Bibliography: Brown G. and Yule‚ G. (1983) Discourse analysis. Cambridge: CUP. Danesi‚ M. (2004) A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. House‚ J. (2010) “Impoliteness in Germany” Intercultural Pragmatics Vol.7 No. 4 PP 561–595. Keller‚ E. and Warner‚ S. (1976) Gambits 1‚ 2‚ 3. Ottawa: Public Service. ----------------- (1988) Conversation Gambits: Real English conversation Practices. Hove: Language Teaching Publications
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Linguistic Slavery of India and Black Money Posted on June 25‚ 2012 by gshah In this article‚ we shall discuss about how the absurd obsession that Indians have for English language‚ is responsible for the sheer poverty and lack of development in India and also lack of creativity among majority of Indians and how the eradication of India’s Black economy will help in solving this problem. The Politics Series 1. How is Black money responsible for Terrorism and crime 2. America is rich because of
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WA1: Linguistic Oppression It only takes a few minutes to call someone out. But by changing and challenging this normalized language‚ you can actively work against behaviors and ideologies that are racist‚ sexist‚ homophobic‚ transphobic‚ elitist‚ ablist‚ sizist and overall‚ oppressive. Language oppression is any word that uses an identity or an identifier of belonging to a certain group (class‚ race‚ sexuality‚ ability‚ gender‚ etc.) as a negative or undesirable quality. It ’s a form of verbal
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Spanglish is a well-known term that describes the linguistic behaviors on Spanish speakers‚ who’s Spanish is uniquely influenced from the English language. Spanglish can also be defined as a “mixed-code vernacular that includes a range of linguistic phenomena‚ most notably code-switching”. Despite the fact that Puerto Rican linguist‚ Salvador Tio‚ coined the term ‘Spanglish’ in the late 1940’s‚ this language contact phenomena has actually been used over the past 150 years‚ since the Treaty of Guadalupe
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1 Linguistics and sociolinguistics It is difficult to see adequately the functions of language‚ because it is so deeply rooted in the whole of human behaviour that it may be suspected that there is little in the functional side of our conscious behaviour in which language does not play its part. Sapir (1933) Language is a complicated business. In everyday talk‚ we use the word ‘language’ in many different ways. It isn’t clear how ‘language’ should be defined or what the person on the street thinks
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John Baugh in his article “Linguistic Profiling” (2003) discusses “linguistic discrimination based on speech or writing” (2003‚ p. 155). The article discusses the negative and positive effects that linguistic profiling has on people‚ specifically on the people with an “undesirable accent or dialect” (2003‚ p.155). Much like racial profiling and its negative effects on people of color‚ linguistic profiling is the practice of imposing certain social characteristics on people who speak with a particular
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A. DEFENCE OF HARD DETERMINISM Hard Determinism argues that every event is causally determined. For an event ‘A’ to occur casually means that there are antecedent causes that ensure the occurrence of ‘A’ in accordance with impersonal‚ mechanical causal laws. To clarify hard determinism further‚ let me present hard determinism as an argument. Basically hard determinism argues that: (a) Determinism is true (b) Determinism is incompatible with free will (Holbach‚ 451). In defense of premise (a)‚ the
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UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FALCUTY OF POST- GRADUATE [pic] FINAL ASSIGNMENT Subject: APPLIED LINGUISTICS Topic 5: DISCUSS SOME OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNER’S ACHIEVEMENT IN SECOND/ FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING Lecturer: Dr. Hoàng Văn Vân Learner : Nguyễn Thị Huyên
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Linguistic Segregation Draft 3 Throughout the history of the United States‚ the issues of racism‚ sexism and segregation have always been stressful because of all the immigration. When it came to the education of immigrant children who did not speak English and stood out otherwise‚ we often did not know what to do. We have always been striving to eliminate these prejudices‚ and even though we recovered from most types of segregation‚ we are still trying to eliminate the problem of language differences
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2. 4. Readers get the impression that this new society is still in the settling-in period by having Alma‚ Janine‚ Dolores‚ Moria‚ and June are in training to becoming Handmaids (4). Offered mentions that the quote that is mentioned in question fourteen for section one. Offred mentioned that she learned to whisper and touch each other’s hands across space (4). Offred also mentions that the first time that she meets the Commander’s wife was five weeks ago when Offred first arrived at this posting
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