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Meaning in Interaction An Introduction to Pragmatics

Author: Jenny Thomas

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Pragmatics, Utterance meaning, meaning, speech acts, Conversational implicature, indirectness, approaches to pragmatics, construction of meaning

Thinking Arabic Translation

Author: James Dickins, Sandor Hervey, Ian Higgins

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ARA284

Topics: Arabic Translation, Arabic inter-semiotic translation, Arabic intralingual translation, interlinear translation, Arabic literal translation, Arabic free translation, communicative translation, equivalence translation loss, controlling translation loss, cultural transposition, exoticism, calque, cultural transplantation, cultural borrowing, transliterating names, compensation, denotative meaning, synonym, Hyperonymy-hyponymy, Partially overlapping translation, Connotative meaning, Attitudinal meaning, Associative meaning, Affective meaning, Allusive, reflected meaning, Alliteration, assonance, rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Translating Arabic verse, grammatical level, Grammatical arrangement, Morphological repetition, Pattern repetition, Lexical repetition, Sentence splitting, Textual restructuring, Paragraphing, Metaphor, Dead metaphors, Metaphor downtoning, tonal register, Diglossia, Translating technical texts

Expression and Meaning

Author: John Searle

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: illocutionary acts, Indirect speech acts, fictional discourse, metaphor, literal meaning, Referential, attributive, Speech acts, recent linguistics

Understanding Semantics, 2nd edition

Author: Sebastian Löbner

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: Semantics, ambiguity, predication, verbs, logic, language comparison, cognition, formal semantics, sentence meaning, compositionality, descriptive meaning, connotations, lexemes, lexical ambiguity, compositional ambiguity, contextual ambiguity, deixis, determination, presuppositions, predication, verbs, nouns, adjectives, predicate logic notation, thematic roles, verbs, argument structure diatheses, aspect tense, logical basis, logical relations, sentential logic, meaning relations, synonymy, hyponymy, oppositions, lexical fields, meaning components, semantic features, semantic formulae, semantic primes, Barsalou frames, Japanese numerals

Business Statistics 1

Author: SMS NOUN

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Administration, Social and Management science

Course Code: SMS201

Topics: Business Statistics, Decision Making Process, data collection, summarizing data, Graphical Presentation of Data, arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, Median, Mode, Fractiles, Skewness, Kurtosis, set theory, permutations, combinations, Probability Rules, Events, Bayes' Theorem, Probability Distribution, Binomial Distribution, Poisson Distribution, Hypergeometric Distribution, Normal Distribution, Frequency Distribution, ordered array, Cummulative Relative Frequency Distribution, Graphing Frequency Distribution, histogram, Frequency Polygon, ogive, bar charts, pie chart, weighted mean

Language, meaning and functions

Author: Idemudia Henry

School: University of Benin

Department: General studies

Course Code: GST111

Topics: Language

What Do You Mean, ‘Communication’ How people and organizations communicate

Author: Nicki Stanton

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Education

Course Code: ADE204

Topics: communication, channels of communication, internal communication, upward communication, methods of communication, listening, reading, faster reading, better reading, Using language effectively, Constructing effective sentences, Constructing effective paragraphs, Non-verbal communication

What Does It All Mean A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

Author: Thomas Nagel

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI101

Topics: Mind, Philosophy, free will, right, wrong, justice, death, life

Chemical pathology meaning and purpose

Author: Nzegwu

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health science

Course Code: PAT301

Topics: laboratory test, biochemical profile, dynamic function test, urgent test, routine test, specimen collection, chemica pathology investigation cycle, case history, gaussian distribution

Engineering Mathematics ,Eighth Edition

Author: John Bird

School: Federal University of Technology, Owerri

Department: Engineering

Course Code: ENG307, EN308

Topics: Number, algebra, area, volume, trignometry, graph, complex number, vector, statistics, differential calculus, integral calculus, differential equation, irregular area, Trigonometric waveforms, Cartesian co-ordinates, polar co-ordinates, compund angles, straight line graphs, De Moivre’s theorem, mean, median, mode, standard deviation, probability, binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, normal distribution, Linear correlation, Linear regression, Sampling, estimation theories, Maclaurin’s series, implicit functions, Logarithmic differentiation, Standard integration, Integration by parts, partial fraction, Numerical integration, Mean square value, root mean square value, centroid

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