Analysis of Euphemism from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle [Abstract]: Euphemism plays an important role in our daily interaction with others. Appropriate use of euphemism guarantees smooth communication between speakers. Likewise‚ the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle also ensure efficient and successful communication among people. However‚ it is notable that the actual use of euphemisms violates the Cooperative Principle while observing the Politeness
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Plan Introduction………………………………………………………………………...….4 Part I. Lexico-Semantic Characteristics of different types of borrowed elements in English 1.1. the definition of the term "borrowed word"……………………..………………..6 1.2. the semantic features of types of borrowed elements in English…………………9 1.2.1. translation loans.……………………………………………………………….10 1.2.2. semantic loans…………………………………………………………………11 1.2.3. etymological doublets………………………………………………………….12 1.2.3.4. hybrids……………………………………………………………………….15 1.2
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A STUDY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE “FAT AND THIN” BY: ANTON CHEKHOV CATTLEYA JADE A. JAVERLE AGUSAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BUTUAN CITY FEBRUARY 2011 A STUDY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE “FAT AND THIN” BY: ANTON CHEKHOV A TERM PAPER SUBMITTED TO: ZITA B. DURAN MT II / SPA – COORDINATOR IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT IN ENGLISH IV SUBMITTED BY: CATTLEYA JADE
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Content words/Function words Henry Sweet in his famous grammar of 1891 (p.22)‚ writes: "In a sentence such as The earth is round‚ we have no difficulty in recognizing earth and round as ultimate independent sense-units ... Such words as the and is‚ on the other hand‚ though independent in form‚ are not independent in meaning: the and is by themselves do not convey any ideas‚ as earth and round do. We call such words as the and is form-words‚ because they are words in form only. When a form-word
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1. INTRODUCTION As learning an additional language is regarded as being competitive and advantageous‚ there are more and more bilinguals and multilinguals in many places worldwide‚ and Hong Kong is one of these places. With a majority of the population being able to master a number of languages‚ code-switching‚ which is the alternate use of (more than) two languages by a bilingual (or multilingual) within a discourse‚ is undoubtedly a common and frequently occurring linguistic phenomenon in
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Why psychology? know yourself figure other ppl out manipulate others Psychology – scientific study of behavior and mental processes Science that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it‚ and the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems Key ideas -science -behavior and internal processes -application -level of analysis Great debates in psychology * free will determinism To what extent do we
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The role of dialect representation in speaking from the margins: "The Lesson" of Toni Cade Bambara by Katy M. Wright "What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t in on it? Where we are is who we are‚ Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don’t necessarily have to be that way‚ she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and don’t none of us know what kind of pie she talking about in the first damn place."
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CONTENT Introduction …………………………………………………………………………3 1 Borrowings as a way of upgrading vocabulary 1.1. The notion‚ causes and ways of borrowings………………………….............5 1.2. The types of borrowings……………………………………………………….8 1.3. Classification of borrowings according to the borrowed aspect and degree of assimilation…………………………………………………………………………...12 1.4. The borrowing process as the reflection of cultural contacts …………………...14 2 Analysis of Russian borrowings based on the examples from monolingual dictionaries
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syntax. According to this description‚ syntax deals with the distribution of words (i.e word forms) and morphology with their internal grammatical structure. [Lyons‚ 1981: 103]. Lado (1964: 218) stipulates that “morphology is a description of the morphemes of a language and the patterns of formation of words”. The study of the morphology of a language comprises two parts. The first deals with the realization of grammatical categories‚ systems or meanings by mean of inflection and the second deals
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Chapter 3: The Sounds of English. Consonants and Vowels. An Articu-latory Classification and Description. Acoustic Correlates 3.1. Consonants and Vowels. Traditional distinctions. Chomsky and Halle’s SPE definition 3.2. Criteria for consonant classification. Vocal cord vibration. Sonority 3.3. Manner of articulation. Plosives. Fricatives. Affricates 3.4. Sonorants. The Approximants: glides and liquids 3.5. Oral and nasal articulation 3.6. Force of articulation 3.7. Place of articulation 3.8. The
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