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    Body Language

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    Five Mistakes People Make Reading Body Language – And Five Nonverbal Signals That Send Positive Messages This is one of a series of occasional papers by The Dilenschneider Group to bring clients and friends a different perspective. We hope you find it of interest. FIVE Mistakes People Make Reading Body Language – and FIVE Nonverbal Signals that Send Positive Messages Carol Kinsey Goman‚ Ph.D. B ody language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second

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    The student’s data Transcript between my friend (S) and me (E) E: uhhm (3) well (1) I’m looking *forward+ (filler – first of many – um‚well‚ like!) S: *what (.) maybe+ (2) don’t turn away when you’re talking (2) E: Whaju-mean? S: (1) well (.) yeah ‘cause it won’t pick up your voice (.) *so easily+ E: *oh OK (.)+ yeah (2) well it’s just hard to (3) um (.) I’m just gonna put thee (.) um (.) piece of paper over it (write about ‘thee’ – filler) S: Oh I wouldn’t do that (.) cause it

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    Religious language

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    problem of religious language Religious language is the communication ideas about God‚ faith‚ belief and practise. The problem with the communication of these ideas is that behind the words used are concepts. Individuals have different understandings of the concepts and this might result in differences of interpretation and meaning. Some philosophers argue that religious language is used in different ways from everyday language. Cognitive: when applied to religious language‚ this communicates knowledge

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    Ambiguous Language

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    Ambiguous Language “Natural vernaculars contain a variety of "logical operators" which interact with each other to give rise to different types of ambiguity” (Hurum 1988). Ambiguous language refers to language that may have conflicting or totally separate meanings that can sometimes be confusing. Ambiguities in language often go unnoticed mainly because of the words that surround them giving them their proper meaning. In the English language there are so many that they cannot even be counted.

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    Language Acquisition

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    …………………………………………......……..… 3 Main body 1. Language acquisition ………………………….….….......… 4 2. The stages of language acquisition ……………....…......….. 5 2.1. The prelinguistic stage ……….….........…...........… 7 2.2. Babbling ………………………........…...........…… 7 2.3. One-word utterances ……………..…....…...........… 9 2.4. Two-word utterances ……………..............…..….... 10 2.5. Telegraphic speech …………………........…...…… 13 2.6. Language learning during the pre-school period ….. 16

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    With detailed reference to Text H and to relevant ideas from language study‚ explore how written language is used to assert power Text H is a poster which displays the rules and information to students taking or entering an exam. It also is for the use of the invigilators‚ to inform them of the rules as well as the candidates. This poster will be shown right across the country to students preparing to take an exam. This is done to make sure there is regularity and equality everywhere‚ so that

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    Language and Dialect

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    Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion (JACFEE): Reliability data and cross-national differences. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior‚ 21‚ 3–21. Buck‚ R. (1984). The communication of emotion. New York: Guilford Press. Buhler‚ K. (1934). Sprachtheorie [Language theory.] Jena‚ Germany: ¨ Fischer. Burquest‚ D. A.‚ & Payne‚ D. L. (1993). Phonological analysis: A functional approach. Dallas‚ TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Camras‚ L. A.‚ Oster‚ H.‚ Campos‚ J. J.‚ Miyake‚ K.‚ & Bradshaw. (1997). Japanese

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    Programming Languages

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    Programming Languages Development Programming languages are vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks (Online). These languages have developed over a period of time and they were developed for specific purposes which other languages could not full fill. ADA Gasperani (2012:2) postulates that the US Department of Defense was the sponsor of Ada’s design in the 70s and was behind its adoption in the 80s. He further explains that this was developed

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    C Language

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    programming language (often‚ just "C") is a general-purpose‚ procedural‚ imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. It has since spread to many other operating systems‚ and is now one of the most widely used programming languages. C also has had a great influence on many other popular languages‚[1] especially [[C++]] which was originally designed as an enhancement to C. It is the most commonly used programming language for

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    Financial Analysis of Reflect Corporation and Tranquility Inc. Reflect Corporation (R. Corp.) and Tranquility Inc. (T. Inc.) are two companies that applied for a loan from us recently. In order to assess the risk of granting the loans‚ I analyzed both companies’ financial situations. This paper attempts to analyze the financial ratios of the two companies based on their financial statements‚ and thus we can determine which company is better able to pay the loan in time so that the risk of our

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