Using integrated linguistic and literary approaches compare how sibling relationships are presented in King Lear and The Godfather. In both King Lear and The Godfather‚ sibling relationships are presented as volatile such as when Regan and Goneril temporarily collaborate to take Lear’s power but become obsessed with the competition for Edmund’s love and the camaraderie ends abruptly‚ while the Corleone siblings look out for each other and think family should come before business. King Lear is
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How does Shakespeare use linguistic and dramatic devices to introduce the character of Hamlet in Act 1? Hamlet is first introduced in Act 1Scene 2 by Claudius; “But now my cousin Hamlet‚ and my son - ” There is the use of a dramatic hyphen which emphasises the significance of the entrance of Hamlet‚ as well as the use of a paraprosdokian sentence which surprises the audience and potentially causes them to try and reinterpret what has been said. Claudius’ sentence could also be interpreted as a
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Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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Scott Fitzgerald‚ ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy and ‘If I Could Tell You’ by W. H. Auden. Within each text the poet or author uses structural and linguistic devices to tell the story and also outline the importance of the message given in a key event. In ‘The Great Gatsby’ an effective event to portray structural and linguistic devices is that of Chapter 2. Within this chapter Fitzgerald demonstrates the difference of worlds‚ superficiality and description of characterisation and setting
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Conversation Analysis & Discourse Analysis tive Compara A a odu ritical Intr nd C ction Robin Wooffitt Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis A Comparative and Critical Introduction Robin Wooffitt SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi © Robin Wooffitt 2005 First published 2005 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study‚ or criticism or review‚ as permitted under the Copyright
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Contrastive analysis Volker Gast 1 Introduction Narrowly defined‚ contrastive analysis investigates the differences between pairs (or small sets) of languages against the background of similarities and with the purpose of providing input to applied disciplines such as foreign language teaching and translation studies. With its largely descriptive focus contrastive linguistics provides an interface between theory and application. It makes use of theoretical findings and models of language
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“Applying” conversation analysis in applied linguistics: Evaluating dialogue in English as a second language textbooks1 JEAN WONG Abstract This article examines telephone dialogues in English as a second language (ESL) textbooks against the backdrop of what is reported about real telephone interaction in conversation analysis research. An analysis of eight textbooks reveals that the fit between what conversation analysts say about natural telephone conversation and the examples found in textbooks
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organisational structures‚ socio- cultural constituents‚ psychological and affective composition and diversity in individual learning styles mingle and interplay with an altered input. This paper will examine four assumptions supporting the FLA hypothesis propagated by Slobin‚ followed by a critical analysis of each one’s availability or the lack of it‚ to the learners of second language‚ referring to relevant linguistic theories. Arguing against the innatist linguistic theory‚ proposed by Noam Chomsky
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Gravimetric Analysis CHEM 200-03 Fall Semester 2012 September 19‚ 2012 Jeff Marasigan Abstract Gravimetric analysis is based on the quantitative isolation of the desired constituent the analyte of interest from the sample in highly pure form or in some combined form and weighing the isolated constituent. The desired constituent is usually isolated or separated by precipitation. From the weights of sample and precipitate‚ the percentage of the constituent in the original sample can
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4CursSemantica Componential Analysis Classical structuralism 0. Preliminaries From previous study‚ it is known that linguistic analysis proceeds level by level‚ specifying in each case: the primitives of the level‚ the combinatorial operations and rules‚ and finally a representation of the utterance on that level. In the particular case of the semantic level‚ one must specify: a) the sense components ‚ the constructional rules for building complex meaning out of the more elementary
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