English as a second language textbooks1 JEAN WONG Abstract This article examines telephone dialogues in English as a second language (ESL) textbooks against the backdrop of what is reported about real telephone interaction in conversation analysis research. An analysis of eight textbooks reveals that the fit between what conversation analysts say about natural telephone conversation and the examples found in textbooks is unsatisfactory. Elements such as summon–answer‚ identification‚ greeting‚ and how-are-you
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дружбы народов Институт иностранных языков Направление: лингвистика Stylistic analysis of Chapter II The Postumous papers of the Pickwick club Charles Dickens. Булатовой Анасиасии‚ 402ЛД Москва 2009 The passage is an extract from Dickens’ novel “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club” from the chapter II which originally was called “The First Day’s
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of cyber language has become a focus of attention. In this paper‚ under the theory of modern stylistics‚ the stylistic features of cyber language and its causes were discussed from vocabulary and grammatical levels. The author has demonstrated some lexical features of cyber language with a number of examples. Then‚ in the second part‚ the grammatical features have been discussed. And the third part is about the causes of these stylistic features. 1.1 Background of the Present Study From 1990s
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oduct Part I. Intrion General Notes on Style and Stylistics 9 Expressive Means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SD) 25 General Notes on Functional Styles of Language 32 Varieties of Language 35 Brief Outline of the Development of the English Literary (Standard) language 41 Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View 57 Part II. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary General Considerations 70 Neutral‚ Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary 72 Special Literary Vocabulary
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If you look back through the past sixty years of fashion‚ you may notice a pattern. People may say that the true years of fashion began in the late nineteen forties and went on through the early nineteen sixties. If you look at fashion today‚ its almost repeated the look from sixty years ago. In each generation fashion trends become based on history and/or important events. in the nineteen forties fashion was being modeled by the military wear. World War II caused a drastic change in the way clothes
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MB0041/MBABF –Financial and Management Accounting Assignment Q3. Draw the Balance Sheet for the following information provided by Sarawath Ltd.. a. Current Ratio : 2.50 b. Liquidity Ratio : 1.50 c. Net Working Capital : Rs.300000 d. Stock Turnover Ratio : 6 times e. Ratio of Gross Profit to Sales : 20% f. Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio : 2 times g. Average Debt collection period : 2 months h. Fixed Assets to Net Worth : 0.80 i. Reserve and Surplus to Capital : 0.50 | Balance Sheet Liabilities
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Stylistic Analysis Of The Advertising Slogan ---------Perfume Introduction Along with the rapid development of society and economy‚ advertisements have penetrated into every stratum of the society‚ becoming the indispensable part of our daily life. Like newspapers‚ magazines‚ television‚ radio‚ films‚ telephone directory‚ art performance‚ the Internet‚ and even the human body‚ advertising makes use of various media to deliver information to the consumer
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UNIT 60 1.1 DESCRIBE THE BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS OF ENGAGING IN LEARNING OR DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. The benefits will be as follows: - Apart from the benefits of being able to do something or knowing about something‚ learning or development activities can have many benefits for the person including physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social benefits‚ otherwise known as PIES. Physical Benefits: - Physical inactivity is a major risk for developing coronary artery disease. It also contributes
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A Stylistic Analysis on the Nightingale and the Rose Abstract Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose‚ similar to other Oscar Wilde’s short stories‚ is written in an aesthetic voice. Throughout the story‚ Oscar Wilde employs various stylistic devices for the expression of aesthetic concept. In order to show how Oscar Wilde engross readers in this incredible story through stylistics analysis‚ this paper firstly presents an overview of stylistics based on the textbook English Stylistics
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propaganda tool for the west. At this time‚ it lessened tensions between the two Cold War foes. At one point before the wall‚ the two sides pointed tanks at each other in the streets of Berlin. John Kennedy visited the wall and let the Berliners know the free world stood with them. In 1962‚ the United States caught the Soviet Union building nuclear installations on Cuba. President Kennedy ordered a blockade. The world stood on the cliff of annihilation. At this time Robert Kennedy worked to secure a
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