SHAKESPEARE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Multiliteracies‚ Technologies and the Bard 1 My experience as a drama teacher in public schools and my observations on prac is that high school students in English or Drama classes find Shakespeare frustrating and alienating. And for many non-English speaking and Indigenous students‚ Shakespeare requires a cognitive leap made doubly problematic by cultural distance. In many ways‚ it’s like learning another language‚ hence the title of my investigation. I intend
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of Language." (Jakobson’s terms honored over Yaguello’s) Sue Smith‚ snsmith@u.arizona.edu Yaguello‚ Marina. Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Trans. Marina Yaguello and Trevor Harris. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 1998. The speech event‚ an act of verbal communication‚ brings into play 6 features‚ closely interdependent. An utterance does not necessarily/usually have only one function. CONSTITUATIVE FACTORS of a SPEECH EVENT Addresser THE FUNCTIONS of LANGUAGE PURPOSE
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Is it Language? In artifact number four my group was presented an image of “asemic art”. The image shows several variations of strokes. The image seems to be composed of circular or rounded strokes. There weren’t any strokes that seemed particularly sharp. In this image; there seems to be an element of creativity‚ which is a characteristic of language. I consider artifact four as a language because it’s creative‚ complex and redundant. However‚ there are some that would disagree because the writing
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1 Assignment 2 How significant was the Reformed faith for the success of the Dutch Revolt Essay plan??? My essay will begin with a chapter on when and why the revolt Started‚ and will then continue to explain and talk about the main participants in its continuance and then go on to talk about their individual beliefs and reasons for the revolts emergence and success. The Dutch revolt or the revolt of the Netherlands as it is also known as‚ started in 1566 and carried on until the
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by the language he or she uses. In an essay of not more than 400 words‚ discuss with reference to the characteristics and salient features of DIALECT‚ SOCIOLECT and IDIOLECT. Linguists commonly use language variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language‚ including dialect‚ idiolect and social dialect. The use of the word variety refer to those different forms that avoid the use of the term language‚ which many people associate only with the standard language‚ and the
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Essay on Montessori Language Language lies at the root of that transformation of the environment that we call ‘civilization’. The child’s language developments during his or her early years are freely remarkable. Describe how does the Montessori environment aid the child’s language development? What is civilization? “Civilization is a term used to describe a certain kind of development of a human society”(2). In ancient Egypt‚ writing was first discovered in the form of paintings
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disturbed by the argument of the couple‚ as John couldn’t understand what Allison’s actual intentions were. The author tells an anecdote in order to explain features of women’s spoken language‚ such as indirect speech‚ in more entertaining way that would capture the reader’s attention. He implements spoken language features‚ for example non standard structuring of questions “everything OK darling?” and punctuation marks “… “ which indentifies the pause of the speaker‚ so the story would be easy to
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1. This book integrates research in language acquisition‚ psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call language "comprehension‚" right from the reception of an acoustic stimulus at the ear‚ up to the point where we interpret the message the speaker intended. A major theme of the book is that "comprehension" is not a unitary skill; to understand spoken language‚ one needs the ability to classify incoming speech sounds‚ to relate them to a "mental lexicon
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4 Stylistic Features of Language Speech communication employs a host of expressive means ranging from linguistic to paralinguistic and extralinguistic features. It is the natural language‚ however‚ whose systematic variation on all levels of its structure (phonology‚ morphology‚ lexicology and syntax) offers the widest possibilities of suiting its use to fit communicative functions of discourses in various contexts. Thus linguistic expressive means‚ which are systematically identified and cetegorized
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Nikki Valles Haddix English 100 March 18th 2013 I wish I could’ve said something but I didn’t I remember getting out of the car on the morning of Mac’s funeral. The sky was clearing with the sunlight peering through the clouds‚ the ground still damp from the early morning showers. I slammed my door shut‚ taking in a deep breath after being in my grandmother’s car for an hour and a half. Her car always smelt of cigarettes and plastic
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