LANGUAGE
To provide further understanding when
talking about hypertext, I have elaborated the following list of vocabulary,
analysing some words or expressions which are written in different levels of
language that Adrienne Eisen has used in each text from ‘The Interview’, in
order to contextualize them.
Education
Studied for a summer at The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
‘Carrel’: A
partially partitioned nook in or near the stacks in a library, used for private
study.
It can be said that this text presents a
standard register.
Received a Ford Foundation grant for advanced
research.
Politicization
comes from the Word ‘Politicize’.
Getting
trashed is a colloquial expression that means ‘to get drunk’.
‘Shrink’
is a familiar word which means ‘psychiatrist’.
‘Prozac’
is an antidepressant medicine.
‘Crapping’
can be said to be a vulgar expression of referring to defecate.
‘Make it
through the weekend’ is referred to ‘spend the weekend’ in the sense of
‘surviving’.
‘Tax
records’ (financial).
‘To get dizzy’: Having a whirling
sensation (colloquial way).
‘I started drooling’: I started to let
saliva run from the mouth.
Curator: one who manages or oversees, as
the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.
‘To scold’: to reprimand or criticize
harshly and usually angrily.
‘Lanolin’: a yellow viscous animal oil
extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some
ointments and cosmetics.
In this text we can also appreciate
phrasal verbs such us ‘sign up’, ‘kept up’, ‘woke up’, ‘figure out’, ‘come
back’, ‘pass out’, ‘get it all off’ or ‘lie down’.
Washed dishes in the cafeteria; promoted to
food handler.
‘Food handlers’: Food manipulators.
‘Bagel’: A glazed, ring-shaped roll with a tough,
chewy texture, made from plain yeast dough that is dropped briefly into nearly
boiling water and then baked.
‘Skim’: used of milk and milk products from which the
cream has been removed. (US)
‘Dorm’: a college
or university building containing living quarters for students.
There are some examples of American
language, such as ‘skim’ ‘clerk’ or ‘cookies’.
Furthermore, we can see many phrasal verbs
like: ‘throw up’, ‘picked up’, ‘come up’, ‘glanced down’, ‘got back’, ‘sat
down’, ‘sat back’, ‘took off’, ‘stuck my finger down’ or ‘rinsed off’.
Sources:
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© www.thefreedictionary.com