Brian McCluskey “Emblematic of the period‚ Theodore Roosevelt asserted in 1919:’We have room for but one language here‚ and that is the English language‚ for we intend to see that the crucible turns out people as Americans and now as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house’ (Daniels‚8). The question that has been around for hundreds of years: “Should English be declared the official language of the United States?” is still the controversy – refighting the same old sociolinguistic issue of the
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Reading‚ Writing & Spoken Communication – Language Centre – University of Helsinki | | | 20.03.2013 | | The article represents a part of a research about English multi-word expressions and their translation equivalents in other languages. The research was important for different tasks such as language learning‚ translation‚ automatic multilingual lexicon etc. The article is a short review of English phrasal verbs and their translations to Russian and Finnish. English phrasal verbs
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Lee Chung lin 9934812 Professor Shih Translation Projects 28 June 2011 Ideological Influence on Satire Translation: Comparison on Two Chinese Translations of Animal Farm by Taiwanese and Chinese Translators Chapter One: Introduction In cultural turn‚ translation studies jump out of the equivalence between the source text and target text but started to investigate more about the nonlinguistic factors influences the translation process. Amongst these studies‚ ideological influences have
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Accounting is often referred to as the language of business. It is a special-purpose tool for communication about the financial statements and the performance of a company. This can happen through written‚ natural language by selecting words from a standard vocabulary combining them in meaningful ways. These words are then organised into financial reports according to relatively flexible rules of presentation. Accounting dates back to 1494 when Luca Pacioli published a book called Summa de Arithmetic
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“Endangered languages should be saved” Many languages are at the danger of disappearance. The reason of their extinction could be the decrease in a number of people speaking that language. A 85% of 6000 languages appear to be spoken in 25 countries (NOW 2000). Language extinction is caused by external and internal factors. Internal forces such as community’s negative behaviour to mother language‚ or simply decrease in the number of speakers are mainly derived from factors such as military‚ economic
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Vernacular Language Vernacular language is the native language of a specific population during the Middle Ages. Latin and French were the most commonly used for literature. The general population did not have the ability to read or write. Mainly‚ the only people who learned how to read and write were the wealthy and upper class citizens. Eventually the general population learned to read and write using their own language or in other words vernacular. Origins Most of the vernacular languages branched
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Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber’s professional relationship was far from peripheral. Dating back to 1974‚ Mulroney and Schreiber have been friends‚ associates and eventually business partners. Initially‚ Montreal lawyer and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney impressed Schreiber at the Progressive Conservative leadership convention in Ottawa. Thereafter‚ Schreiber infused about $30‚000 into Mulroney’s Tory campaign only to be defeated by rival PC leader Joe Clark. Their affiliation did not
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Brian Doyle focuses on how a heart is mesmerizing in various ways in his essay “Joyas Volardoras.” However‚ he also shows that a heart is vulnerable to the simplest things in everyday life. He expresses both of these points by having a different outlook on the hearts of hummingbirds‚ whales‚ and humans. Doyle informs us that a hummingbird’s heart is small in size but it is full of strength. Their heart allows them to fly hundreds of miles nonstop and dive sixty miles an hour. Hummingbirds also
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In Brian de Palma’s interpretation of the movie Carrie‚ Carrie White is the protagonist who experiences child abuse from her demented‚ religion obsessed mother along with being the social outcast in her community. The movie explores the innate differences between male and female emotion and how it motivates aggression. The audience is forced to rationalize the destruction of a whole community from the perspective of a woman instead of a man‚ who are mainly objectified throughout the film. From the
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INTERCULTURAL JOURNAL JINFA LIN 02.04.2014 1. Intercultural biography Being studying and living in UK about three years‚ experienced the different culture‚ lifestyle and the way you communicate with people between UK and China. Cross-culture communication describes the ability to successfully form‚ foster‚ and improve relationships with members of a culture different from one’s own. It is based on knowledge of many factors‚ such as the other
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