SOCIOLINGUISTICS Gender‚ Politeness and Stereotypes a. Woman’s Language and Confidence Some dialectologist argued that women were using language which reinforced their sub-ordinate status. Social dialect research focused on differences between women’s and men’s speech. Robin Lakoff identified a number of linguistic features used more often by women. He suggested that women’s speech was characterized by linguistics features like: o Lexical hedges or fillers (e.g. you know‚ sort of
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Write a paper that explains how history is portrayed in a particular play emphasizing what a certain historical event‚ personage‚ or situation enables the playwright to communicate. Discuss what effect the playwright’s transformation of historical reality has on an audience. Henrik Ibsen’s widely regarded work‚ A Doll’s House‚ was first introduced in 1879 as a theatrical presentation of human rights. Today‚ Ibsen’s work remains as such‚ although often conveyed as more focused on women’s rights
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English: Hinglish and Spanglish. It sounds a little different from the “correct” English‚ but it is highly understandable. It is a great thing because the countries hold on to their traditions‚ yet they are still becoming more international. Norway is a very small country in
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Trudeau once said‚ “I can’t be a rose in any man’s lapel” (“I Can’t Be”). This quote expresses exactly what was going through many women’s minds during the 1800’s in Norway. Women had let their husbands control their lives for ages before the 1800’s. Soon‚ they could no longer stand being the rose in their husbands’ lapel. The women of Norway longed for freedom and began to rebel. Henrik Ibsen’s play‚ A Doll House‚ displays what women were going through during that time. The three act play is about Nora
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style is primarily associated with Denmark‚ both Norway and Sweden designers have contributed to the allure of Scandinavian home furnishings. Some say that the inspiration for the Scandinavian design can be traced to the “elegant curves” of art nouveau from which designers were able to produce aesthetically pleasing‚ structurally strong modern furniture. Danish‚ and the home furnishings produced by the other Scandinavian countries—Sweden‚ Norway‚ and Finland‚ are made using wood (primarily oak
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The Vikings are peoples that were originally from Scandinavia. Scandinavia is now Denmark‚ Norway‚ and Sweden. From the eight to the eleventh century‚ these people originally referred to as Norsemen began to raid places in Europe and other countries they became referred to as Vikings. The name Viking‚ originates from the place Viken in the Oslofjord. The Oslofjord is a bay south-east of Norway. Vikings are known for plundering from other societies. They are usually shown that the whole Viking nation
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The Vikings came from what is known as Sweden‚ Norway‚ and Denmark. During the time from the 8th to the 11th centuries the Vikings traveled in their longboats to the British Isles and the coast of Europe raiding the settlements. These fierce raiders went to Lindisfame off the north coast of England 793. After the raid on the raid on the monastery of Lindisfame they started roaming the English Channel and the North Sea raiding settlements near the sea. They eventually started going up the Rhine
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is the world ’s most frequently performed dramatist after William Shakespeare‚ and the founder of modern theater. He was a Norwegian poet‚ playwright‚ and essayist. He was born March 20‚1828‚ in Skien‚ Norway. He died of complications resulting from a series of strokes‚ May 23‚ 1906‚ in Oslo‚ Norway. He left his school at age fifteen and worked for six years as a pharmacist ’s assistant‚ then Ibsen went to Christiania hoping to continue his studies at Christiania University. He failed the Greek and
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Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House (1879) is set Norway and focuses on the repression of woman. Mrs. Linde confronts and establishes Nora’s complicit acquiesnce to her own repression when Mrs.Linde says “Nora‚ you’re just a child.” Pg.667. This paper will chart Nora’s growth from ignorance to knowledge showing how the nineteenth century society has subjugated and indoctrinated women. Unfortunately in the nineteenth century society women were brought up to act as if they were weak‚ emotional‚ and docile
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Mops The Scandinavion world ond Europe in the eorly Viking Age I Scandinavia in the Viking Age 63 2 Scandinavian settlement in Eneland 83 The making of modern Europe was a slow and laborious business which the historian simplifies at peril. Modern conceptions of national growth and of national types are too easiiy applied to situations in the past where they are distorting‚ anachronistic and positively misleading. To be obsessed with the image of peaceful and peaceJoving Scandinavian farmers
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