A hip-hop pioneer and savvy business mogul by the name of Russell Simmons believed that Hip-hop "speaks for the people who live in the worst economic straits since the Great Depression" (Life and Def: Sex‚ Drugs‚ Money‚ + God 26). A scholar by the name of Cornell West also believed hip-hop speaks for those that live in the ghetto‚ that it is a protest (Reese‚ 1998). Hip-hop is an expression. The hardened attitude that the boy who sits behind you in film class has‚ the slang you here kids yell at
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Linguistic Anthropology Ever since I was seven years old‚ I’ve wanted to be a writer; more specifically‚ a poet. I think for my chosen profession‚ linguistic anthropology would benefit me better than any other field of anthropology. According to the Department of Anthropology of California State University‚ “Linguistic anthropologists are interested in how many languages there are‚ how those languages are distributed across the world‚ and their contemporary and historical relationships. We
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done. And if at the end the new form is now used instead of the old one it means it has already completed the change. That ’s called fait accompli ’. The changes spread depending on the social factors such as gender‚ status‚ age‚ region‚ etc. "Linguistic changes infiltrate groups from the speech of people on the margins between social or regional groups via the middle ’ people who have contact in more than one group" (Holmes 218) this is called change from group to group‚ and it determines that
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Mukachevo State University Report Text linguistics Prepared by Kamenkova Nastia 2014 Text Linguistics A text is an extended structure of syntactic units i.e. text as super-sentence such as words‚ groups‚ and clauses and textual units that is marked by both coherence among the elements and completion .A non-text consists of random sequences of linguistic units such as sentences‚ paragraphs‚ or sections in any temporal and/or spatial extension. A naturally
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Phonetic Symbols and Conventions The conventions for presenting examples used in this book are widely utilised in linguistics‚ but it will be helpful to state the more important of these for any readers unfamiliar with them. Most linguistic examples are given in italics and their glosses (translations into English) are presented in single quotes‚ for example: Finnish rengas ’ring’. In instances where it is necessary to make the phonetic form clear‚ the phonetic representation is presented in square
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Chapter 4: Linguistic Typology Chapter 4 Linguistic typology 4.1 Introduction Simply speaking‚ the study of universals is concerned with what human languages have in common‚ while the study of typology deals with ways in which languages differ from each other. This contrast‚ however‚ is not sharp. When languages differ from each other‚ the variation is not random‚ but subject to limitations. Linguistic typology is not only concerned with variation‚ but also with the limitations on the degree
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1 Linguistics and sociolinguistics It is difficult to see adequately the functions of language‚ because it is so deeply rooted in the whole of human behaviour that it may be suspected that there is little in the functional side of our conscious behaviour in which language does not play its part. Sapir (1933) Language is a complicated business. In everyday talk‚ we use the word ‘language’ in many different ways. It isn’t clear how ‘language’ should be defined or what the person on the street thinks
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Few words about the author Born William Sidney Porter‚ this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name "O. Henry." He was born September 11‚ 1862 in North Carolina‚ where he spent his childhood. O. Henry’s stories are famous for their surprise endings‚ to the point that such an ending is often referred to as an "O. Henry ending." He was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings‚ but O. Henry stories were much more playful and optimistic
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Structuralism Structuralism is a mode of thinking and a method of analysis practiced in 20th-century social sciences and humanities; it focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behaviour it seeks to analyse social relationships in terms of highly abstract relational structures. Structuralism is distinctly different from that applied to Radcliffe-Brown it involves more the bio and psychological aspect of human studies rather than social structures. Claude Levi-Strauss was the one to pioneer
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UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FALCUTY OF POST- GRADUATE [pic] FINAL ASSIGNMENT Subject: APPLIED LINGUISTICS Topic 5: DISCUSS SOME OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNER’S ACHIEVEMENT IN SECOND/ FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING Lecturer: Dr. Hoàng Văn Vân Learner : Nguyễn Thị Huyên
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