Language Use in Commercials URL for an ad on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4UZ3vmQ54 Jack In the Box Commercial for a Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich The Jack in the Box ad was aired nationwide in the United States to highlight the addition of the classic Philly Cheesesteak to their already diverse menu. Jack in the Box uses a number of stereotypical features of Philadelphian and Mid Atlantic English to portray characteristics of the people of Philadelphia that they believe will help
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performance. A speaker’s linguistic competence is that part of his knowledge - his knowledge of the language-system as such - by virtue of which he is able to produce the indefinitely large set of sentences that constitutes his language (in Chomsky’s definition of a language as a set of sentences. Performance‚ on the other hand‚ is language-behaviour; and this is said to be determined‚ not only by the speaker’s linguistic competence‚ but also by a variety of non-linguistic factors including‚ on the
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The cognitive linguistics is the foundation for the new accents in the comprehension of language. These accents give some opportunities for the study of the interaction between human mind and cognitive processes. The cognitive linguistics is the separate direction of the linguistics that is characterized by the language as the general cognitive mechanism and cognitive instrument located in the center of the science. The central problem of the cognitive linguistics is represented by the construction
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Chapter 12 Theories and Schools of Modern linguistics Introduction The Prague School • Introduction • Phonology& Phonological Oppositions • Functional Sentence Perspective(FSP) The London School • Malinowski’s theories • Firth’s theories • Halliday & Systemic-Functional Grammar American Structuralism • Early Period: Boas & Sapir Bloomfield’s Theory • Post- Bloomfieldian Linguistics Transformational- Generative Grammar • The innateness hypothesis • What Is a generative grammar • The Classical
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Topics: 1. PHONETICS AS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS We begin our study of language by examining the inventory‚ structure and functions of the speech sounds. This branch of linguistics is called phonetics. Phonetics (pronounced /fəˈnɛtɪks/‚ from the Greek: φωνή‚ phōnē‚ ’sound‚ voice’) is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech‚ or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.[1] It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs
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Today What is Linguistics? Descriptive vs. Prescriptive rules/grammars Linguistic competence vs. performance Readings: 1.2-1.3 LING 200 -- McGarrity 1 What is Linguistics? The scientific study and analysis of human language. LING 200 -- McGarrity 2 Core Subfields Phonetics: the study of the physical properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics) and how they are made (articulatory phonetics) e.g.‚ Park the car in Harvard yard. [p k k n h v d j d] [p a k d k a n ha v d ja d
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branch of applied linguistics that involves compiling‚ writing‚ or editing dictionaries Dictionary is a book that lists the words of a language usually in alphabetical order‚ gives their meanings or equivalent words in a different language. Divided into 2 big groups- encyclopaedic and linguistic. Types of dictionaries * Encyclopedic dictionary- scientific reference books dealing with every branch of knowledge or with 1 particular branch that give info about extra linguistic world‚ deal with
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APPLIED LINGUISTICS GUY COOK CHAPTER 5 SUMMARY This chapter is organized into four sections: “Knowing a language‚ Linguistic competence‚ Communicative competence‚ and The influence of communicative competence”. “Knowing a language”‚ gives an overview of the main questions related to knowing a language. The author reminds us the grammar-translation language teaching method mentioned in the previous chapter‚ Chapter 4. He points out that knowing the grammar and vocaabulary is crucial but being able
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References: Abdul Jalil Jassim Hejal (2006) Stylistics : A contact between Linguistics and Literary Criticism. J. of Col. of Basic Education. Pdf. Web. Retrieved from: http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=69572 Eifring‚ Halvor & Theil‚ Rolf (2005). Linguistics for Students of Asian and African Languages. Pdf. Web. Retrieved from : http://www.uio.no/ Fairly‚ Irene R. (1979). "Experimental Approaches to Language in
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The university of Tripoli The English department Postgraduate program The fall semester 2012 Course in Contrastive analysis A research on what is Contrastive analysis Extracted by Abo-ajela.M. Attamimi Academically supervised by Dr. Habeeb Alramaash Table of contents 1- What is Contrastive Analysis? Page 3 2- Types of Contrastive analysis Page 4-5 3- History and development
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