as it is codified‚ regular‚ and accepted nationally as the official language of Norway. 80-90% of population use Bokmal‚ it is also commonly taught to foreign students & usually more in the Eastern and Southern region of Norway. 12% of population use Nynorsk and more in the Western region. Four out of 19 counties‚ mainly around the West coast‚ use Nynorsk as their official language. In school‚ students are taught both languages. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)‚ owned by the state‚ is
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Paper downloaded from www.wcaanet.org/events/webinar as part of the EASA / ABA / AAA / CASCA webinar 2013 Political Economies of Language: Power‚ Epistemology and the Representation of Research by Alexandra Jaffe Both sets of questions raised in this virtual seminar make the important point that the political economy involved in how we conduct‚ and then represent our ethnographic practice has both linguistic and epistemological dimensions. With this in mind‚ I take a critical look at linguistic
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Language Development Observation Number: 1 Observation Date: 19/11/12 Method Used: Narrative Media Used: Pen + Paper Start Time: 14:30 Finish Time: 14:45 Number of children present: 4 Number of adults present: 2 Permission obtained from: Father of child Setting: The observation took place in the child’s home. The child’s home is a semi-detached house in a housing estate Immediate Context: This observation took place in the kitchen. TC is seated at the kitchen
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List the advantages of high level language. What are its features? (5-marks) In high level languages we write programs in English like language and are more convenient to use. Programmer can perform complex task by using high level languages with less efforts. There are different high level languages such as FORTRAN‚ c‚ c++ etc One advantage is programmer efficiency. Potentially hundreds of functions can perform easily. High level language programs require less time and efforts that due the
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E1. Communication and Language development The development in children of a young ages increases in the first few years of their life. A child aged between 0-3 their language and communication development they begin at the pre-linguistic stages starting with cooing which usually comes at around 6 weeks; this is where a baby makes cooing noises to show pleasure. These early sounds are different from the sounds they make later on which is mainly because the mouth is still developing. At 6-9 months
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Body Language Whether we realize it or not body language is used in our day-to-day lives. Body language is a form of non-verbal communication consisting of body posture‚ gestures‚ and eye movements. Humans usually send and interpret such signals unconsciously. Every day we respond to some sort of non-verbal communication or give off some sort of non-verbal communication ourselves. Scientific research on nonverbal communication and behavior began in 1872 with the publication of Charles Darwin’s
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Zaira Rios. Ms. A. Engl_114_686 January 31‚ 2014 Home Language In the lecture of Amy Tan‚ “Mother Tongue” is described as the way in which language develops from location in which we are raised‚ and unconsciously we adapt our language with each group we socialize with in our lives. Tan describes herself as someone who is “fascinated by language in daily life. There was a specific moment in the text that Tan realizes that she is using different “Englishes” in different social contexts. Tan
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“Philosophy of Language: Paved way for a better Development Communicator” One concept discussed in Philosophy 1 that I think is particularly applicable to my course – Bachelor of Science Development Communication‚ is the ‘Philosophy of Language.’ I have chosen this concept because we all know that philosophy of language is concerned on the problem: “When we say something‚ it must be meaningful. How then can we know if statements are meaningful or not?” While the Development Communication
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was originally foreign language in british isles . english language descends from language of two german tribes angles and saxons that were invaders‚they spoke same language in different dialects called old english /anglo-saxon (450to1150 A.D).(nouns) It’s not still language of england because of other two invasions 1. from denmark by northmen or vikings. 2.from normandy(france)by the normans(1066A.D) normans the french seakers turned old english into compound language tht we know as MIDDLE
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08/10/13 The power of language Have you ever been in a foreign country‚ where you didn’t speak the native language? How were you treated? How did you communicate? What if this foreign country was right here in the United States? At what point do we as a country‚ America‚ accept all the languages spoken here as equally important? Then of course there is the discussion about the quality of English that is spoken. Do you
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