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    bady language

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    BODY LANGUAGE Body language is a form of non-verbal communication consisting of body pose‚ gestures‚ and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals subconsciously. Body language may provide clues as to the attitude or state of mind of a person. For example‚ it may indicate aggression‚ attentiveness‚ boredom‚ relaxed state‚ pleasure‚ amusement and intoxication among many other clues. WHY BODY LANGUAGE IS IMPORTANT? Body language; Can effect how people think of you‚ Can reveal

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    Language is essential

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    Sociology 101 Language is essential Humans have an innate capacity for language and it ’s quite remarkable. Ever wonder how you learned how to talk‚ or how you transitioned from "goo-goo gaga" to "please pass the potatoes?" Turns out that we are born with a mental module called the language acquisition device which allows us to be open to languages of our culture. While we are just babies‚ our parents are talking and carrying on about their business and we are listening intently

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    Germanic languages

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    GERMANIC LANGUAGES Classification of Modern Germanic Languages and their Distribution Classification of languages means their placement into families or phyla [‘failə] on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may thus be classified either genetically or typologically. A genetic classification assumes that certain languages are related in that they have evolved from a common ancestral language. This form of classification employs ancient records as well

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    Reflection on Language

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    Charlemagne said: “to have another language is to possess a second soul”. Language is common to all people and each in its own context. It links us all together and defines us as individuals. It can be a source of a great power and influence. Born and living in Lebanon‚ I have acquired Arabic as my native language. Like any other country‚ the Arabic language in Lebanon differs from region to another which is defined ad dialect. Coming from an urban region‚ mine is the most common one even

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    Okonkwo And Umuofia

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    Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart‚ we learn that nineteenth-century Europeans alter Igbo society by bringing in new institutions like religion‚ the change of culture‚ and political structures. European colonization threatens almost every aspect of the Umuofia people’s society‚ from the individual status to government. Political systems in European culture are formed on the basis of class systems‚ whereas the Igbo tribe rules based on seniority. Since the Europeans know little of Umuofia’s way of

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    Tamil Language

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    It is said that “Before the birth of stones and sand‚ brave tamil man was born”. It portrays the heritage of tamil language. It is the oldest Dravidian language ‚along with Chinese‚ Greek‚ Sanskrit and others. It is one of the world’s classical languages. All south indian language belong to single indian group known as the family of tamil language. Tamil Nadu is the main land of tamil speaking people. More than 8 crore tamils live in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. The first book of

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    Nwoye Imperialism

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    Brown and Revered Smith) tried many ways to convert the Igbo people to Christianity. They used the fact that they could inhabit the ’ Evil Forest’ were it was said they should die. They appealed to the “osu”‚ the outcasts of society‚ and were told that they were different than the other men‚ that they had worth

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    see that Okonkwo was raised into the Igbo belief system and cultural practices which are very different from today’s modern world. As the story goes on there are many happenings and situations that we question about because its not something we consider normal unlike the Igbo society does. The narrator wants us to understand that their beliefs and culture is a daily lifestyle and is their type of nature. The narrator wants us to feel as if we are in one of the Igbo people shoes and to play along in

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    Agglutinating languages

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    Agglutinative language Jump to: navigation‚ search Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alignment Accusative Ergative Split ergative Philippine Active–stative Tripartite Marked nominative Inverse marking Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object Verb–object–subject OV languages Subject–object–verb Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject V2 word

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    Endangered Languages

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    Endangered Languages CONOR MCDONOUGH QUINN Languages that are threatened with the loss of natural generational transmission are referred to as endangered languages. Language endangerment generally occurs in the later stages of language shift‚ that is‚ when a speech community moves away from their earlier variety‚ dialect‚ or language to a new one or new set thereof (Fishman‚ 1991). While the processes of endangerment and extinction have likely been constant throughout the history of human language‚ the

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