This article revisits earlier proposals that language learning is, in essence, the learning of formulaic sequences and their interpretations; that this occurs at all levels of granularity from large to small; and that the language system emerges from the statistical abstraction of patterns latent within and across form and function in language usage. It considers recent research in individual d...

â  â  love and affection from jibran's point of view â  â  â  sadegh fathi dehkordi * â  â  abstract â  from the view point of jibran khalil jibran, affection is the law of life and the base of all things in the world. affection is one of the manifestations of god and it is a light extracted from other lights. real affection is endless .the human being cannot learn affection because it is ...

The fact that formulaic expressions are consistently preserved in left hemisphere damagehas had little influence on models of language. Evidence from disordered speech, linguisticanalyses, and first and second language learning reveals that formulaic and novel expressionspattern differently. The “formuleme” (canonical form) is recognizable by native speakers ashaving stereotyped...

The current pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study attempts, firstly, to probe the effects of teaching formulaic sequences (FSs) on the second or foreign language (L2)  learners' oral proficiency improvement and secondly, to examine whether teaching FSs through different resources (i.e. animation vs. text-based readings) have any differentially influential effects in augmenting L2  l...

stylistics is one of the branches of literary criticism benefiting from linguistics and rhetoric to analyze the text and emphasizes on three essential elements namely text, writer and addressee in literary and critical examination of the work. an’ã¢m (the cattles) surah is a the long surah of koran indicating mainly three columns of islamic ideology and all the vocabulary and artistic images ...

in order to determine iron and lead content of seminal plasma in water buffalo and to study their associations with the semen characteristics, 54 semen samples were collected from 10 buffalo bulls. the semen characteristics were evaluated; its iron and lead content were estimated by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. the iron and lead content of the seminal plasma (mean ± sem) was recorded as...

microspore culture was applied to induce embryogenesis in roses (rosa hybrida) cv. hav1. important factors affecting viability of isolated microspores and formation of multi-cellular structures including isolation media (nln, ab, b) and induction media were studied. the most responsive developmental stage of microspores (late unicellular) was determined using dapi staining. the least infection ...