several issues and concerns raised by the author. The two concepts are mimicry and othering. Mimicry is best annotated through the main character‚ Vickramadas in the short story. He aspired to be an Englishman. He imitated the dress‚ manners and language of the whites. The othering is expressed through some characters‚ Miss da Gama and Miss Cunningham‚ who assumed that they were
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his tales. As shown through the BBC article‚ "Victorian word expert F Max Muller estimated that Shakespeare used 15‚000 words in his plays‚ a portion of which he invented himself by merging existing words and anglicizing vocabulary from foreign languages..." (Doc A). Shakespeare mastered a skill that all songwriters and music artists must utilize: the manipulation of words. A 60 minutes segment on Eminem shows how he‚ and other musicians‚ manipulate the syllables and sounds of words‚ as well as using
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any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second language. It
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English 101 3/21/14 Me‚ Myself‚ and I One of the few things that I and most people do on a regular basis‚ is speak multiple languages. From day to day conversations with family‚ friends‚ and coworkers we speak multiple languages and we don’t even realizing it. Now I am not saying that everyone starts there day off speaking English and transitions into Spanish followed by Italian. I mean the way we speak from person to person is different and that difference is like a different language. Some
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Different Cultures Prose GCSE English Controlled Assessment and Extended Literary text GCSE English Language Controlled Assessment exemplar The GCSE English folder Reading requirement includes work on a Different Cultures prose text chosen from the GCSE English Literature Different Cultures set text list. The generic task specifies that the essay must be on either character or theme. The GCSE English Language Reading requirement is an essay on an Extended Literary prose or drama text based either
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it’s thinking of yourself less. Humility is the quality of being modest‚ respectful‚ and lacking pretence‚ but is often misunderstood as being meek. A while ago‚ somebody mentioned to me that "windowsill" was voted the most beautiful word in the English language. What many people don’t realise is that words have enormous power. They can make us erupt into laughter or bring tears to our eyes. They can influence‚ inspire‚ manipulate and shock. They can build and destroy. Some words have different effects
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Globalization and Language Globalization is the process of something becoming global‚ being transformed from a local or regional phenomena into a global one. With globalization‚ there is a movement of people coming together‚ unifying into a single society and functioning together. This process is not only an economic one‚ but also affects the technologies‚ politics‚ and cultures of the entire world. It is facilitated by the media of communications. Through radio and satellite information‚ we
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Comparison on Chinese CLIL with European CLIL Abstract: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)‚ regarded as an “umbrella” term to dual-focused education where content is learnt through an additional language‚ is widely implemented in Europe. This paper mainly focuses on the theoretical bases of CLIL implementation‚ its implementation in Chinese context and its shortages compared with Europe. The whole essay includes three parts: the introduction‚ the body and the conclusion
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Introduction The article under discussion is written by … who is a … and has written book on similar topics such as ….. the author is very well versed in the this field and the primary focus of her research is the use of language in day to day setting and the effect of gender‚ age and on and so forth. The article takes into account the argument regarding how our classrooms have effect the learning in males and females and why does this difference occur. [author] talks about how different peer groups
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dozen major languages of its own. One language‚ and only one‚ is understood-by an elite-across the country: that of the foreigners who ruled it for less than 200 years and left 52 years ago. After 1947‚ English had to share its official status with north India’s Hindi and was due to lose it in 1965. It did not happen: Southern India said no. 2 Today‚ India. Tomorrow‚ unofficially‚ the world. [fhe spread of English] is well under way; at first‚ because the British not only built a global empire but
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