Glossary of Linguistic Terms [pic] Accelerando: Accelerando is the term when speech speeds up‚ and is said at a quicker pace. Accelerando is only for spoken‚ not written speech however. This obviously speeds up narrative pace and makes the mood more intense and dramatic. Acronym: An acronym is where words are shortened to just the first letter. E.G. ‘U.N’ is an acronym as it is short for ‘United Nations’. The effect of acronyms
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Linguistic diversity in society and a society’s system of social stratification goes in hands in hands. The more ethnic or diverse language‚ the less that it is valued by society. The less Europeans sounding language the less “civilized” the group is perceived by society. This occur even within a culture‚ for example in Haiti the standard language is French even though the majority of the country speak creole. In Haiti‚ French is viewed as if you are educated and if you are fluent in French then
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TERM PAPER :CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS Introduction: Contrastive Linguistics‚ roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages‚ has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect‚ however‚ it also has a strong theoretical purpose‚ contributing to our understanding of language typology and language universals. The study of two languages in contrast‚ here called contrastive analysis
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Question #19: What is meant by Inflection? Illustrate. Assuming my definition does not define inflections found in one particular language‚ and instead be defined in general terms (associated within all languages affected)‚ the word inflection in linguistics is an adjustment made to stem (in the form of a prefix‚ suffix‚ infix‚ etc.) to clarify: how many‚ to which gender an object belongs‚ when an event has taken place‚ in which tense the 3rd person (singular) has acted‚ mood‚ voice‚ and also in the
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as the narrator herself‚ tells that her son that she loves the most has totally changed from a baby to a more mature boy. She tells how her son following his school every day‚ and how his son’s behavior changes because of Laurie’s friend’s bad influence named Charles‚ who is always told to his mother almost every day after he come back home. Her love to her son makes her blind and too naive to realize that actually Charles is Laurie himself. Although‚ Laurie is a naughty boy but he is a smart and
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1. Describe the major goals and methods of the ethnography of communication. 2. Discuss the interrelationships of gender and language in English speakers. 3. Outline the objectives‚ methodologies‚ and results of the sociolinguistic study of language and class. 4. Describe the main goals of conversation analysis‚ indicate what features of conversation support this approach and discuss any weaknesses of conversation analysis. 5. Summarize and critically evaluate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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04_ogra_sg_ch04.qxd 9/2/11 4:25 PM Page 71 CHAPTER 4. MORPHOLOGY: THE ANALYSIS OF WORD STRUCTURE Morphology is the study of words: their categories‚ their internal structure‚ and the operations that form them. Important topics and concepts found in this chapter include the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Morphological terminology Identifying morphemes Identifying lexical categories Analyzing word structure Derivation Compounding Inflection Morphological processes Morphology
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Lin‚ Alan Spring 2013 Linguistics 1 Properties of Language According to Linguistics Language‚ we use it everyday‚ but what exactly defines “language?” Are there generalizations to be made of all languages? Does everyone learn language same way? What are the rules of language? “What is Language?” by Neil Smith and Deirdre Wilson answers these questions and more by highlighting the three major theories of modern linguistics. The first modern linguistic theory claims that language is govern
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In the wake of perusing the article I have shaped my sincere beliefs about cross-burning. I don’t concur with cross-burning on the grounds that the cross speaks to heavenliness for Christians. In spite of the fact that everybody doesn’t have similar convictions‚ cross-burning is an objective against a specific gathering of people. I do trust cross-burning ought to be ILLEGAL furthermore‚ it ought to be considered "hate act" and a risk. The constitution ensures the privileges of its nationals. The
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The Birth of Linguistics as an Autonomous Discipline – Q1 The term linguistics was first used in the middle of the 19th century. The earliest Greek linguistic notions are from 5th – 4th century b.c. And grammatical description became a profession in the 17th c. Plato’s dialogue “Cratilus” is the first Western document of linguistic analysis‚ hiss notion of language is that each word has an underlying form which express the meaning of that word in a transparent way. Additionally‚ words are
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