What's the difference between counselor and linguistics?

Counselor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who counsels; an adviser.
  • (n.) A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.]
  • (n.) One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
  • (2) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
  • (3) This paper describes the counseling program implemented by a social worker and a family planning counselor for female clinic patients requesting sterilization.
  • (4) The type of counselor utilized did not affect the level of compliance with either dependent variable.
  • (5) This study is based on interviews with Southern lesbian and gay young adults and survey data from school counselors and prospective teachers living in the South.
  • (6) The counselor, usually a woman, may have a background or training in social work, psychology, sociology, counseling, or nursing.
  • (7) This finding does not support the contention that a history of drinking and rehabilitation enhances the perception of counselor empathy among alcoholics.
  • (8) Counselors were not asked directly which theories they used.
  • (9) Stepwise logistic regression indicated that clients who reported that their plans were influenced: came to counseling to get information for making a decision about whether to have a child; discussed this decision in depth with the counselor; and had more education than clients who said that they were not influenced.
  • (10) A competent and effective genetic counselor must recognize and deal with the psychological defense mechanisms which affected persons and parents of affected children use to cope with the strain of genetic disease in the family.
  • (11) Contributions to the integration and acceptance of the young stroke survivor by administrators, counselors, students, teachers, and school nurses are examined.
  • (12) Health and mental health centers employing both professional and nonprofessional counselors need to determine the value of adding outreach components to their services, and agencies which already have outreach programs may need to determine their relevance and effectiveness.
  • (13) A combination of clinical ratings from counselors and statistical data from client files was used to predict 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' outcomes.
  • (14) One intervention compared research breast-feeding bedside counseling by a trained counselor, who also made eight telephone calls during the first 3 months of the infant's life, with the routine breast-feeding counseling provided in the hospital by nurses.
  • (15) Thus, it has become essential for health professionals, counselors, and parents to become familiar with characteristics of the high-risk teenager.
  • (16) A strong positive association was found between the counselors' attire and the clients' perception of the four selected characteristics of counselors.
  • (17) Smokers requesting self-help materials for smoking cessation (N = 2,021) were randomized to receive (a) an experimental self-quitting guide emphasizing nicotine fading and other nonaversive behavioral strategies, (b) the same self-quitting guide with a support guide for the quitter's family and friends, (c) self-quitting and support guides along with four brief counselor calls, or (d) a control guide providing motivational and quit tips and referral to locally available guides and programs.
  • (18) Structured meetings between the mother, a vocational counselor, and deaf adults affirmed and expanded the more positive images.
  • (19) Genetic counselors might focus on understanding counselees' feelings concerning the reproductive decision.
  • (20) Acting as the advocates and counselors of adolescents, the NFHWs will help to prepare the expectant mothers for the arrival of their infant.

Linguistics


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is argued that exposure to a linguistic structure that induces the child to operate on that structure can lead to a reorganization of linguistic knowledge even though no direct feedback has been given as to its correct adult interpretation.
  • (2) Underperformance in reading, writing, and other linguistic skills as well as visuo-spatial excellence may result from these changes.
  • (3) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
  • (4) Fundamental frequency (F0) values are reported for 14 children between the ages of 11 and 25 months, an age period characterized by changes in physiological and linguistic development.
  • (5) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
  • (6) The search for the acoustic properties useful to the listener in extracting the linguistic message from a speech signal is often construed as the task of matching invariant physical properties to invariant phonological percepts; the discovery of the former will explain the latter.
  • (7) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
  • (8) Prior to undertaking the exploration of phenomena in a research study with people from different cultures, certain elements must be addressed in order to bridge cultural and linguistic differences.
  • (9) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
  • (10) The model is based on neural processes rather than linguistic or symbolic constructs.
  • (11) The literature suggests that cleft palate children and adults perform below their peers on both linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks.
  • (12) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
  • (13) Rozanne Colchester , a linguist who worked on Italian airforce codes and was an MI6 agent after the war, said: "There were a great many love affairs going on about which we did not speak in those claustrophobic days of the war.
  • (14) Linguistic analysis shows that the information is written in a difficult style with a median readability index of 48.2.
  • (15) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
  • (16) The speech problems of our patients seemed to indicate higher level motor encoding problems of linguistic information rather than peripheral articulatory deficits.
  • (17) This diversity approximated that found when linguistically unrelated groups were compared.
  • (18) These results differ from those obtained previously with noncorresponding pairs of linguistic-nonlinguistic dimensions.
  • (19) "This research is not only an extremely complex and interesting study of songbirds, it also gives us a unique insight into how brain development may contribute to human linguistic capabilities," said Prof Tamas Szekely of the Biodiversity Lab at the University of Bath's department of biology and biochemistry.
  • (20) Strong relationships appear between linguistic and fine motor skills in an age group not previously investigated and at higher levels than reported in studies of infants and very young children.