Following direction is a fundamental skill‚ taught from an early age. While it may seem logical and even straightforward to follow directions--be they navigational directions‚ product-usage directions‚ or procedural or instructional directions‚ failure to follow directions can be a waste of time. Other times‚ though‚ failure to follow directions can be harmful or even fatal. Product Safety Not following the directions on a bottle of medication can lead to poisoning‚ overdosing‚ or clashes with other
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ELL204/05 Society and Language (A) Four Dimensions of Sociolinguistic by Holmes (2008) Believe it or not? since the earth start until now‚ people talk ‚ people communicate for transfer their information or convey their feeling to other . Languages play an important role in this process of transfer. Every day we speak‚ but sometime we will say the same thing in different way .What makes us use the different way to speak? In fact‚ these are some factor that will cause us to change
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Spoken Language Language is an integral part of our society; it uses a series of systems to convey meaning‚ thus setting up a discourse community. The surrounding environment plays a major role in our language as a social practice. Language is a form of communication involving an organized system of symbols whether written‚ spoken or pictures. Language is purposeful‚ built on shared conventions‚ shaped by the context and constitutes texts of various sorts and " language is the source of human
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-249 Pragmatics 2:3.235 InternationalPragmatics Association LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY: ISSUES AND APPROACHES Kathrvn A. Woolard 1. Introduction This special issue of hagmarl ’cs derives from a day-long symposium on "l^anguage Ideology: Practice and Theory" held at the annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Chicago‚November 1991.1 The organizing premise of the symposiumwas that languageideologyis a mediating link between social structuresand forms of talk‚ if such static imagery
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individuals and governments are concerned about language diversity as an increasing number of reports have demonstrated a considerable decrease in the number of languages during the last few centuries (Romaine‚ 2007). Additionally‚ the future of many languages is also dismal. As a consequence‚ whether or not to protect endangered languages is a quite controversial issue at present. This essay will discuss both advantages and disadvantages of preserving languages‚ which are quite essential for governments
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Southeast Asian Languages by Xia Lee Southeast Asia‚ a term used since World War II‚ consists of the regions south of China and east of India which includes Thailand‚ Laos‚ Vietnam‚ Kampuchea (Cambodia)‚ Burma‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines and Singapore. Between these countries‚ their languages differ tremendously even though some scholars have suggested that all the different languages are related to the Indo-Pacific Family. Approximately one thousand unintelligible languages are spoken in
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State of Indigenous languages in Australia - 2001 by Patrick McConvell Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Nicholas Thieberger The University of Melbourne November 2001 Australia: State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series No. 2 (Natural and Cultural Heritage) Environment Australia‚ part of the Department of the Environment and Heritage © Commonwealth of Australia 2001 This work is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole or in
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advertisements‚ especially the advertising language‚ and advertising language is different from any other kinds of language. Advertising language is very specific that lots of weasel words are used in advertising language‚ and advertising language are always very simple; these features can be illustrated by an advertisement that I found in a magazine. Different from any other kinds of language‚ weasel words are very useful and important in advertising language. In the article “With These Words I Can
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adults to falter in their learning. This is the reason ESL beginners are a real joy to instruct and can make your job as a teacher so fulfilling. It’s crazy if you think that when kids are motivated and interested they could retain around 80% of a language lesson - this places them miles in front of the majority of adults! Here are a couple of ideas to ensure that you’re giving kids the most appealing learning experience possible and getting the most reward out of your time with them as you can:
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by the language he or she uses. In an essay of not more than 400 words‚ discuss with reference to the characteristics and salient features of DIALECT‚ SOCIOLECT and IDIOLECT. Linguists commonly use language variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language‚ including dialect‚ idiolect and social dialect. The use of the word variety refer to those different forms that avoid the use of the term language‚ which many people associate only with the standard language‚ and the
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