translation. Key words: translation ambiguity – polysemy problems – ambiguous and unambiguous texts – qualitative and quantitative – semantic ambiguity . Introduction Ambiguity is a pervasive phenomenon in language which occurs at all levels of linguistic Analysis. Out of context‚ words have multiple sense and syntactic categories‚ requiring Listeners to determine which meaning and part of speech was intended. Morphemes may also be ambiguous out of context ‚ as in English. Phonological forms are
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lingual conditions in which children are raised to be able to speak two languages equally well should be also taken into consideration. Many linguists underline that while introducing the second language to learner‚ his/her exposure to a given linguistic system is crucial. Thusly‚ parents striving for teaching their children a secod language/a non-native language often rely on commercial language materials such as books‚ videos‚ television programs‚ etc. Nevertheless‚ researchers (Kendall King and
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(1887-1949) is one of the most prominent American linguists of the first half of the twentieth century he was a major influence in the shift of linguistics from comparative study of languages to the description of the structure of languages in the 20th century. Bloomfield established the school of thought that has come to be known as American structural linguistics‚ which
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does 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
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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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corrected later on. The teacher develops all four linguistic capabilities (reading‚ writing‚ listening and speaking). To improve pronunciation the teacher uses drills‚ where students repeat automatically the phrases spoken by the teacher. The teacher helps the student personalize the use of grammatical and lexical elements used in class. The teacher understands that a didactic program has to include not only grammar and lexis‚ but also linguistic functions‚ colloquialisms‚ idioms‚ etc. The teacher
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There are four main fields of anthropology: biological anthropology‚ cultural anthropology‚ archaeology‚ and linguistics. Anthropologists tend to specialize in one of the four main fields but must be familiar with the other fields because they are all closely related to one another. First‚ biological anthropology deals with the study of humans as living organisms. In other words‚ people on this field might study human growth‚ anatomy‚ human ancestors‚ and genetics. Second is cultural anthropology
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1.Discourse Studies in Modern Linguistics 1.1Discourse .Discourse has been defined by different linguists ‚and each one gives specific definition to it ‚and we will go through all of them . In other words discourse is a buzzword and used in many different ways. The term discourse refers “both to what a text producer meant by a text and what a text means to the receiver” (Widdowson 2007: 7). As Widdowson claims‚ “people produce texts to get a message across‚ to express ideas and beliefs‚ to explain
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STORY BOOK : A FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING ENGLISH Agnes Widyaningrum‚ SE‚ M.Pd Abstract Indonesian children are born as bilingual even multilingual children because Indonesia is a rich country having many different cultures. As one of cultural products‚ language can be learnt through various ways‚ one example is by reading children storybook. Language use is always socially and culturally situated. Learning English is a process of tranforming linguistics entities into knowledge
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style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia ’s guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (October 2010) | Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics‚ but has no autonomous domain of its own.[1][2] The preferred object of stylistic studies is literature‚ but not exclusively "high literature" but also other forms of written texts such as text from the domains
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