Accounting is often referred to as the language of business. It is a special-purpose tool for communication about the financial statements and the performance of a company. This can happen through written‚ natural language by selecting words from a standard vocabulary combining them in meaningful ways. These words are then organised into financial reports according to relatively flexible rules of presentation. Accounting dates back to 1494 when Luca Pacioli published a book called Summa de Arithmetic
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Vernacular Language Vernacular language is the native language of a specific population during the Middle Ages. Latin and French were the most commonly used for literature. The general population did not have the ability to read or write. Mainly‚ the only people who learned how to read and write were the wealthy and upper class citizens. Eventually the general population learned to read and write using their own language or in other words vernacular. Origins Most of the vernacular languages branched
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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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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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we use to fifty years ago so much so that it has almost entirely become another language. During the course of this essay i will be analysing the spoken language between both the liverpodlian teacher‚ student interview and the Lancastrian teenagers’ exchange of ideas by commenting on how they both use linguistic devices such as fillers‚ Standard English‚ modern slang‚ power and dominance; how they adapt their language to suit different situations and exploring why they do so. In the
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Does language shape someone’s perception of the world and therefore their reality? Is our world really shaped by the ways in which one speaks and simultaneously communicates? Absolutely. First impressions almost always come from the way someone speaks‚ the words they choose‚ the dialect or twang of their speech‚ and the tone of their voice. Speech is essential to expression. Doublespeak‚ the negative aspect of how we use language‚ is also a part of this expression‚ because it influences how someone
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Intercultural Communication Studies XIV: 2 2005 Hoffer - Language Borrowing Language Borrowing and the Indices of Adaptability and Receptivity Bates L. Hoffer Trinity University Introduction One of the most easily observable results of intercultural contact and communication is the set of loanwords that is imported into the vocabulary of each language involved. The field of cultures and languages in contact (Weinreich 1953) has grown a great deal over the past fifty years. From the early studies
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Figurative language is language that describes something by comparing it to something else. Figurative language goes beyond the literal meaning of words to describe or explain a subject. There are many types of figurative language‚ including similes‚ metaphors‚ alliteration‚ onomatopoeia‚ imagery‚ personification‚ and hyperbole. Authors use figurative language to help the reader see beyond the written words on the page and to visualize what is going on in the story or poem
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Language Analysis Protect our youth from the marijuana tsunami Jordan Marsh In Diane Carlson’s opinion piece “Protect our youth from the marijuana tsunami”‚ the issue of Colorado legalizing marijuana is raised as catastrophic and that it is giving a false perception of its effect to youth and their development. In a passionate tone Carlson targets parents‚ grandparents and additionally the government of the wrong movement into legalizing marijuana‚ and in doing so challenges the audience
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Language death refers to the process in which a language is endangered of extinction or more likely to become none spoken anymore with-in its existence environment. Although a specific language is considered died as nobody speaks it anymore; it is likely to keep existing in the form of records and documentation‚ however it is therefore considered to be non alive language when there is a lack of fluent speakers and the loss of its written forms. The death of a language mainly occurs due to the
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