This article aims at showing how the philosopher G. Anders develops his ontology of technology as described in Outdatedness Mankind vol. I and II. argue that Anders’ three crises are a fundamental interpretative key for understanding philosophy well negative anthropology which should be inscribed within idiosyncratic approach critical theory technology. The is structured following...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent similarities and differences among one-word adverbials (surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly) in terms meaning, register collocational constraints. These are considered roughly synonymous one another. But we should be skeptical about their full synonymy, though dictionary meanings show that these words can substitutable with In order demo...

The research is devoted to the contrastive corpus analysis of semantic prosody collocations with PANDEMIC in broadsheet ‘The Guardian’ and tabloid Mirror’. corpora have been processed help Sketch Engine analysed. study mostly concentrates on verbs as subject object most representative media texts. dictionary definition interprets it a word negative prosody. discourse data obtained proves that c...

There appear to be multifunctional artefacts of a type such that none their functions can attributed only some proper part the artefact. I use two examples allegedly this kind in what follows, one due Lynne Rudder Baker (aspirin) and another my own (a spork). The are meant make same point. discuss her aspirin example, since its discussion has entered literature, but without being dealt with sat...

This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials Ghana. In all, total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 The Ghanaian Times Daily Graphic, published 2016 2017 news years, for compilation specialised corpus study. From collocation tab AntConc software, sixty-seven Verb-Noun Coll...

This study aims to explore how corpus-based approaches can be used address the distinctions of English near-synonyms effectively. Especially, it collected source data from British National Corpus (BNC) and adopted Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool compare near synonymous pair damage destroy commonly misused by Chinese-speaking learners in terms frequencies, genre distribution, colligatio...

The current paper is aimed at corpus-based differentiation of near-synonymous lexemes with the meaning ‘to destroy’. research implies a series consecutive steps: to discuss synonymy-related problems in modern linguistics; compile list destroy’ by means Corpus Contemporary American English (COCA); analyze and compare definitions chosen verbs Merriam-Webster Dictionary (MWD); generate lists right...

The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of decision-making (selecting and matching) tasks and production (creation of sentences and completion of sentences) tasks on the collocational knowledge of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, sixty EFL learners were divided into two experimental (decision-making and production) groups. To determine the effects of the tasks, ...

Abstract. Bed-material sediment particle size data, particularly the median (D50), are critical for understanding and modeling riverine transport. However, observations primarily available at individual sites. Large-scale assessment of transport limited by lack continuous regional maps bed-material size. We hence present a map D50 over contiguous US in vector format that corresponds to approxim...

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