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    Skills of Good Speaking

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    SKILLS OF GOOD SPEAKING If there are images in this attachment‚ they will not be displayed.  Download the original attachment The Skills of Good Speaking The Skills of Good Speaking   • Art of Conversation • Public Speaking • Job Interview Art of Conversation   • Do’s of Conversation • Don’ts of Conversation   Do’s of Conversation   • Listen more than you talk. • Come to an occasion armed with topics at the ready.

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    Six O’Clock News – Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right.

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    memory is vividly retold in the past tense which creates a gap between the reader and the main character. Thus‚ for Bambara‚ the dialect in the story is concurrent with what she would have heard and said in the past‚ for example‚ “...she was black as hell‚ cept for her feet‚ which were fish-white and spooky‚ ” and consist of slang as well profanity. The specific use of jargon‚ misspelled words‚ and even the name of the students‚ establishes the culture and community that Bambara was in. This throughout

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    have different regional accents of English. Some people have positive attitude towards the different regional accents of English. They believe that the way people speak is always changing based on what they hear from their linguistic environment. There are a few scenes in the film where people share what they think about using certain dialects in positive attitude. In one scene‚ there is an African-American woman who is interviewed and asked whether she uses a vernacular dialect or a standard form of

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    VARIETY 2 CHAPTER 1 1.1 ABSTRACT Pakistani English (PE) is the cluster of several English language varieties ‚ that are spoken and written in Pakistan. It is different from British English (BE) in terms of syntax‚ vocabulary ‚ accent and lexis. The pronounciation features are typical of speakers of regional languages ‚ for example the Punjabi speakers have difficulty with sound clusters like “ sp or sk’’ ( McArthur 1998 ). The present research aims to focus on the attitudes of

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    Australian dialect‚ will omit the ’r’ or at least pronounces it silently horse would sound more like hoose. This is similar with a lot of phonetic features of Australian language‚ if the unique characteristics Australian English was really suffering from the integration of Americanisms then wouldn’t our individual dialect also be affected. Maybe a fair few Australians pronounce words like anti more like ant-i but for the majority Australians have hold true to the true blue Aussie dialect. Australian

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    Linguistics and its relation to popular Westernized media has been closely related since the inception of pop culture. The topic of language has not been in question per say‚ but the issue of dialect and how it is incorporated to supplement stock characters in children’s movies and shows‚ has caught the attention of many. How and why do multi-billion industries resort to overly cheesy‚ and sometimes cringe-worthy‚ stereotypes? At a very young age‚ many children are exposed to movies‚ whether

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    environments and also I am going to be explaining the strategies used in health and social care environments to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions. I will be including sensory deprivation‚ foreign language‚ jargonslangdialect‚ acronyms‚ cultural differences‚ distress‚ emotional difficulties‚ health issues and environmental problems‚ misinterpretation of message‚ aggression‚ assertion and how they can be overcome. In order to communicate individuals have to

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    “Above all‚ we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idioms which prescribes egregious collocations of vocables as the Basic put up with for tolerate‚ or put at a loss for bewilder . “ This passage is written by Professor Lancelot Hogben(located on pg. ___ ‚ the second example) This is shown as a prime example of bad writing habits which are identified in George Orwell’s essay. This passage shows examples of dead metaphors‚ the problems with putting implicit words that confuse the

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    absorb such dialect instead of growing up thinking that slang words or shortened sayings are acceptable for example when they are going to interviews for jobs they may in fact be disadvantaged if they were to use sayings such as "I dunno" instead of "I don’t know". I think the head teacher is merely trying to point out that she believes they are not going to get far in life if they use such slang words instead of proper dialect when speaking to professional individuals‚ she is saying that slang to her

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