KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

  Symptoms  Herbert Read  In the beginning of the essay, the writer reads an advertisement. The advertisement was about the symptoms of Liver-pill disease. When he reads he thinks that he is affected by the liver pill disease. One day the writer visits to the British Museum ( Library ). At that time he was suffering from Hay Fever. He took the book named as Pharmacology and started to read the symptoms of Hay Fever , then he reads about the symptoms of Typhoid , turns up the pages and comes across another disease named St. Vitus Dance as he was reading about these diseases he thought that he was affected by all these diseases. Then the writer decides to read the book in alphabetical order. He starts reading from: A – A gue, B – B right’s disease, C – C holera, D - D iphtheria H – H ousemaid’s Knee – The writer is not affected Z – Z ymosis (Communicable Disease from birth) He came to a conclusion that he was affected by all those disease except House...

LINGUISTIC TERMS 💧  LANGUAGE      According to Noam Chomsky, Language is a set of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements. 💧 SE MANTICS      Semantics is the study of meaning of word, phrase and sentences. The term semantics comes from a Greek word “Sema” which means “Sign”. The term “Semains” means “Signal or Signify”. Semantics is the study of meaning in a language. Only with regard to semantics through which linguistical analysis the meaning is analyzed. 💧PRAGMATICS      While semantics attempts to relate meaning to logic and truth, Pragmatics attempts to relate meaning to context of utterance and it views language as action which is performed by speakers. 💧SYNTAX      The word syntax consist of two elements i.e. ‘Syn’ which means ‘together’ and ‘tax’ which means ‘put in order’. Hence syntax means “putting things together in an orderly manner”. 💧LINGUISTICS     ...