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    Ihsan Ibaddurrahman (G1025429) Term paper for Phonetics and Phonology (ENGL 6002) Discourse Intonation in ELT In order to attain total mastery of English language‚ ESL students should undoubtedly be taught the intonation of English. Without learning this suprasegmental feature‚ English learners‚ regardless of their level of English proficiency‚ would be at risk of causing serious communication breakdown with native speakers. Recent studies show that there has been a growing awareness of the

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    Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail

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    Throughout both of these works his opinion of using violence when needed has never changed. In the Discourses he states that if you need to resort to violence in order to seize power so you can reconstruct the constitution of a city so that it fosters political liberty‚ go for it. (Machiavelli 1994‚129). Likewise‚ in The Prince Machiavelli justifies the

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    Reading Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language

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    The social discourse of motherhood is a topic that has been controversial for some time. It has been analyzed from many different perspectives and known to be bad and good in some circumstances. Socially‚ motherhood has not always been accepted. A working and single mother is not given the same status in society as a married‚ financially stable mother‚ even if they both followed the same path of motherhood. There are many discrepancies in society which make it difficult to weigh the implications

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    the world; however‚ today our focus is to take a look at the discourse community of biology and analyze what components of language do they value more and the reasoning behind it. Before we learn more about the discourse community of biology‚ we need to know something about the discourse community. What is discourse community and who is in discourse community and are you part of discourse community. According to the article “Discourse Community”‚ by

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    it has been pronounced”. The only ground for a void marriage which may apply on the facts is if Norman and Deirdre failed to observe certain legal formalities required for a valid marriage . More information is needed on what formalities‚ were observed at wedding. However on the facts we are aware that the marriage ceremony took place in a registry office‚ as a result the marriage must comply with certain legal requirements. The marriage must have been solemnised under the authority of a superintendent

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    background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ and believing. All the words use to describe social gatherings covered by the author James Paul Gee in his Article “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction.” Discourse is capitalized because the lowercase means connected stretches of language that make sense. The Discourse I use and

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    Critical discourse analysis‚ organizational discourse‚ and organizational change A realist view of discourse analysis Discourses is an element of all concrete social events (actions‚ processes) as well as of more durable social practices‚ though neither are simply discourse: they are articulations of discourse with non-discoursal elements. ‘Discourse’ subsumes language as well as other forms of semiosis such as visual images and ‘body language’‚ and the discoursal element of a social event often

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    John Swales is an author who wrote “The Concept of Discourse Community”‚ which is an essay that aims to clearly conceptualize what a discourse community is and does so by outlining six criteria that must be met in order to identify a group of people as a discourse community. In fact‚ in his essay‚ Swales considers hierarchy to be one of the defining characteristics of any discourse community. Swales also claims that within the hierarchy of a discourse community that‚ “individuals enter as apprentices

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