Communicative Body The focal point of this past year‚ 2012‚ has been the presidential election. After twelve months of being bombarded with every and all types of political advertisements‚ debates‚ and analysis it brings to mind a single question: just how do the presidential candidates use the power of communication‚ through its many forms‚ to connect and gain the votes of the constituents? It may seem as though there is a straight forward answer to this particular question‚ and to a point
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Cultural Gaps in Linguistic Communication with Reference to English and Arabic Language Communities Ekbal AlJabbari‚ Alaeddin Sadeq‚ and Jamal Azmi Department of English Language and Translation‚ Zarqa University‚ Jordan Abstract: Since each culture has its own unique identity‚ there is often a problem of communication gaps. Cultural communication gaps are crucial issues that influence all types of communication all over the world. These gaps are often the underlying reason for major misunderstandings
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Aplicada Juliana Castañeda González Quang‚ V. D. (2007). Critical Applied Linguistics: Concerns and Domains. In this article‚ Vo Dai Quang’s objective is to understand what is Critical Applied Linguistics (CAL) and to do so‚ he lists some concerns and questions that can bring a closer understanding of what critical applied linguistics means. Quang’s concerns have to do with: “the scope and coverage of applied linguistics‚” “the notion of praxis as a way of going beyond a dichotomous relation
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Tongue Twister: to Bridge the Gap between Teaching Linguistics and Teaching Literature by: Novalita Fransisca Tungka Jakobson’s poetic function of a language is the biggest contribution to the field of language and literature. Poetic function enables linguists and literary scholars to analyze the function of language and elements of literature within poetry. That is to say‚ poetic function bridges the gap between linguistics and literature. Two axes proposed by Jakobson as the core of poetic
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Does the perceptual process help the individual to see the outside world as it really is? And if so‚ is the awareness of reality the main function of this process? According to many psychologists‚ sociologists and scientists the perceptual process is an important influential factor to the awareness of the reality. To them‚ it is essential for individuals to step outside their own world to see the actual world as it really is. However‚ others think people are influenced by different kinds of stimuli
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THE LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN ESSAYS MADE BY EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Teguh Budiharso Abstract: Linguistic features of English and Indonesian essays made by EFL (English as Foreign Language) undergraduate students were analyzed by using content analysis. The objective was to identify the similarities and differences in sentence complexity‚ grammar‚ and mechanics of the essays. Errors in the forms of incomplete sentences‚ run-on and stringy sentences were found as well
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Regional accents show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This reading provided an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation‚ deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect‚ of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Dialects of English have unique features in pronunciation‚ vocabulary‚ and grammar. I have learned that the term "accent"
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science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance‚ there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title‚ “Science and Linguistics‚” nor the magazine‚ M.I.T.’s Technology Review‚ was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author‚ a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted as an anthropology lecturer at Yale University‚ was an unlikely candidate
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Essay 1 topic: Using the concept of a ’world view ’‚ identify some of the beliefs and attitudes‚ particularly to education and learning that you bring to your learning now. Reflect critically on how your worldview has been shaped by factors such as your gender‚ age or community. In your answer refer to Hobson (1996) and Samovar and Porter (2004) from the SSK12 Reader‚ and Chapter 1 in A Guide to Learning Independently (Marshall and Rowland‚ 2006‚ 1-18). Student Essay
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In this essay I hope to explain my understanding of what a worldview is and how specific beliefs that I have‚ have been shaped in regards to my education and learning. I strongly believe that the majority of the views and beliefs that I have developed‚ to do with education and learning and even beyond that realm‚ currently and in the future‚ have been because of my family and the upbringing I received and will inturn assist me in my education and learning. Every person has a different way of
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