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    Miscommunications In language we use many different sounds to create words; we then use those words to communicate with one another our basic needs and wants. It’s astounding how we have learned to say many things and communicated with people‚ yet somehow many things can always be misinterpreted. There is always some type of ambiguity with what is said between one another. Although we talk to each other and we might think we are getting the message being sent to one. With family‚ friends‚ and complete

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    Language of Advt

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    THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING *Lakshmanan.M.P “There are four ways‚ and only four ways‚ in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do‚ how we look‚ what we say‚ and how we say it.” -Dale Carnegie Abstract We are living in an era of information explosion in which advertising seems to be an indispensable building block of the media.

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    Power of Language

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    The power of language Com200 Professor Mary Dawson January 14‚ 2013 After reading the article “Shared Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance “ by Bruce Bower It made me think twice about my own relationships and the communication that happens between me and another person; I took the Language Style Matching assessment to see how well me and another person were in synch with one and another. According to the LSM score it gives you a sense of how similar two people’s uses of words

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    Waray Language

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    WÁRAY- WÁRAY LANGUAGE Wáray-Wáray  (commonly spelled as Warai; also referred to as Winaray or Lineyte-Samarnon) or Samarnon is a language spoken in the provinces of Samar‚ Northern Samar‚ Eastern Samar‚ Biliran‚ and in the north-east of Leyte Island (surrounding Tacloban) in the Philippines. The name comes from the word often heard by non-speakers‚ "waray" (meaning "none"‚ "nothing" or "not")‚ in the same way that Cebuanos are known in Leyte as "mga Kana" (after the oft-heard word "kana"

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    Inflated Language

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    inflation is when there is too much currency so its value is lowered. The more rare something is the more it is worth. That is a very simple concept that can apply to so much more than economy. Inflation has infiltrated school‚ society‚ and even language. Ever since I was a little child‚ I have been showered with words like terrific‚ fantastic‚ and incredible‚ and I bet I am not the only kid who can say that. Everyone is treated like the best because when we are kids and our being raised by are

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    Political Language

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    POLITICAL LANGUAGE Language is the life blood of politics. Political power struggles‚ and the legitimisation of political policies and authorities occurs primarily through discourse and verbal representations. Power can either be exercised through coercion or what US commentator Walter Lippman termed in the 1930s the manufacture of consent. Largely unable‚ and hopefully unwilling‚ to coerce; political authorities in so called democratic polities often need to manufacture consent in order to

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    LANGUAGE STYLE

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    LANGUAGE AND STYLE In any language‚ different styles are appropriate in different situations: written x spoken formal - - - informal technical language (jargon) - - - slang Principles of English written style: Choose the suitable completions of the sentence: The more formal the language is‚ 1. the more it will use inanimate nouns as subjects of a sentence. 2. the more it will use verb structures (where choice is possible) 3. the less it will use passive structures 4. the more it is likely

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    power of language

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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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    Language Precis

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    Language Precis Words with Built-in Judgments S. I. Hayawaka and Alan R. Hayawaka’s article‚ “Words with Built-in Judgments”‚ asserts that prejudice is predominantly seen in language through specific word choices we make. Both Hayawakas point out that people use words such as “Hispanic” and “developmentally disabled” to avoid insulting a specific group of people‚ as well as other examples‚ in order to prove that people watch how they speak every day. Given the extensive factual information‚ it is

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    Death Penalty

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    Minimal Invasion Argument In his paper‚ “The Minimal Invasion Argument Against the Death Penalty”‚ Hugo Adam Bedau argues against the death penalty. Bedau’s purpose is to convince people to favor the lifetime imprisonment over the death penalty with an argument that had been previously used by other authors called “The minimal Invasion Argument”‚ which he considers to be “the best argument against the death penalty”(Bedau‚ 4). In this paper I will describe Bedau’s argument and show how he has

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