Abstract:Colonialism is a policy in which a strong nation enters a weak territory and starts exploiting the inhabitants of that land for their economic interests. The colonizers dominate the colonized through violence to bring them into their subjection. Some liberal writers have written about colonialism and its impacts on the colonized slaves. Chinua Achebe has presented the realistic picture of Africa when it was colonized by the Britishers. His novel, "Things Fall Apart" presents the pre-colonial and colonial state… Show more
“…Other scholars define semantics with different or similar perspectives. For example, Saeed (1997) opines that "semantics is the study of meaning communicated through language." According to Lobner (2002), "semantics is the part of linguistics that is concerned with meaning."…”
cited in Savas L. T. (1994:72) posits that "syntactic theories in linguistics are certainly semantically motivated. Otherwise they would have no occasion to assign different structures to a single sentence (to a
“…Other scholars define semantics with different or similar perspectives. For example, Saeed (1997) opines that "semantics is the study of meaning communicated through language." According to Lobner (2002), "semantics is the part of linguistics that is concerned with meaning."…”
cited in Savas L. T. (1994:72) posits that "syntactic theories in linguistics are certainly semantically motivated. Otherwise they would have no occasion to assign different structures to a single sentence (to a
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