Reflexive pronoun

In language, a reflexive pronoun, sometimes simply called a reflexive, is a pronoun that is preceded or followed by the noun, adjective, adverb or pronoun to which it refers (its antecedent) within the same clause.

In English specifically, a reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, and is an object that refers to a previously named noun or pronoun. Reflexive pronouns take the same forms as intensive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, ourselves, itself, themselves, yourselves

In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent (see binding). In a general sense, it is a noun phrase that obligatorily gets its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence. Different languages have different binding domains for reflexive pronouns, according to their structure.

Origins and usage

In Indo-European languages, the reflexive pronoun has its origins in Proto-Indo-European. In some languages, the distinction between the normal object and reflexive pronouns exists mainly in the third person: whether one says "I like me" or "I like myself", there is no question that the object is the same person as the subject; but, in "They like them(selves)", there can be uncertainty about the identity of the object unless a distinction exists between the reflexive and the nonreflexive. In some languages, this distinction includes genitive forms: see, for instance, the Danish examples below. In languages with a distinct reflexive pronoun form, it is often gender-neutral.

Myself (album)

Myself is the eleventh studio album of Taiwanese female singer Jolin Tsai (Chinese: 蔡依林). It was released on 13 August 2010 by Warner Music Taiwan. It was the best-selling female album of 2010 in Taiwan, with 65,000 copies sold in Taiwan. The singles, "Honey Trap" (美人計), "Nothing Left to Say" (無言以對) and "Love Player" (玩愛之徒), were the 2010 Hit FM Annual Top 100 Chart number one, number twenty, and number fifty-five singles. Tsai was nominated for a Golden Melody Awards for Best Music Video for the music video of "Honey Trap" (美人計).

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2nd (The Rasmus EP)

2nd is an EP released by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus in 1996. It was originally released by the record label Warner Music Finland.

2nd is, just like 1st, often described as a regular single. Since the title is not a name of any songs from the album Peep (where all songs appears on), it counts as an EP.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality. However, this is only a fundamental psychological definition of a stereotype. Within psychology and spanning across other disciplines, there are different conceptualizations and theories of stereotyping that provide their own expanded definition. Some of these definitions share commonalities, though each one may also harbor unique aspects that may contradict the others.

Etymology

The term stereotype derives from the Greek words στερεός (stereos), "firm, solid" and τύπος (typos), "impression", hence "solid impression on one or more idea/theory".

The term comes from the printing trade and was first adopted in 1798 by Firmin Didot to describe a printing plate that duplicated any typography. The duplicate printing plate, or the stereotype, is used for printing instead of the original.

Stereotype (printing)

In printing, a stereotype, also known as a cliché, stereoplate or simply a stereo, was originally a "solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould (called a flong) taken from the surface of a forme of type" used for printing instead of the original.

The composition of individual cast metal types into lines with leading and furniture, tightly locked into a forme was labor-intensive and costly. The printer would incur further expense through loss of the type for other uses while held in formes, and the wear to the type during printing. With the growth in popularity of the novel, printers who did not accurately predict sales were forced into the expense of resetting type for subsequent editions. The stereotype radically changed the way novels were reprinted, saving printers the expense of resetting while freeing the type for other jobs.

Stereotyping is generally held to have been invented by William Ged in 1725, who apparently stereotyped plates for the Bible at Cambridge University before abandoning the business. However, an earlier form of stereotyping from flong was described in Germany in the seventeenth century, and it is possible that the process was used as early as the fifteenth century by Johannes Gutenberg or his heirs for the Mainz Catholicon. Wide application of the technique, with improvements, is attributed to Charles Stanhope in the early 1800s. Printing plates for the Bible were stereotyped in the US in 1814.

Stereotype (Karl Wolf album)

Stereotype is the fifth album of Lebanese-Canadian artist Karl Wolf released on September 2, 2014 after Face Behind the Face (2006), Bite the Bullet (2007), Nightlife (2009) and Finally Free (2012). Musically the album is rooted in 1980s music , Party-type summer music , etc. Prior to the release of the album, three singles appearing on the album has already been released as singles in 2013, "Go Your Own Way" featuring Reema Major , in 2014 "Magic Hotel" featuring Timbaland and B K Brasco and the third one in 2014 "Summertime" - His party time summer song. In an Interview of "What She Said" Wolf said that "He done his own stuff , that's Why he made this Album called Stereotype", because some people thinks that he is a stereotype. In his single " Summertime / Let's Get Rowdy" featuring Fatman Scoop he wanted to show that how more beautiful his birthplace Beirut, Lebanon is for him and for whole world, as he said in his video.

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