Language and power 1 Power is gained in many ways throughout the text. Text I has been written‚ primarily‚ to persuade an audience to share their (bwag) views on the new Sainsburys being built in their “medieval heritage” town of Bishops Waltham‚ therefore it is aimed at residents of the town who are old enough to write a valid letter of complaint – age 18-70. Firstly‚ imperatives are used to be assertive right from the beginning of the text. The word “write” in “write a letter today” immediately
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AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH Lexical and grammatical differences LEXICAL DIFFERENCES • Vocab – most noticeable differences • Differ in: – total meaning OR – in one particular sense of usage OR – totally unknown in some varieties REASONS FOR VOCABULARY DIFFERENCES i) New objects & experiences encountered in N. America - new names – adapt or neulogism (i.e. create new word‚ expression or usage) e.g. corn (US); maize (UK) robin small red-breasted (Eng.) large red-breasted (US)
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This is how to get the best result. You let the berries dry in the sun till all moisture has gone of them. Then you gather them and chop them very fine. (Halliday and Hasan‚ 1976: 17) In this example‚ the demonstrative pronoun “this” is used to refer to the whole next two sentences. It should be noted that cataphoric reference does not always contribute to cohesion as the anaphoric does. The second type of cohesive devices suggested by Halliday and Hasan is substitution. A substitution is used
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___ history of the Philippines was at first written by Americans. Ab) Thec) And) None of the above Because Mario couldn‘t find ___ wallet‚ he borrowed money from his colleague. a) herb) himc) hisd) its Choose the letter that has the correct noun complement of the sentence below. I know that you would weep gently in your bliss. I knowb) you would weepc) gently ind) in your bliss What letter possesses the correct use of verb form.Lumnay seems having a problem. c) Lumnay seems to have
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ng mga bagay na gustong gusto mong gawin ay tinatawag na GAWI‚at ang magagandang gawi na ito ay madalas na ginagawa at ito ay nakaaloob sa moral na batas.Ito ay nagiging BIRTUD.ang birtudna nakaaloob dito ang siyang kinakailangan uang maisagawa ang isang gawain na kaakibat ng resonsabilidad. IN: –preposition 1. (used to indicate inclusion within space‚ a place‚ or limits): walking in the park. 2. (used to indicate inclusion within something
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austronesian languages: SVO - high continuity yield low morphosyntactic complexity‚ and that low continuity yields high morphosyntactic complexity discourse units: - Tomlin (attention-driven episodic/paragraph model) "Individuals will use full nouns on first mention after an episode boundary...and...pronouns to sustain reference during an episode" information packaging - strong order condition on types of information - Mithun (1987) general tendency to put the most "newsworthy" item first
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The eight parts of speech: such a key component of language‚ yet such a complicated piece of my learning career. Out of all eight of the parts of speech‚ the verb‚ the noun‚ the pronoun‚ the adjective‚ the adverb‚ the preposition‚ the conjunction‚ and the interjection‚ the ones that I remember the most are the verb and the noun. I am not quite sure how such basic ideas of language can be so complicated to actually explain. My previous days of schooling were definitely not the most challenging
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most important part of a sentence‚ but verbs aren’t always easy to spot. Consider the word swim in the sentences The ducks swim in the pond and The ducks love to swim. In the first sentence‚ swim is the verb. In the second sentence‚ swim is part of a noun phrase. (To swim is the thing that the ducks love.) So how do we spot verbs? A verb is what conveys the essential meaning of a clause (a string of words that convey an idea). Every idea requires a verb. The sentence The ducks swim in the pond says
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apart from others. Replacing suffixes with vowels is a good example of this. “Afternoon” becomes “arvo”‚ names like “Barry” becomes “Bazza” and by replacing the last element with an ‘-o’‚ the adjective “povo” has undergone a word class shift from the noun “poverty”. Popular culture has also
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15. Polysyndeton is the use of a conjunction between each word‚ phrase‚ or clause‚ and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of polysyndeton‚ however‚ often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity‚ energetic enumeration‚ and building up. * They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked. Use polysyndeton to show an attempt to encompass something complex: * The water‚ like a witch’s oils‚ / Burnt green
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