The Leader has been named the best large weekly newspaper in Arkansas. It has offices in Jacksonville and Cabot and covers north Pulaski County, Lonoke County and White County. The Leader is a family owned and operated newspaper that was founded in 1987.

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

SPORTS >> Wildcats stall for win over ’Rabbits

By JASON KING
Leader sportswriter

The old fable of the tortoise and the hare came to life on the floor of Badger Sports Arena during Harding Academy’s 45-35 victory over Lonoke in the third-place game of the Beebe Christmas Classic basketball tournament on Friday.

The Wildcats (8-6) held a slim advantage throughout and built a nine-point lead in the third quarter only to see the Jackrabbits (9-4) pull to within four early in the fourth quarter. Lonoke had asystematically codified into definitions and collected together to form dictionaries, thesauruses and related denotative language references. However, the codification of connotative meanings has not been achieved. Consider, for example, a dictionary which provides the following denotative meaning for the word xe2x80x98pubxe2x80x99: xe2x80x9ca building providing alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premisesxe2x80x9d (Oxford Dictionary). However, the word xe2x80x98pubxe2x80x99 simultaneously conveys a host of emotional connotations, such as merriment, pleasure, cheerfulness, perhaps some sadness, and so on. Similarly, words such as xe2x80x98summerxe2x80x99, xe2x80x98lovexe2x80x99, and xe2x80x98melodyxe2x80x99 have a variety of positive emotional connotative associations for most people, while words such as xe2x80x98cancerxe2x80x99, xe2x80x98rapexe2x80x99, and xe2x80x98homelessxe2x80x99 have negative emotional connotations for most people. In all cases, the associated connotations are not systematically accessible using any known language reference resource or tool.
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