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    LANGUAGE ESSAY

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    by the language he or she uses. In an essay of not more than 400 words‚ discuss with reference to the characteristics and salient features of DIALECT‚ SOCIOLECT and IDIOLECT. Linguists commonly use language variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language‚ including dialect‚ idiolect and social dialect. The use of the word variety refer to those different forms that avoid the use of the term language‚ which many people associate only with the standard language‚ and the

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    Body Language

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    they were saying "Yes" yet their heads were shaking "No"? The difference between the words people speak and our understanding of what they are saying comes from non-verbal communication‚ otherwise known as "body language." By developing your awareness of the signs and signals of body language‚ you can more easily understand other people‚ and more effectively communicate with them. There are sometimes subtle – and sometimes not so subtle – movements‚ gestures‚ facial expressions and even shifts in our

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    Arabic Language

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    Science Of Sarf .................................................................................................... 22 The Science Of Arabic Grammar ............................................................................... 23 Map Of The Arabic Language ..................................................................................... 26 Parts Of Speech .......................................................................................................... 27 Definitions Of ‫( اسم‬ism)‚ ‫(

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    Language and Gender

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    Spoken Language Language is an integral part of our society; it uses a series of systems to convey meaning‚ thus setting up a discourse community. The surrounding environment plays a major role in our language as a social practice. Language is a form of communication involving an organized system of symbols whether written‚ spoken or pictures. Language is purposeful‚ built on shared conventions‚ shaped by the context and constitutes texts of various sorts and "…language is the source of human

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    POLITICAL LANGUAGE Language is the life blood of politics. Political power struggles‚ and the legitimisation of political policies and authorities occurs primarily through discourse and verbal representations. Power can either be exercised through coercion or what US commentator Walter Lippman termed in the 1930s the manufacture of consent. Largely unable‚ and hopefully unwilling‚ to coerce; political authorities in so called democratic polities often need to manufacture consent in order to

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    world. Consumer society is characterization used to explain a society that is defined by the way individuals acquire goods‚ how they use them and the disposal of these goods. (Hethering‚ 2009‚ p.33). Consumption comprises of individual that acquire goods for personal use and those that acquire for manufacturing and resale. However Social Scientist comes in to try and analyse consumer behaviour when acquiring these goods. The question now is whether the consumer society is a divided society. Some view

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    the promotional strategies advertising takes‚ language is the main carrier of message all along‚ as The Language of Advertising‚ by Vestergaard & Schroder‚ says‚ “Advertising takes many forms‚ but in most of them language is of crucial importance.” Advertising language is a style of immediate impact and rapid persuasion. The use of English in advertising is a global phenomenon. As Ingrid Piller points out‚“English is the most frequently used language in advertising messages in non-Englishspeaking

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    Language Essay

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    Marquise Long Understanding the importance of language An American author named Oliver Wendell Holmes once stated‚ “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” This quote‚ itself describes the importance of language as it embraces “growth” as an aspect of it. Language‚ which is a method of communication used by humans‚ allows for innovation and progress within the world. For starters‚ communication is important because

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    Linguistics and Language

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    the goals are to understand how people acquire language‚ how people use language to speak and understand one another‚ and how language is represented and processed in the brain. Psycholinguistics is primarily a sub-discipline of psychology and linguistics‚ but it is also related to developmental psychology‚ cognitive psychology‚ neurolinguistics‚ and speech science (Fernandez: 2011). Ø Psycholinguistics examines the psychology of language; psycholinguistics is the name given to the study

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    Silent Language

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    [pic] Edward T. Hall “The Silent Language” [pic] Skopje‚ 2010 Edward T. Hall was born in Webster Groves‚ Missouri. He has taught at the University of Denver‚ Colorado‚ Bennington College in Vermont‚Harvard Business School‚ Illinois Institute of Technology‚ Northwestern University in Illinois and others. The foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space was laid during World War II when he served in the U.S. Army in Europe and the Philippines. From 1933 through

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