You can get a good idea of the terminology an employer is likely looking for
by studying the language in the job description.
What we would like to learn
by studying language is how the human brain learns something that is that complicated without any direct evidence.
Not exact matches
According to a
study by Albert Mehrabian — one that is widely cited to this day — our body
language conveys 55 percent of the emotion we feel, the voice 38 percent, and the things we say just 7 percent.
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By day he studied the language and soaked in the Romanesque architecture; by night, he explored the town's wine bars and got to know the local Spanish juic
By day he
studied the
language and soaked in the Romanesque architecture;
by night, he explored the town's wine bars and got to know the local Spanish juic
by night, he explored the town's wine bars and got to know the local Spanish juice.
In a 1974
study conducted
by Word, Zanna and Cooper, job interviewers were asked to follow very specific types of body
language over the course of several interviews.
Swahili is influenced
by the confluence of what the late African
studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu
languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.
The scholarship is awarded to the applicant showing the greatest merit, as demonstrated
by academic achievement in previous
studies, Asian
language capability, leadership and / or community service achievements, and potential for future success in international business.
In The Heart of the Matter, a 2013 report sponsored
by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a reader is confronted with
language like this: «Among other benefits [
studying the humanities] strengthens clarity of written and oral expression, critical and analytic reasoning, and the creativity to think outside the box.»
By making
language use its central object of
study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself as combating.
The project has two subjects, Koko and Michael, who have learned to use American Sign
Language (Ameslan), to understand spoken English, and to read printed words.10 Koko's instruction, begun in 1973, is the longest ongoing
language study of an ape, and the only one with continuous instruction
by the same teacher.
The fragment, written in Coptic, a
language used
by Egyptian Christians, says in part, «Jesus said to them, «My wife...» Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King announced the findings of the 1 1/2 -
by 3 - inch honey - colored fragment on Tuesday in Rome at the International Association for Coptic
Studies.
Studies in
language, mathematics, science, art, history, and philosophy are not made liberal merely
by recognizing and calling attention to the creative factors in these disciplines and in the human activities with which they deal.
Ken Olson, «Eusebius of Caesarea Tradition and Innovations», Center for Hellenic
Studies, distributed
by Harvard University Press (2013), wrote «Both the
language and the content have close parallels in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who is the first author to show any knowledge of the text.
Start with the
studies done
by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal
studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own
languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?
Dong King - en, a Chinaman in picturesque, flowing native garb, urges the necessity of Christianity's making itself more indigenous to China
by making its converts
study their own
language and literature.
Theologians influenced
by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the
study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «
language games,» each with its own set of rules.
In particular, I believe that secular
studies can benefit from the framework of values and the wisdom about man's ultimate commitments generated over the centuries in the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary
language by critical theological inquiry.
Because it is education that must proceed indirectly
by way of the examination of texts and practices whose
study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary
languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant
languages and cultures.
they all say same thing pretty much... got to remember we can not fully trust 100 percent all translations... which is why one needs to
study properly
by using Koine Greek (for NT) dictionaries and concordances... and Hebrew dictionaries for OT... when one realizes how the versions are trnalated they will see this... also... thuis is true of ANY piece of literature... have you ever
studied and spoken another r
language?
Panikkar's theology is highly marked
by his biography which laid the encounter of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense
study of
languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as living everyday life in many contexts.
If her training eventually pulls her back into her professional role so that she is able to
study her reactions, she may notice that she has been led to picture the story of humankind as being played out solely
by males: inventing
language, passing it on to the next generation of sons, inventing pottery for use as containers, fashioning needles in order to make better clothing.
It is a thoughtful book in which Smith reflects on the problems raised
by the
study of the religious thought and practices of the people of Asia, problems of historical method, of literary criticism, of
language, of social organization, and of the values and standards
by which men guide their lives.
Around the turn of the century, anthropologists realized that they could tell a great deal about a culture
by studying its use of
language.
We can also bring Catholic culture back into the curriculum
by studying the English
language itself.
however i will add that because the latin speaking world was controled
by laws of
language usage, i don; t know if you have ever
studied latin but it has more laws then any other spoken tongue i have ever heard of.
He and his disciples were hopeful that
by studying the development of
languages they could arrive at the essence of religion «scientifically.»
In response to the questions of the learners, the teacher may join in the search
by sharing the biblical onlook, which may need to be established
by careful Bible
study, including attention to the Bible's use of
language.
So while it's crazy to me that even after 2 years of
studying Chinese full time, I had still never learned the word router, I was still encouraged to know that I could get
by with my current
language level and a dictionary.
In addition, many of the interviews were conducted directly from the script
by Spanish
language interpreters who were unaware of the nature or status of the
study; their results were not different from those of the investigators.
Our dual -
language program of both Mandarin and Spanish from first through fourth grades, followed
by intensive
study of Spanish from fifth through eighth grades, provides both an intellectual boost as well as a window into the cultural practices of the wider world — in Nashville and beyond.
Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of
language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made
by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a
study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.
According to a
study conducted
by Stanford University researchers and published in Psychological Science in 2013, toddlers who are exposed to more words at a young age have a larger vocabulary and better
language proficiency later on.
Speaking in turns on a theme: «English
Studies in Non-Native Environments; Reflections and Projections» at the 32nd Annual National Conference of the English Scholars» Association of Nigeria (ESAN), on Wednesday, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife, a Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Professor Akin Odebunmi, charged government and stakeholders to fine tune the acquisition of English
language by introducing non-native English in nation's education curricula.
Orwell's
study of how
language is used to lie and confuse, to make us weak and obedient, is a far more radical prospect, and one that is therefore avoided at all costs
by the political and media class.
The
study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats
by grade band, students» primary
language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.
Results from a series of
studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced
by everything from playing music and learning a new
language to aging,
language disorders and hearing loss.
Given that the
language used
by parents is so intrinsically linked with child
language development, the results of the
study suggest that prolonged exposure to background TV has a negative influence.
In the
study, researchers looked at 80 English -
language educational materials that were designed to be printed and read
by patients in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
You can find information about a
language by collecting a corpus of data — for instance, the Chinese linguist
studying my
language could ask me various questions about it and collect the answers.
The research team led
by Ji - Young Choi, an assistant professor of Human Development and Family
Studies, found dual -
language learners (DLLs) had significant growth, eventually outperforming students who only spoke English, once DLLs gained basic English proficiency.
And you can investigate a
language by studying what goes on in the brain as people learn or use
language.
Each was spoken
by relatively few people, and as cultures were wiped out
by disease and violence, many
languages vanished before they could be
studied.
The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second
language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new
study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Infants raised in homes where they hear a single
language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age - matched peers exposed to little variation in accent, according to a recent
study by a University at Buffalo expert in
language development.
«Jedek is not a
language spoken
by an unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously
studied by anthropologists.
If you're interested in
studying abroad, your decision about where to go could be influenced
by the desire to experience a particular
language, culture, or location.
The
study builds on earlier work
by Kuhl's team, which found that babies from English - speaking households could learn Mandarin from live tutors, but not from video or audio recordings of Mandarin and from other work at I - LABS establishing the importance of infant eye gaze for
language learning.
«In young bilingual children, two
languages develop simultaneously but independently:
Study also shows Spanish is vulnerable to being taken over
by English, but English is not vulnerable to being taken over
by Spanish.»
Yoshua Bengio is one of the Canadian wizzes who revived the longtime
study of neural networks
by creating sophisticated versions of this brain - inspired technology now used for image recognition,
language understanding and playing championship go.