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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Literary Translation as a Creative Act Literary translation implies the translation of all genres of literature‚ which include prose‚ drama and poetry. Literature is described as ’an apparently nebulous body of knowledge in oral or written form‚ an imitation of life‚ which reflects civilization and culture‚ and which covers every angle of human activities-culture‚ tradition‚ entertainment‚ information among others.’ It is one of the great creative and universal means of communicating the emotional
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Heruela‚ Christine Mae O. BSMA-4 13 Muslim Ethno Linguistic Groups 1. Maguindanao Maguindanao originally means "people of flooded plain." The name Maguindanao was also named after the Sultanate or dynasty that ruled the area for several years. People living in the Pulangi area‚ located in what are now North Cotabato‚ Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao Provinces. Cultural communities within this region also include the Tituray‚ T’boli and the Manobos. 2. Maranao Maranao means
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language “do” for us? Understand linguistic nationalism‚ language revitalization‚ and the examples given. 2) Differentiate between symbols and signals. 3) Who or what is Chantek and why is this important? 4) What are the component pieces of language (sounds‚ rules)? 5) How do anthropologists study languages? Contrast descriptive linguistics with historical linguistics. 6) Understand Language Determinism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) and Linguistic Relativity (language reflects‚ rather that
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Linguistic diversity in society and a society’s system of social stratification goes in hands in hands. The more ethnic or diverse language‚ the less that it is valued by society. The less Europeans sounding language the less “civilized” the group is perceived by society. This occur even within a culture‚ for example in Haiti the standard language is French even though the majority of the country speak creole. In Haiti‚ French is viewed as if you are educated and if you are fluent in French then
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neurolinguistics and perception and how language is changed through strokes Medical studies of how diseases are categorized and treated Archaeology “glottochronology” and “lexicostatistics”: how languages are related based on their shared vocabulary linguistic archaeology: how particular languages change over time‚ such as North American Indian Languages The archaeology of symbolic forms and categories Ethnohistory To do with how people conceive one another; how they’re language relates one another
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The Speech Community Peter L. Patrick Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom Email: patrickp@essex.ac.uk http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/ This article will appear in JK Chambers‚ P Trudgill & N Schilling-Estes (eds.)‚ Handbook of language variation and change. Oxford: Blackwell. ABSTRACT: empirical linguistics‚ is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history
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Question #19: What is meant by Inflection? Illustrate. Assuming my definition does not define inflections found in one particular language‚ and instead be defined in general terms (associated within all languages affected)‚ the word inflection in linguistics is an adjustment made to stem (in the form of a prefix‚ suffix‚ infix‚ etc.) to clarify: how many‚ to which gender an object belongs‚ when an event has taken place‚ in which tense the 3rd person (singular) has acted‚ mood‚ voice‚ and also in the
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language-acquisition device. l. Statistical learning – infant brain has innate capacity to statistically analyze language; this ability seems to be present only in the first few years of life Language Influences Thinking m. Linguistic
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records for life ways and environmental adaptations * Linguistics * The modern scientific study of all aspects of language * Perhaps the most distinctive feature of being human‚ as language‚ enabled by physiological adaptations‚ has transmitted culture across generations and enabled abstract thought for more than 40‚000 years * Includes historical linguistics‚ descriptive linguistics‚ ethno linguistics‚ and sociolinguistics * Cultural Anthropology
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