While reading The Poisonwood Bible‚ I was fascinated by Kingsolver’s extensive use of Lingala‚ the language used in the region of the Congo where the Price family lives. Lingala is a language in which each word has several meanings‚ and Kingsolver has the characters in the story use language to reflect themselves. Kingsolver also masterfully wields words to connote subtle ideas throughout the novel. Throughout the novel are sprinkled many phrases in Lingala‚ phrases that are eventually learned or
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Neuro Linguistic Programming The program took on techniques on how to use unconventional methods of communication as a venue for concise message transmission. - The use of "Eye Cues"‚ in determining the dominant sense of a person. (This is somewhat similar with DISC Mapping‚ although NLP does not really require a questionaire to determine the behaviour / personality). 1. VISUAL - Represents a person to be catering to images. A visual person tends to respond more when presented with pictures
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Book Review: An Introduction to Sytemic Functional Linguistics‚2nd Edition An introduction to systemic functional linguistics‚ 2nd edition‚ is an updated overview of the concepts and methods of linguistic analysis in the framework developed by M.A.K. Halliday. The book introduces the concepts and demonstrates how the techniques of systemic functional linguistic theory can be applied to the analysis of texts. Written in ascending order‚ the book begins with the general understanding of language
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Example of A grade linguistic analysis paragraph. AS English Language As a practice sample I have selected an extract of spoke discourse and transcribed it to illustrate the style of my investigation. I have extracted a sentence of spoken discourse by from a transcript where the teacher is the main speaker. “I’d like you to add that to your mind maps” The extract of spoken discourse displays a variety of linguistic features and accommodates a variety of sociolinguistic theories in conjunction
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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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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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Student Number: 11032901 Module Code: PC5003 Kousta‚ S.-T.‚ Vinson‚ D. P.‚ & Vigliocco‚ G. (2008). Investigating linguistic relativity through bilingualism: The case of grammatical gender. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning‚ Memory‚ and Cognition‚ 34 (4)‚ 843-858. Language is the expression of feelings‚ thoughts‚ ideas and experience through the use of sounds or symbols (Goldstein‚ 2011). Whether we “think in language” or whether language shapes our thoughts is still a matter of
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