of irony and sarcasm in social media allows us to study them at scale for the first time. However, their diversity has made it difficult to construct a high-quality corpus of sarcasm in dialogue. Here, we describe the process of creating a largescale, highly-diverse corpus of online debate forums dialogue, and our novel methods for operationalizing classes of sarcasm in the form of rhet...

It requires a good deal of will power to resist hyperbole in considering the advances that have been achieved in fluorescence microscopy in the last 25 years. Our effort has been to survey the modalities of microscopic fluorescence imaging available to cell biologists and perhaps useful for diagnostic pathologists. The gamut extends from established confocal laser scanning through multiphoton a...

INTRODUCTION A new, more responsive and personalized era in healthcare has long been anticipated.1 And while one might dismiss as hyperbole some of the claims that have been made in relation ‘personalized’, ‘stratified’, or ‘precision’ medicine, it is undeniable that some of the associated technologies and practices (such as stem cell research, genome sequencing, and sample/data banking) do ind...

All communication is inherently multimodal, and understandings of science need to be multidimensional. The interactive whiteboard offers a range of potential benefits to the primary science classroom in terms of relative ease of integration of a number of presentational and ICT functions, which taken together offer new opportunities for fostering multifaceted pedagogic strategies. In this case ...

Since the introduction of PSA testing, treatment options for clinically localised prostate cancer (PCa) have proliferated. Prostate surgery, hormonal therapy and radiation therapy have rapidly grown in technique and delivery. Deferred intervention in the form of active surveillance or watchful waiting has been widely adopted, while focal therapies using various energy techniques are gaining dat...

This study aims to explain the function of language style based on direct and indirect meaning found in novel entitled Cinta di Dalam Gelas by Andrea Hirata. Analysis is chosen find out author's characteristics understand why author tends use certain words or expressions their literary works. The research method used a type descriptive-qualitative with stylistic approach. data collection readin...

Language style is one aspect that beautifies a language. The aims of this study are (1) to describe the forms expression contained in uploads Instagram account @gojekgentho, (2) stylistics or language expressions @gojekgentho. object research uploaded by source data utterances Black and White television program on Trans7 August 2011. This uses library note-taking techniques. results indicate fo...