East is East is a comedy written by ayub kahn-din‚ it’s set in Salford‚ Manchester‚ the play is set during the 1970s‚ however‚ it was written in 1996. The play addresses the on-going conflict around the country along with the conflict in the Khan family. He loosely based it off his own family when he was growing up and how his dad pushed the Pakistani culture onto his kids well he wasn’t always sticking to his own culture. The types of conflicts that are shown in the play are inter cultural‚ interpersonal
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Explore the ways the relationship between Atticus and Scot is presented in To Kill a Mockingbird. To begin‚ Scout is a lively five year old child. Unlike other people her age‚ she can read well‚ is very clever and is eager to learn. She is innocent and often doesn’t fully understand situations she is placed in. At the begging Scout is a tomboy (possibly write about symbolism in name) who enjoys playing outside with her brother Jem‚ however as the story continues her character develops and changes
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Discuss the presentation of confict in the texts that you have studied In “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens‚ conflict is presented as the outcome of industrialisation‚ material prosperity and a strict utilitarian way of life. In the 1850’s when the novel was written in instalments in ‘Household Words’‚ Victorian England was in the age of reform‚ which was creating new tensions between social classes‚ and creating a new type of ‘master’ represented by characters such as Mr. Gradgrind and more particularly
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Language is a social-cultural-geographical phenomenon. There is a deep relationship between language‚ culture and society. When we study a language‚ we have to study its dialects‚ register‚ slang‚ taboo‚ idiolects‚ etc. We can find the role of language and culture in The Parent Trap movie. The movie tells us about the differences culture of 2 girls who live in London and California. They were separated when they are baby. It was because their parents divorce. One of the
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Terminology 1.Paradox: statement that is self-contradictory on the surface‚ yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless. Ex. whoever loses his life shall find it. 2. Soliloquy/ Aside: A dramatic device used by actors/actress that reveals specific information about themselves and their inner thoughts that are not revealed to the other characters‚ only the audience. 3. Euphemism: Substituting a more favorable word for another‚ which may be a socially delicate term Ex. He’s dead. (Socially indelicate)
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In addressing the issues faced by women in the poem ‘The Ruined Maid’‚ I must consider the conditions of women in Victorian society and more specifically‚ how the writer has represented them. The presentation of Hardy’s female characters‚ especially the fallen women‚ is rather sympathetic. Critic Geoffrey Harvey argues that Hardy’s ‘intelligent and sympathetic portrayal of women is informed by his perception of the inextricable entanglement of gender and class issues’‚ which means that he observes
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speak a common dialect are known as speech communities. No one dialect is better or worse than another‚ each of them uses different lexicons‚ phonologies‚ grammar and syntaxes. In addition‚ each of us uses our own personal symbol system called an idiolect‚ which includes our actives vocabularies and our unique sounds and pronunciation of words. The language has many characteristics‚ one of them it is arbitrary that means‚ the words are used to represent things in any language‚ it is not necessary
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a set of contrasts (an inversion of sentences). Idiolect (I-language: language of the individual): the language system of an individual as expressed by the way he or she speaks or writes within the overall system of a particular language. In a broader sense‚ someone‟s idiolect includes their way of communicating; for example‚ their choice of utterances and the way they interpret the utterances made by others. In a narrower sense‚ an idiolect might entail features‚ either in speech or writing
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Within linguistic theory‚ two extreme positions concerning the relationship between language and thought are commonly referred to as ’mould theories’ and ’cloak theories ’. Mould theories represent language as ’a mould in terms of which thought categories are cast ’ (Bruner et al. 1956‚ p. 11). Cloak theories represent the view that ’language is a cloak conforming to the customary categories of thought of its speakers ’ (ibid.). The doctrine that language is the ’dress of thought ’ was fundamental
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Final Take-Home Exam Language acquisition‚ as its name suggests‚ is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive‚ produce and use a language to communicate and understand. This capacity involves acquiring diverse aspects of language such as syntax‚ phonetics and a vast vocabulary. The process can be further divided into two categories: first language acquisition (FLA) which studies infants’ acquisition of their native language‚ and second language acquisition (SLA) which deals
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