the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics‚ but has no autonomous domain of its own. Types of Stylistics: 1. Computational Stylistics: Study of patterns formed in particular texts‚ authors‚ genres‚ periods via computational methods. Through the use of computers‚ it should be possible to achieve more accurate detection and explanation of such linguistic patterns. 2. Linguo-Stylistics: Linguo-stylistics studies
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Linguistics‚ though one of the youngest behavioral sciences‚ has a background extending over several millennia. During this period scholars with various interests have concerned themselves with language. Some of the most readable treatises on language were produced by the Greeks and Romans‚ such as Plato’s Cratylus and Quintilian’s advice to an orator. Much of our terminology was devised in the course of this earlier concern. Any of introductions to linguistic cannot‚ therefore‚ limit itself to one
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Linguistics is the scientific study of human language.[1][2][3][4][5] Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form‚ language meaning‚ and language in context. The earliest known activities in descriptive linguistics have been attributed toPāṇini around 500 BCE‚ with his analysis of Sanskrit in Ashtadhyayi.[6] One subfield of linguistics is the study of language structure‚ or grammar. This focuses on the system of rules followed by the users of a language
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Wednesday‚ March 4‚ 2009 Which variety of English do you speak/teach? I teach in Japan‚ where a standard American dialect (which one I don’t really know) is strongly encouraged‚ unless you teach in places like the British council (which many of my friends have). I have been living in this pseudo English environment (American dialect‚ international friends and teacher talk) so long that it has started to affect my own use and pronunciation of English. Every time I go back to Australia‚ my friends
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Linguistics III Set 1: Cross linguistic influence and learner language Psychological principles of SLA form the foundation stones for building a comprehensible understanding of the acquisition of the linguistic system. The studies was centered on the contrasts between the native lang and the target lang (contrastive analysis) and the effect of the native on the target lang (cross linguistic influence). 1-The contrastive analysis Hypothesis It’s the study of two languages in contrast. Based on
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Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics‚ but has no autonomous domain of its own.[1][2] The preferred object of stylistic studies is literature‚ but not exclusively "high literature" but also other forms of written texts such as text from the domains of advertising‚ pop culture‚ politics or religion.[3] Stylistics also attempts to establish principles capable of explaining the particular choices
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meaningful messages or receive and understand messages. ‘How is language organised in order to be meaningful?’ This is the question we ask and attempt to answer at the level of semantics. Semantics is that level of linguistic analysis where meaning is analysed. It is the most abstract level of linguistic analysis‚ since we cannot see or observe meaning as we can observe and record sounds. Meaning is related very closely to the human capacity to think logically and to understand. So when we try to analyse meaning
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PAPER 6 (DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS) Discuss synchronic and diachronic approaches to language. In opposition to the totally historical view of language of the previous hundred years‚ Ferdinand de Saussure emphasized the importance of seeing from two distinct and largely exclusive points of view‚ which he called "synchronic" and "diachronic". The word "chronic" has been derived from Greek word "chronos" which means time. Synchronic linguistics sees language as a living whole‚ existing as a state
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response.(Ormrod‚1995) Often times they will refer to language as verbal behaviour‚ which is language that includes gestures and body movements as well as spoken word. ( Pierce‚& Eplin‚1999) As one of language in the world‚ English is considered and applied as international language. Since then‚ it is very popular and has been spoken and learnt by almost people in the world. The importance of learning English cannot be overstated in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. It is indisputably
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1. Linguistic features of Germanic languages: vowels. Germanic languages also have some peculiarities in the sphere of vowel sounds‚ which distinguish them from other Indo-European languages. Their main characteristic feature in this sphere is the treatment of the Indo-European short vowels o and a and the long vowels o and a. Indo-European short o and a appear as short a languages. E.g.:in IE Germanic Russ. Яблоко germ. Apfel Lat. Noctem goth. Nahts Russ.ночь germ. Nacht Indo-European
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