Descriptive grammar Describes the rules that govern what people do or can say LING 200 -- McGarrity 9 Prescriptive rules “Don’t end a sentence w/ a preposition!” “Don’t split infinitives!” “Don’t use double negatives!” Clip: “The State of American” http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/correct/ LING 200 -- McGarrity 10 Descriptive rules Phonological: In English‚ the sounds [rt] can end a word‚ but not begin it e.g.‚ art‚ *rta (‘*’ = ungrammatical) Syntactic: In English‚ adjectives
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Every country has its own culture which is different from other countries’. Therefore‚ differences in cultures can make communication misunderstanding. Cultural differences increase the likelihood of misunderstanding as well. If people speak different languages‚ the danger of bad translation is obvious. But even if people speak the same language‚ they may communicate in different ways. Common differences are between high-context and low-context communication. Low-context communication stands on its
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Cultural differences are also an important aspect of the critical incident as mother was from a Pakistan and had recently moved to England. Emma was from Pakistan has had only been in the country for a year and was finding it difficult to adjust and integrate into her community and was therefore was being supported by health visitor which stopped when she was re admitted with baby to hospital. However‚ due to lack of communication listening visit did not continue immediately after discharge. Studies
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To start this off‚ conservatives and liberals are quite opposite of eachother. Liberals are into new ideas and fixing things as Conservatives are more traditional and don’t like change. Liberals believe that everyone should work together and rely on the government to fix their problems‚ on the other hand conservatives believe that things should be kept personal and problems should be solved on a personal level. Conservatives believe in a strong national security because without it we are open to
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It was the final morning of Percival’s pity party‚ and he had spent the previous days blind-drunk‚ sick‚ and often‚ tearful. The tears bothered him the most‚ because what kind of Knight of Camelot wept like a baby? No other man carried on so over being jilted. Most would probably roam the streets within the hour and find a wench to take to bed to help him forget. But when Percival so much as thought about touching another woman‚ his skin crawled. What he and Fleur had‚ their bond‚ had been special
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the consequences of the things he does. Doctor cares only for himself‚ puts his experiments before his fiancé‚ and later when the monster kills her‚ he brings her back to life‚ regardless of her feelings on the matter. Second theme is a love theme between Elizabeth and Victor Frankenstein. His seemingly lunatic experiments turn out to be all for the sake of one belief which is that people deserve to live out their lives in the company of those they love. In this movie‚ the creature is treated like
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for the United State to turn into an Imperialistic country. For example‚ there was lot and lots of economic‚ political‚ and strategic things that were happening throughout America and the rest of the world during this time period. Various industries such as investors including bankers and the new wealthy class were scared that the United States would soon produce more than it could ever use up and wanted to find new source of raw materials and markets for their products in new states. Besides
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|Costless Clothing Company | |Cultural Differences between China and America | |[Report of Survey] | |Written to: Liu Tong‚ the director of the company
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Cultural Differences Paper COM/360 Nicole Kragt Cultural Differences Paper “People must live and interact together for the culture to survive. In doing so‚ they must develop a way of relating that strikes a balance between showing concern for themselves and concern for others” (Koester & Lustig‚ Chapter 5‚ 2010). There are over 7 billion people in this world with thousands even millions born even day‚ but we as individual units think we live our lives as independents. We are not without influences
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BIRTH OF NAZISM "Until the German people understand that one can conduct politics only when one has the support of power—and again power. Only so is reconstruction possible… It is not an economic question which faces the German people‚ it is a political question—how shall the nation’s determination be recovered?" (Bullock‚ 1962) Adolf Hitler posed this question to the German people in 1923. The face of post World War I Germany was truly battered‚ in all senses of
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