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The Power of Words
Non-fiction by Geraldine Hingl
The Power of Words
Presenter will share unit starting with readings in which writers and leaders describe the importance of literacy despite racism, peer pressure, and poverty. Students engage in lessons exploring their struggles, making comparisons to their own literary histories, and writing a thematic essay on the Power of Words. Presentation includes interactive activity and sharing of high school and FYW students\u27 work
The Power of Words: Why Communication fosters Cooperation and Efficiency
We present a game-theoretical model that accounts for abundant experimental evidence from games with non-binding communication (‘cheap talk’). It is based on two key ideas: People are conditionally averse to break norms of honesty and fairness (i.e., the emotional cost of breaking a norm is low if few people comply), and heterogeneous with regard to their concern for norms. The model explains (a) why cooperation in social dilemmas rises if players can previously announce their intended play, (b) why details of the communication protocol like the number of message senders and the order in which players communicate affect cooperation, (c) why players in sender-receiver games tend to transmit more information than a standard analysis would predict, and (d) why senders of false messages are often sanctioned if punishment is available.Communication; Cooperation; Fairness; Heterogeneity; Honesty; Reciprocity; Social Norms
The Zipf law for random texts with unequal probabilities of occurrence of letters and the Pascal pyramid
We model the generation of words with independent unequal probabilities of
occurrence of letters. We prove that the probability of occurrence of
words of rank has a power asymptotics. As distinct from the paper published
earlier by B. Conrad and M. Mitzenmacher, we give a brief proof by elementary
methods and obtain an explicit formula for the exponent of the power law.Comment: 4 page
From Pronoun to Identity: Tracing the History of the Word Otaku
Words are vessels of power; the power to convey meaning. Words can give shape to the identity of a group, and the same word can stereotype one for generations. This research paper is about one such word – ‘Otaku’. The aim of this research paper is to trace the history of the term ‘otaku’, and understand how it evolved from a second person
pronoun to a term that identifies an entire subcultur
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