How does linguistic variation cue representations of a speaker’s social identity and‚ presumably‚ stereotypes about relevant social groups? Although studies have indicated that phonetic variation in speech may activate social stereotypes (Purnell‚ Idsardi & Baugh‚ 1999)‚ research on the mechanisms of this process has been scant. The term “stereotype” was introduced into the variations of sociolinguistic literature in Labov’s (1973) taxonomy of language forms charged with broad social meaning‚ reprised
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Linguistic Battle of the Sexes “American men tend to talk more than women in public situations‚ they often talk less at home” (Tannen). Even though it sounds unreal‚ this is a large problem when it comes to communication between men and women‚ whether it is their cultures‚ or society‚ but they have different impressions of communication‚ which have been created since their childhood. Deborah Tannen‚ in her article “Sex‚ Lies and Conversation” compares the styles of conversations on both men and
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“Psychology as a Science” & “Free Will and Determinism” (Applied to Pro and Anti Social Behaviour) This essay will look to analyse and evaluate two of the major debates in psychology. In the first half of the essay the question ‘Is psychology a science?’ will be discussed and arguments for and against will be looked at. In the second part of the essay the debate ‘Free Will versus Determinism’ will be discussed and applied to Pro and Anti Social Behaviour. Psychology‚ according to Gross (2009:4)
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Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts language structures. • Basically‚ this means that Halliday defines stylistics as: “The linguistic analysis of literary texts.” What is involved in stylistic analysis? 1. A literary text is looked at as made of language 2. A literary text is seen to consist of patterns and properties which are part of language 3. Those patterns of language
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Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language‚ or literacy
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Christa Bennett Atwood does a fantastic job of incorporating color symbolism throughout The Handmaid’s Tale. One of the main colors she uses to push her plot forward is the color red. When you think of the color red what do you think of... love‚ rage‚ anger‚ power‚ Communism... maybe blood. In the book The Handmaid’s Tale‚ red is the color of the handmaids. The Handmaids always wear long red habits if you will; that covers their whole body. “The skirt is ankle-length‚ full‚ gathered to a flat
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History of historical linguistics Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of philology‚ the study of ancient texts and documents‚ which goes back to antiquity. At first historical linguistics was comparative linguistics and mainly concerned with establishing language families and the reconstruction of prehistoric proto-languages‚ using the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The focus was on the well-known Indo-European
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destiny and the decisions made in each of our lives? Some philosophers believe it’s free will others believe its determinism‚ but most agree that these two beliefs are incompatible and cannot occur together. I believe that free will and determinism happen together and that’s what makes us feel as if we are choosing to do things freely throughout our lives. Thomas Nagel defined determinism as “the sum total of a person’s experiences‚ desires‚ and knowledge‚ his hereditary constitution‚ the social circumstances
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Soft Determinism Stace’s theory of compatibilism has to deal with free will and its consistency with determinism. Soft determinism is the thought that coherent humans should be held responsible for their actions if those actions were voluntary. Actions can be both free and determined while still having the ability to be held as morally responsible. Hard determinism on the other hand states that every action is caused therefore making a person unable to be held responsible for anything they
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LINGUISTICS: Language Learning Final Project Report STYLE SHIFTING Topic This research report focuses on studying style-shifting in everyday language. It must be noted that the focus is solely on monolingual style shifting and not on bilingual code-shifting. Although some of the characteristics may be the same‚ the two are very different aspects of language in that style-shifting refers to changes in the type of language‚ such as casual or formal‚ that people speak whereas bilingual code-shifting
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