English language faculty-i course paper in lexicology

III. Chapter three: Text analysis involving emotive words


South Florida high school students gathered in a Miami federal courtroom and virtually in classrooms for an interactive program on the Constitution and civil discourse.

More than 550 students at South Florida high schools engaged in a day of candid conversations with federal judges and attorneys about the Constitution, civil discourse, and solid decision-making skills in the law and in teens’ lives. The event was part of a monthlong national celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.

More than 40 judges and lawyers facilitated a highly interactive program, Civil Discourse and the Constitution: Candid Conversations, conducted virtually in classrooms and in-person in a Miami courtroom on Sept. 22. The program was created by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and organized by Federal Bar Association (FBA) members.

“These programs put a human face on the justice system for students who have little or no real-life exposure to the people who make it work,” said Judge Beth Bloom, of the Southern District of Florida, who hosted a group in her Miami courtroom. “By teaching and modeling civility and solid decision-making, judges and lawyers can give students a real-life experience of the importance of these skills.”

During sessions throughout the day, students in the Miami metropolitan area and in West Palm Beach learned about the importance of civility when talking through controversial issues in the law and in life.

Judges and volunteer FBA attorneys from the 11th Circuit and other regions engaged with students during the all-day civics event. The courts and local chapters of the FBA expect to conduct more conversations with young people across the nation as members take the program from the conference to their communities.

“If our Constitution and the legal system are to remain strong and resilient, we need to share our knowledge and appreciation of the courts with the next generation of judges, jurors, lawyers, legal journalists, and engaged citizens,” said W. West Allen, the current FBA president who has continued the association’s tradition of assisting federal courts with educational outreach.

FBA chapters in Florida-Southern have been active for the past six years in the federal courts’ national civil discourse and decision-making initiative. For this event, FBA chapters recruited schools, oriented teachers, and co-facilitated the student sessions with judges.

“This event is a variation on Civil Discourse and Difficult Decisions, which federal courts have conducted in the Eleventh Circuit and nationally since 2016,” said Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, the Southern District of Florida. “Judges and lawyers have joined forces to instill in students the vital civil discourse and decision-making skills that will serve them well in the law and in life.”

The Florida event, which was part of the FBA’s national conference in Miami, was one of many federal courts’ Constitution Day-related programs scheduled across the country throughout September. Programs included naturalization ceremonies at baseball games, on college campuses, and at community landmarks. The events commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787.

Related Topics: Events and Ceremonies, Public Education

Judiciary News

1. Define the general choice of the vocabulary in connection with the style of the text and its language (formal/informal, literary, bookish, colloquial, dialogue, monologue, etc.).

This is a newspaper article taken from Judiciary News magazine. The text is written in newspaper style. The language of the text includes formal and literary bookish variants of words. Also informative speech type is used. At the introduction part of a text we meet such terms as “candid conversation", "federal judges", "law”, "attorneys" (juridical terms) which belong to literary bookish vocabulary. The formal language of a text we may point out the political terminology too as: candid, law, a federal judge, attorneys
Also we meet the words of neutral vocabulary as “school, students, to live” and so on.
Besides that, in dialogue we meet colloquial type of speech as: Judges and volunteer FBA attorneys from the 11th Circuit and other regions engaged with students during the all-day civics event.

2. Write out 5 longest words from the text. Analyse their morphological structure (root, non-root, free, bound, derivational and inflectional types of morphemes). Provide examples of simple, derived, compound and compound-derived stems, if any.

1. Importance-this is a derivative word formed with the help of affixation. -ance free morpheme.
2. Educational -- educate is root and free morpheme, -al is bound.
3. Knowledge-- this is a derivative word formed with the help of affixation, -ledge is noun morpheme.
4. Celebration-- this is a derivative word formed with the help of affixation. -ion is noun morpheme.
5. Courtroom-- this is a derivative word formed with the help of composition. court+room.

3. Write out words formed by affixation, and comment on the types of affixes used (suffix, prefix, productive or non-productive, native, borrowed, etc).

teachers is a derivative word, -er is a lexical morpheme, it is native morpheme, productive morpheme, it is word which shows the action, to teach-teacher is a person who teach.

4. Find conversion in the text. Explain the difference in the meanings of converted member. Give your own versions of converted pairs of used words.

to remain strong---is conversation from the adjective "strong", here the action of the result of adjective is used in the form of infinitive.

assisting -- to give support or help. to make it easier for someone to do something or for something to happen.

5. Write out compound words and define their motivation degree.

decision-making--the action or process of making important decisions

real-life --life as it is lived in reality

6. Find shortenings, if there are any, comment of the type and meaning.

FBA---Federal Bar Association. The Constitutional Law themed issue of The Federal Lawyer is now available.
U.S. ---United States

7. Find words formed by minor types of word-formation, such as blending, back-formation, sound and stress interchange, etc.

celebration(noun)--celebrate(verb)
hosted(verb)--host(noun)

8. Write out three polysemantic words from the text ( a noun, a verb and an adjective), give their semantic structure and explain in which of their lexico-semantic variants they are used in the text.

judge- is a polysemantic word used in the text as a noun in the meaning of a public officer appointed to decide cases in a law court. The other meaning is an opinion or conclusion about. The third meaning of this word give a verdict on someone in a law court.

live-- is a polysemantic word used in the text as a verb in the meaning make one's home in a particular place or with a particular person. The second meaning alive. The third meaning live broadcast.

well-- is a polysemantic word used in the text as a adverb in the meaning in a satisfactory way. The second meaning in good health. The third meaning sensible.

9. Find cases of metaphoric or metonymic transference of words, analyse the result of the semantic change (generalisation, specialisation, pejoration or amelioration).

volunteer FBA attorneys -- is metaphor which meaning willing people.

Candid Conversations--- is metaphor which meaning means well-themed topis.

10. Write out synonyms from the text and indicate the difference between them. Analyse them according to their classes (ideographic or stylistic synonyms; contextual synonyms, synonymic dominant). Check if there are word families or clusters in the given text.

conversation-talking, stylistic synonyms,

local-area, ideographic synonyms.
people-citizen, stylistic synonyms

11. Write out antonyms from the text, make their classification (contraries, contradictories, root and derivational antonyms).

12. Write out homonyms from the text, make their classification (homophones, homographs, grammatical and lexico-grammatical homonyms, paronyms, etc.).

Ping-pong-paronym, full-fool-homophones