Posture and Gestures Posture In humans‚ posture can provide important nonverbal communication. Posture deals with: how the body is positioned in relation to another person or group of persons (for example‚ leaning stance‚ posture‚ standing‚ sitting‚ etc.) and how they are positioned relative to each other various body parts (eg leg imposed on the leg‚ hand in pocket‚ etc.) physique‚ that is how the body looks like (for example‚ whether it is large‚ has a broad back‚ weak legs‚ large head
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UNIVERSITY OF DANANG 2 The study has been completed at the College of Foreign Languages‚ University of Danang LƯƠNG TH H NG CHI Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. LƯU QUÝ KHƯƠNG AN INVESTIGATION INTO MORPHOLOGICAL‚ SEMANTIC AND CULTURAL FEATURES OF SLANG IN ENGLISH HIP HOP SONGS Field Code : The English Language : 60.22.15 Examiner 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ngô Đình Phương Examiner 2: H Th Ki u Oanh‚ Ph. D. The thesis was be orally defended at the Examining Committee Time: October 2012 Venue: University
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When I was younger there were many slang words I use to say. Slang words were used basically every time I opened my mouth. Slang words were a part of my vocabulary. Some of the slang words for example were‚ Aiight‚ yall‚ fasho and whats popping. These words were mainly used around close friends. When you greet someone you say to them “whats popping.” Also when you’re talking about more than one person‚ that’s when you use the slang word “yall.” The other two slang words can be used for the same thing
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Internet slang is becoming a daily language. This has both merits and drawbacks. To focus on its influence on language‚ internet slang has invited split views on its influence on the standard of language use in non-computer-mediated communications. On one hand‚ internet slang is believed to have a negative influence on the future of language‚ and that it would lead to a degradation of standard. Some would even attribute any declination of standard formal English to the increase in usage of electronic
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“Insignificant Gestures” Insignificant Gestures is a short story written by an author named Jo Cannon. It is a story about a young doctor who is stationed in Africa where he tells about all the horror he experienced. At his time in Africa he relates to his servant‚ Celia‚ a young African girl‚ who as the doctor shares a common love for drawing. After returning from Africa‚ the narrator retrained as a psychiatrist. “I never wanted to smell blood again. Or the sweet nail-varnish odour of starvation
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Ancient Gesture¡¨ by Edna St. Vincent Millay and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ by Donald Finkel. The poets use the legend of Ulysses as the background of the poems. The rhyming schemes are very obvious in the poems and they create fluent to the reader. The poets use allusions and style differently but they use the style to reveal the theme. Although ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ allude to the story of Ulysses‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay and Donald Finkel use allusion differently. ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ was
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Insignificant gestures “If I could peel back time‚ I would do things differently. But you don’t get second chances”- insignificant gestures (ll. 11-12). One wrong decision can haunt your mind for life – especially those decisions you take at a life-threatening point. These wrong decisions can be the cause of a long-term damage like Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and because of the emotional consequences; it can change our lives and personalities completely. That is the main theme in Jo Cannon’s
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Gestures and Cultures For regular people who travel at the first time to a foreign country‚ it would be difficult to communicate in gestures. You may say humans share the same gestures‚ so they can understand each other; however‚ they may understand gestures but unfortunately with the false meaning. They would misunderstand you since they have other meanings for gestures. Therefore‚ gestures are the same as languages. They are different from culture to another. First‚ to hold two fingers like
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Group paper of Anthropological Linguistic Lecturer: -Hj. Murni Mahmud‚ M. Hum‚ Ph.D. ANALYSIS OF THE USING SLANG LANGUAGE (BAD WORDS) IN MAKASSAR SOCIETY BY MOHAMMAD ASLAMMUDDIN (085214015) TRI WULANDARI (085214017) IHRAM CHARLY (105214017) ENGLISH LITERATURE FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR 2012 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background Language is a tool of communication. We can send information by communicate it. A communication can be a
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Non-verbal Communication: Filipino Style Not all cultural gestures are unique; some gestures may be the same with other cultures. However‚ there are certain gestures that we can identify as very Filipino. As I observed the people around me‚ there are a few gestures that I noticed that I was not even aware that we do but actually do quite often. I come to realize that conversations and situations would be bland without these gestures that we have become accustomed to one way or another. Nothing
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