Body language is a part of nonverbal language. It includes things such as stance‚ gestures‚ facial expressions‚ and even small things that are barely perceptible like a brief shrug of the shoulder or a nod of the head. It is easily confused sometimes when we speak what we are actually saying‚ because your body language maybe saying something different. This is why it is specifically important in the medical field to have complete control and understanding of what we are saying with our body language
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Language Planning: Nature and Goals 1. INTRODUCTION Using the definition of language planning from Coulmas (2005: 186) which reads thus; “Language planning involves making informed choices about language…” as a point of departure‚ this essay will attempt to firstly provide a thorough definition of the notion of language planning‚ as well as explain the relation between language planning and language policy. Secondly‚ this essay will define and discuss ideological language planning and normative
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Literature review. The search for better ways to teach languages has been underway for centuries and with some historical perspective we can analyse that each development should be assessed individually. Traditional forms of teaching and syllabus design concentrated more on the teacher playing a central role in the classroom‚ teaching also focused much more on form rather than meaning and there was a great importance given to testing and assessments. Nowadays teaching and syllabus design concentrates
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Reinat First semester 2012-2013 Languages in Ghana Introduction There have been linguistic studies prepared in order to understand the functions of multilingual countries. Ghana‚ being one of these multilingual countries‚ is very complex and complicated with many linguistic intricacies. It is also a highly multilingual country‚ with approximately fifty intelligible languages. Since the country is culturally and linguistically divided into two parts‚ Ghanaian languages are also divided into two subfamilies:
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Vernacular Language Vernacular language is the native language of a specific population during the Middle Ages. Latin and French were the most commonly used for literature. The general population did not have the ability to read or write. Mainly‚ the only people who learned how to read and write were the wealthy and upper class citizens. Eventually the general population learned to read and write using their own language or in other words vernacular. Origins Most of the vernacular languages branched
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Language and Identity First of all‚ Identity is the belief as “who we are and how we are” which we all have as individuals and it is based on many fundamental factors such as Ethnic group‚ Racial‚ National‚ Gendered‚ Social Class‚ Language‚ Sexual and Religious. As it is clear that identity has many essentials and it is not made of just one fact but has something to do with many‚ I will focus on the relationship especially between language and identity in this paper. The
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POLITICAL LANGUAGE Language is the life blood of politics. Political power struggles‚ and the legitimisation of political policies and authorities occurs primarily through discourse and verbal representations. Power can either be exercised through coercion or what US commentator Walter Lippman termed in the 1930s the manufacture of consent. Largely unable‚ and hopefully unwilling‚ to coerce; political authorities in so called democratic polities often need to manufacture consent in order to
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Candace Lubben Professor Kristen Heine WRA 125 Section 006 October 5‚ 2012 Language & Gender Language is a very powerful element. When we talk about language we refer to it as a body of words and the systems we use to communicate with people who are of the same community or nation‚ the same geographical area‚ or the same cultural traditions. Many factors can affect language such as: age‚ ethnicity‚ social class‚ education‚ and gender. Gender will be the main topic that I analyze in this
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Accounting is often referred to as the language of business. It is a special-purpose tool for communication about the financial statements and the performance of a company. This can happen through written‚ natural language by selecting words from a standard vocabulary combining them in meaningful ways. These words are then organised into financial reports according to relatively flexible rules of presentation. Accounting dates back to 1494 when Luca Pacioli published a book called Summa de Arithmetic
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When looking at the language used by a poet when creating a poem it is important we do this with a number of things in mind. What kind of image is the poet attempting to create in our thoughts? When was this poem created? How is it structured and punctuated? What context has it been written? and also how does the poet want us to feel when reading the work? No matter how long or short a poem may be the language used when creating it will be vital as to deciding how we respond to the poem. It is not
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