Shojo and Adult Women: A Linguistic Analysis of Gender Identity in Manga (Japanese Comics) Junko Ueno Abstract: This study analyzes the linguistic behavior of female characters in shoJo (girls) and ladies (women) manga (Japanese comics) and discusses the portrayal of female gender identities in the context of popular print media. Considering the great impact that Japanese print media has had over Japanese women’s speech patterns throughout history‚ a linguistic analysis of female characters’ speech
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Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis Of Richard Matheson`s story « BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN » The author of the story under discussion is Richard Matheson‚ an American author and screenwriter‚ primarily in the fantasy‚ horror‚ and science fiction genres. “Born of Man and Woman”‚ a 1950 short story by Richard Matheson‚ is about a young child‚ born an ugly creature‚ who is kept chained in the basement by its parents and frequently beaten. The key of the story is horrific‚ since the author depicts terrifying
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Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts Anne Hutchinson was a church going woman at the least. She moved to Massachusetts in 1634 with her husband and thirteen children. She was expecting her fourteenth when they arrived. Her main influence to migrate to the Americas was Reverend John Cotton. He was a minister to her while they lived in England and she could hear prayers from anyone else but him. Anne was a true believer of the Puritan faith and keeping up the traditions and worship. She believed
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Negation‚ –ing forms. 2012 TASK 6 In the following microtexts (i) analyse for meaning and contrastive relevance‚ (ii) suggest suitable translations in Spanish for the given utterances‚ (iii) translate the paragraphs. 1. There was something unreal about sitting in a café with a cup of coffee and a cream bun -- with several small children shouting and screaming to attract the attention of their mothers‚ who were absorbed in well-thumbed magazines—and discovering just how ill Harriet was. 2. Of
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A Critical Review of Lexical Collocations: a Contrastive View By Jens Bahns Introduction Lexical Collocations is a paper written by Jens Bahns‚ the subtitle of which is a contrastive view. The paper was published in ELT journal in 1993. It mainly tells us that lexical collocations are an essential part in the field of EFL teaching‚ and showed us a more effective way to teach the students---- by using contrastive analysis of lexical collocations. The paper aimed to reduce the burdens for
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Position paper Linguistic diversity creates a sense of cultural identity in an increasingly individualistic world and should therefore be preserved Introduction: In many ways‚ language provides a sense of identity. We establish our identity through our use of language. Language is so deeply embedded in culture that cultural identity is defined to a great extent in terms of language. In a more and more globalizing and individualistic world‚ this means
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International Research Achievements on Appellation 3 1.2.1 Domestic Research Achievements on Appellation 4 1.2.2 International Research Achievements on Appellation 5 2 Contrastive Analysis between Chinese and English Appellation 6 2.1 Contrastive Analysis of Kinship Terms 6 2.2 Contrastive Analysis of Name Address 8 2.3 Contrastive Analysis of Social Address 10
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Practice in Language Studies‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 6‚ pp. 1178-1187‚ June 2014 © 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187 Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama ’s 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—In the light of Halliday
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Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova Institute of International Relations of the Republic of Moldova Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Philology COURSE PAPER “A contrastive Analysis of translating metaphors in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” Written by: 2nd year student‚ Group: 2LM2‚ Mihai Marina Scientific adviser: University Lecturer Sîngereanu T. Chisinau 2012 Contents: Introduction………………………………………………………………......…1 Chapter 1 Metaphor
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Vietnamese in terms of topics‚ formulas‚ and responses. First thing first‚ let have a look at the definition. Definition of compliment Cambridge dictionary defines a compliment as “a remark that expresses approval‚ admiration or respect”. In linguistics‚ Holmes (1986‚ p.446) wrote “A compliment is a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker‚ usually the person addressed‚ for some ‘good’ (possession‚ characteristic‚ skill‚ etc.)‚ which is positively
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