Essays about: "associative meaning"

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  1. 1. All is well : An analysis of positivity through adjectives in two contemporary New Age self-help books

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Sonja Diar Fares; [2018]
    Keywords : adjectives; connotation; denotation; semantic prosody; associative meaning; self-help; New Age language; positivity; positive psychology; Abraham Hicks; Eckart Tolle; Adjektiv; semantik; konnotation; denotation; New Age språk; själv-hjälp; personlig utveckling; positiv psykologi;

    Abstract : Self-help counselling is an important industry that not only influences its immediate users’ behavior but also society and social behaviors more generally. Since New Ageis a main branch of self-help, and since positivity is a dominant concept in (New Age) self-help discourse, it is worth analyzing how positivity might be achieved in terms of language use. READ MORE