Title of Document: MEMORABLE MOMENTS: A PHILOSOPHY OF POETRY Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro, Ph.D., 2006 Directed By: Professor Jerrold Levinson Department of Philosophy In my dissertation I give a philosophical account of poetry from an analytic perspective—one that is also informed by studies in linguistic communication (pragmatics) and cognitive psychology, and that takes into account the many v...

The aim of this study was to determine the optimal temperature and baking time to obtain a Madeira wine considered typical by an expert panel. For this purpose simultaneous descriptive analyses of typical Madeira wines were performed, and seven descriptors were selected: "dried fruit", "nutty", "musty", "baked", "oak", "mushroom", and "brown sugar". Up to 10 odor-active zones were the most freq...

archaism is one of the most important tools for defamiliarisation of speech and it causes the wordto go beyond the reach of the common people and be closer to poetry. the most prominent function of defamiliarisation is the poetic creativity that a part of it originates from the archaism. ahmad shamloo who is among the innovator and effective poets of our time, has largely benefited from the arc...

Large-scale comparisons between the poetry of Tang and Song dynasties shed light on how words and expressions were used and shared among the poets. That some words were used only in the Tang poetry and some only in the Song poetry could lead to interesting research in linguistics. That the most frequent colors are different in the Tang and Song poetry provides a trace of the changing social cir...

the palm wine trade is an important economic activity for many tropical rural areas worldwide. in west africa, palm wine holds high sociocultural and traditional values. wine tappers often climb very tall trees with rudimentary equipment to harvest palm sap and risk severe injuries in the event of a fall. furthermore, the wine quickly ferments beyond the desired taste and alcohol content, reduc...

Poetry is one of the seven arts and critics have always attended to its aesthetic features. The greatest modern scientific achievement of literature has been the discovery of the therapeutic quality of poetry. Poetry therapy as a new treatment for patients suffering from depression began in the US where it produced positive results. In this article, the authors investigate poetry in a different...

port wine stains are benign but cosmetically devasting congenital angiomas. the argon laser is a therapeutic device newly applied to this condition. our program was begun 6 years ago. from the beginning, the study was conceived as a clinical investigation of both the port wine stain and its argon laser therapy. a total of 218 patients with port wine stains have been studied and many aspects of ...

We present a medical ontology that is used for registering health problems at intensive care units in hospitals. Because of its flexible architecture it is necessary to be able to determine equivalence and subsumption automatically. These two tasks require two types of knowledge to be encoded: definitional knowledge and template knowledge. We discuss how both kinds of knowledge can be made expl...

The hierarchy of classical Chinese poetry has been broadly acknowledged by a number of studies in Chinese literature. However, quantitative investigations about the evolution of classical Chinese poetry are limited. The primary goal of this study is to provide quantitative evidence of the evolutionary linkages, with emphasis on word usage, among different period genres for classical Chinese poe...