a) the investigation of special language means which secure the desirable effect of the utterance(stylistics devices and expressive means) b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the choice and arrangement of language means are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of the communication. (functional styles) Functional styles discusses such general linguistic issues as oral and written varieties of language‚ the notion of the literary (standard) language‚ the constituents of texts larger
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Spoken Language Spoken Language in my opinion follows a different set of rules to written language in this essay I am going to explore the ways spoken language is used by television interviewers. I will be using the political chat show This Week as an example of the spoken language on TV chat shows. This Week is a political and current affairs chat show broadcasted every Thursday night on BBC one. The show is presented by former editor of the Sunday Times Andrew Neil and is accompanied every week
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collocations play an important role in the field of second language acquisition‚ a number of previous studies have reported students‟ lack of collocational competence and the difficulties they encounter in learning and using collocations. The present study examines the productive and receptive knowledge of lexical and grammatical collocations among advanced Arabic-speaking learners of English. Furthermore‚ it investigates whether the language environment (ESL or EFL) has an influence on the acquisition
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Should English Be Our Official Language? Current Language Use in the United States In the United States‚ there are 303 languages other than English that are spoken at home‚ these categories include; Native American languages‚ African languages‚ Chinese‚ other Asian languages‚ Pacific Island languages‚ and Indic languages. According to the US Census‚ in 2007 the number of people five and older who spoke a language other than English at home doubled in the last three decades. English
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Recently a short blog was writen about language inflation that ultimately creates devaluation in meaning. Today‚ popular expressions like epic and brilliant are used to express a more modest meaning than their traditional uses. Brilliant actually means clever‚ and epic actually means surprising. The author explains‚ “Such is our need to imbue our words with force and significance‚ that we use hyperbole to entice people to pay attention – and the hyperbolic terms gradually normalise.” The same
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LANGUAGE VARIATION By Dr SHAMIM ALI ABSTRACT We must realize that language as a "thing" to be studied is necessarily
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In the novel The Giver the people in the community believe that precision of language is a vital part of life and in The Giver‚ language is often distorted and twisted. They distort language as a way to control the community in a way that is discrete and clever. The community proposes different terms to conceal the real meaning and what is actually happening. Thee elders make disturbing and mournful situations‚ seem less meaningful and less disturbing‚ and more normal. The community also has different
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say‚ Go away‚ I ’m looking for the truth‚ ’ and so it goes away. Puzzling." The irony of Robert Pirsig touches on the strange encounter of self-deception. I know the truth and you do not; I intentionally hide the truth from youthis is the lie. But with this understanding of deception‚ how then‚ is self-deception possible? Does one know the truth about something and then‚ simultaneously‚ hide the truth from one ’s self? How could
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[pic] Edward T. Hall “The Silent Language” [pic] Skopje‚ 2010 Edward T. Hall was born in Webster Groves‚ Missouri. He has taught at the University of Denver‚ Colorado‚ Bennington College in Vermont‚Harvard Business School‚ Illinois Institute of Technology‚ Northwestern University in Illinois and others. The foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space was laid during World War II when he served in the U.S. Army in Europe and the Philippines. From 1933 through
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1. Abstract Language: Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things‚ people‚ or places. 2. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds‚ such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." 3. Allusion: A reference contained in a work 4. Ambiguity: an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. 5. Analogy: a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation
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