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    Figuartive Language

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    about the structure and patterns of language unique to specific authors. These patterns are what make a great book a great book. The arduous task of analyzing works for grammar and style has yielded a unique product‚ guaranteed to enlighten the reader of literary classics. Grammardog’s strategy is to put the author’s words under the microscope. The result yields an increased appreciation of the art of writing and awareness of the importance and power of language. Grammardog.com L.L.C. P.O. Box 299

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    Figurative Language

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    Figurative and literal language is different methods used in conveying and analyzing language. Literal language refers to words that do not differ from their original definition. Figurative language refers to words or groups of words that exaggerate the meanings of the words. Figurative language is not used literally but instead involves similarities to concepts or other contexts; which results in a figure of speech. For example‚ “it’s raining hard outside” is literal and “it’s raining cats and

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    Languages and Slang

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    Languages‚ dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today‚ and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`‚ ´Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main language of Sweden and is spoken approximately by 10 million people. Although until 2009 it was not the official language. The reason for that was

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    Importance of Language

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    The Importance of Language The language is very important in any culture. A language does far more than just enable people to communicate with each other. The language of one country is different from the other country and it tells the features of the country which distinguish it from one company to another.  Languages shape the way people perceive the world and it also provides help to define culture of any society. There are countries in which more than one language is spoken; you will find

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    Language Of Race

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    The Language of Race The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Levinson‚ Meira. 2003. The Language of Race. Theory and Research in Education 1‚ no. 3: 267-281. Published Version doi:10.1177/1477878503001003001 Accessed March 3‚ 2015 2:04:52 PM EST Citable Link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10860769 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository‚ and

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    Armenian Language

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    anNadine Abo Laban 900113591 Gap paper 2 (Armenian Language) Introduction The guest speaker who graced us with her presence was Alyssah Depoya‚ who is of Armenian origin. According to Alyssah‚ all pure Armenians last names end with “yan” which acts as an indicator of whether the person is of pure Armenian origin. Armenia is a mountainous country located in the South Caucasus region in Eurasia. It is bordered by Turkey‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijan and Iran (“Armenia”‚ n.d). Armenian people have a

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    Baldwin On Language

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    In 1979‚ an African-American writer by the name of James Baldwin wrote that “language is also a political instrument‚ means‚ and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity.” Baldwin claims that language is a crucial component in the attainment of power. It is also what identifies a person in regards to character and placement in society. This view on how language affects humanity is just. Language greatly impacts society by determining the power one has as well as revealing

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    Darcy's Language

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    Kayla Murray English Novel December 18‚ 2012 Seminar Paper Mr. Darcy’s Language Language is defined as “the method of human communication‚ either spoken or written‚ consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. Mr. Darcy‚ in Jane Austen’s infamous novel Pride and Prejudice‚ seems to be a man of very few words. His language makes him come off as rude‚ arrogant‚ and doesn’t like the idea of mixing in between the social classes. He is wealthy; inquiring almost 10‚000 pounds

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    Language Identity

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    Language Identity Are the people who become fluent in a second or third language at risk of losing their own identity? Language has been a way of communicating with each other for thousands of years‚ maybe even more. Since the day we were born we started to learn to speak the language of our fatherland and we’re all still learning. I don’t believe that you can necessarily lose your identity because you speak two or three languages. Identity is a very big word to use and is influenced by many

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    Agglutinating languages

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    Agglutinative language Jump to: navigation‚ search Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alignment Accusative Ergative Split ergative Philippine Active–stative Tripartite Marked nominative Inverse marking Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object Verb–object–subject OV languages Subject–object–verb Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject V2 word

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