Connotation

Abstract: For preschool education majors, art and crafts are required courses. This course is a hands-on exercise that helps students develop their creative awareness, design thinking, and hands-on skills. At the same time, it provides learners with the teaching thinking mode of art and handicraft theme and the form of online teaching helps learners to construct the thinking mode of online learning. As a new teaching form, online teaching is gradually leading the reform in the field of education. However, the majority of present online teaching is simply a continuation of traditional teaching thought, relying on substantial teaching research rather than utilizing its particular advantages to develop and expand. Also, the connotation depth of traditional teaching may not involve the essential problem of teaching application itself—teaching methods and experience of acquiring knowledge. As a result, determining how to characterize an individual’s ability to acquire knowledge and successfully assessing the level of growth of an individual’s cognitive structure is critical to the development of a new generation of online education. In order to prepare for the next generation of network teaching, this article uses artificial intelligence and wireless networks to teach preschool education manual and aesthetic education practical courses through the Internet. From the perspectives of individuals and groups, two teaching case recommendation experiments are given. The experiment’s end result confirms the practicality and logic of the evaluation model described in this research, which is based on individual cognitive structure.

Abstract: This paper attempts to explain the meaning and connotation of Social Responsibility of Chinese Universities from the functional perspectives of university education, scientific research, social service and cultural inheritance. It presents a combination of three different ways through which a university can achieve social responsibility in modern times, in order to present information regarding Peking University’s performance of social duties. Examples used include the cultivation of students’ sense of social responsibility, localized poverty alleviation in Midu County in Yunnan Province, and advancing cooperation between school and enterprise.

Abstract: In an attempt to demonstrate that a corpus-based analysis can reveal aspects of the evaluative function that native speakers' intuitions most often fail to pick up, we analyze the pragmatic meaning that is associated with the use of the expressions "No wonder" and "I wouldn't be surprised (if/to)" in English and their Spanish equivalents: "No me extrana (que)" and "No me sorprenderia (que) / No me extranaria (que)." Previous studies have pointed out that a given word or expression can take on an association with the positive or the negative, and that this association can be exploited by the users of the language in question to express evaluative meaning covertly, a phenomenon which has been given the name of "semantic prosody" by some authors. Following these scholars, we examine the evaluative function of these five expressions in English and Spanish and argue that even when -- from the strictly semantic point of view -- they do not have an inherent negative connotation, they occur most frequently in the context of other words or phrases that are predominantly negative in their evaluative orientation.

Abstract: We discuss how Hjelmslev's denotation, connotation, and metasign could correspond to Peirce's icon, index, and symbol. Our argument is based on the application of both theories to the programming language problem of confusion as to whether a sign signifies a value, reference, or type.