... transportation, poetry, war, love". In contrast, concrete language "identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter" ("Literary Terms", n.d.). By definition, the things that are being referred to using abstract language would not have a substitute in the concrete language. For example, "education" is an abstract concept - there are no ... effective as the entire idea is captured and crystallized in just one word or phrase. Nida (1992) calls technical language "a kind of cognitive shorthand, in which sema...

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... to make his own decisions. When an individual is being responsible he discovers a meaning to life outside of his own psyche and discovers it in the world around him. Frankl terms this "the ! self-transcendence of human existence." "The more one forgets himself-by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love-the more human he is and ... remained unspoken. Here was eyewitness te! stimony which has certainly molded the portrait of Stalin for posterity. A man with an acute sense of danger, according to Djilas, Tito came to terms with Stalin's successors. Towards the end of h...

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... . Suggest some of your own ideas on the CourseRoom Discussion Space. 4. When we look at a 'story of sickness,' it could be useful to add some 'medical' terms to the kit of tools we use for literary analysis. For example, there is a such a thing as 'sick roles'. These are roles the patient is supposed to play in order to be considered a good or ... ...

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