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Title: Hyphen : Volume 6, Number 1 Editors: Mallia-Milanes, Victor; Scerri, Louis J.; Zammit Ciantar, Joe; Caruana Carabez, Charles Abstract: Hyphen, Volume 6, No. 1 (1989)

1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/25168 2017-12-30T02:28:46Z 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The 'good' and the 'bad' in art Abstract: 'Didn't we say that a good man who loses his son, or anything else dear to him, will bear the misfortune more equably than other people?' In this question Plato uses 'good' as synonymous with rational. He continues to draw a distinction between the use of reason and the irrational in man and arrives at the conclusion that in the human mind there is a rational and an irrational part. The former is 'good', the latter 'Dad'. 'So the part of the mind which contradicts the measurements cannot be the same as the part which agrees with them . . . But the part that relies on measurement and calculation must be the best part of us, and the part which contradicts them an inferior one. When man is confronted with the complexities of nature and life around him he usually tries to use reason, his intellect, or logic to break it down into human dimensions, to analyse, enumerate, categorize, generalize, and simplify to understand better, to create a certain order in this 'chaos'. What man does not realize, is his inability to understand life completely and that this apparent chaos is governed by an absolute or perfect balance hardly'tangible for us mortals. Often enough this search for an understanding of this perfect balance, which he consciously feels, results in over-simplification with attendant bewilderment, utter confusion, and total incomprehension.

1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/25140 2017-12-30T02:28:41Z 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Psycholinguistic aspects of language Abstract: As a system of human knowledge language can be studied from overt behaviour which is the result of underlying knowledge and abilities man has in order to use language effectively. Psycholinguistics is interested in these underlying knowledge and abilities, and makes use of psychology and linguistics in order to study the mental processes underlying the acquisition and use of language. Linguistics is concerned with the formal description of the structure of language (an essential segment of human knowledge that includes sounds and meanings, and the relevant grammar that relates sounds and meanings). Psychology is then concerned with how such systems are acquired in childhood (language acquisition) and how these acquired systems function in daily communication (language use that involves production and understanding of sentences). The psycholinguist, therefore, tries to go beyond mere description of language behaviour: he tries to formulate underlying structures and processes that account for the order found in observed behaviour. These formulations are called linguistic postulates.

1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/25139 2017-12-30T02:28:45Z 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Arabic civilization Abstract: The brilliant civilization that blossomed in the wake of the all-conquering Arab armies left an indelible mark on countries stretching from Spain to India. Through the medium of the Arabic language, Muslim, Jew, and Christian were united in a common culture, which appears all the more remarkable when it is compared to the general darkness that had eclipsed most of Europe following the division of the Roman Empire.

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