Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e
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URBAN DESIGN: METHOD AND TECHNIQUES This Page Intentionally Left Blank URBAN DESIGN: METHOD AND TECHNIQUES Cliff Moughtin‚ Rafael Cuesta‚ Christine Sarris and Paola Signoretta OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Architectural Press An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House‚ Jordan Hill‚ Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue‚ Woburn‚ MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc
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London Visual Impairment ForumMinutes and Action points‚ Planning Group EGMFriday 11th November 2011Chair for this meeting : Peter Corbett (PC) (Thomas Pocklington Trust) Vice Chair: Jackie Venus (JV)(VISOR) not presentPresent: Colin Brown(CB) (BIG); Sharon Schaffer (SS)(LVIF) Fran Hibbert (FH) (Merton Vision); Peter Corbett (PC) (Thomas Pocklington Trust) Mike Woolston (MW) (Guide Dogs); John Harris (RLSB)‚ David Newbold (Action) ; Stan Lopes (LB Camden)Apologies: Sue Sharp (SuS0 (RLSB); Sue O’Hara
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REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION One of the most important developments in the world trade system in the 1990s has been the emergence of regional cooperation. The end of the Cold War reduced political tensions between countries in Asia as well as globalizing production processes and increasing vertical integration. Cities like Bangkok‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ and Singapore have been lifting their populations out of poverty in part through cooperative arrangements with neighboring countries. Transnational economic
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REGIONAL AND SOCIAL VARIATION IN BALI BY: I MADE PUTRA WIDIASMARA 1101305047 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT‚ FACULTY OF LETTERS AND CULTURES‚ UDAYANA UNIVERSITY 2014 1. Introduction 1.1 Background "The term sociolinguistics is used generally for the study of the relationship between language and society" (Yule‚ 2006‚ p.205). Sociolinguistics is a branch of applied linguistics which studies the language in relation to social elements; it is the study of relationships between language and social and cultural
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Small companies typically have difficulty competing against large multinationals when their governments take part in regional trade blocs. What could governments do to help their small companies compete after the formation of such blocs? Regional trade blocs are intergovernmental associations that deal with and promote trade activities for specific regions of the world. The small business world has a hard time competing with big business. The business of trading exports and imports is mostly done
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automobile and manufacturing company. It was an aircraft factory before. In 1923‚ first BMW motorcycle was produced. Five years later‚ BMW acquired Essen that Hector car factory‚ and start the production of cars. Now days‚ BMW is famous for its performance and luxury vehicles. To fulfill its social responsibility‚ BMW keep trying to design less-polluting cars to protect the environment. They developed high technologies like electric and hybrid power (Grahl‚ C‚ 2006). All these effort made BMW an
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the first century. Action learning for many organizations has become one of the most powerful action-oriented‚ problem solving tools as well for team approaching in order for them to operate better. With today’s many demands and so little time to focus on a one on one‚ corporations must find ways to get everything together in one session and begin the work in order to survive this world’s new change and be successful. Chapter 2 shows us the six essential elements of effective action learning. In chapter
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“ASEAN on its way to becoming EU as a regional bloc” Countries‚ usually the neighboring ones and those of which are in the same region‚ belong to a bloc. They organize or join these blocs because they have the same aims‚ purposes‚ and interests‚ may it be for economic or political reasons. Participating states are united by a treaty or agreement for mutual support or joint action. Our world has a handful of blocs‚ but two of the most talked about is the European Union‚ better known as EU‚ and
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TUTOR:SANJAY TUTOR:SANJAY REGIONAL CUISINE OF FRENCH Name:crise sTUDENT ID:NS06750 REGIONAL CUISINE OF FRENCH Name:crise sTUDENT ID:NS06750 Directory INTRODUCE 1 History and background 2 Geography 3 4 Culture 5 Change agent
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