Euphemisms Euphemisms are everywhere in today’s society. They are a daily accessory used in today’s language and are such a normalcy that one does not notice them as strange. For hundreds of years people have used language to persuade people or even nations. With the more advanced society gets so does the language and thus this persuasion gets even more convincing. Many novels show examples of euphemisms. Among those novels includes 1984 by George Orwell. Euphemisms can range from being used in
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Age problems and difficulties in leaning English as a foreign language Since 19th century foreign language learning has been a practice for many people. That was mostly due do colonization and industrialization or economic purposes. People from different cultures came into contact to one another. They needed to talk and exchange ideas. For the colonizers‚ they needed to learn the language of those countries which they were invading‚ to understand the mentality and the culture of its inhabitants
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An example of this is the text is referring to the murder of King Duncan as the ’deed’. Lady Macbeth describes the action of murdering King Duncan through the words ’to catch the nearest way’. The use of this euphemism to describe the action of killing Duncan can be seen as though she is trying to hide the harsh imagery of blood and violence in the action of murder. This is an example of Lady Macbeth’s diminishing sense of conscientiousness. The composer also uses
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Psycholinguistic peculiarities of oral speech Psycholinguistic or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enables humans to acquire‚ use and comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances‚ words‚ texts. Psycholinguistics
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In Ender’s Game‚ euphemism is present while the government does not tell Ender the whole truth about his activities‚ which affects Ender’s actions drastically‚ proving euphemism alters people’s decisions. When Granger travels to Ender’s house to recruit Ender to help destroy the bugger aliens‚ he used tons of understatements to persuade Ender to come. Granger tells Ender that he will fight for Valentine‚ Ender’s sister‚ who will be saved from the possibility of dying but‚ Ender is really needed to
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Gender and Translation Accuracy Salar Manafi Anari[1] (Professor‚ Allameh Tabataba ’i University) Maliheh Ghodrati[2] (M.A. Graudate from Science and Research Campus‚ Islamic Azad University) Abstract The aim of this study was to identify the role of the gender of the translator on the accuracy of the translation‚ and to determine whether there is any difference between the translations done by female and male translators in terms of translation accuracy. Two English novels and
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International Communication - term paper So‚ you wannabe a translator . Translation and Interpreting in International Communication Introduction As I was preparing to put my ideas in order and reflect upon what I was going to write for my essay on International Communication‚ I suddenly remembered the last lecture on the subject. It was about translating and interpreting‚ so I figured out that an essay on the translation challenges in today ’s world would be a great idea to write about.
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ABSTRACT Most research in Machine translation is about having the computers completely bear the load of translating one human language into another. This paper looks at the machine translation problem afresh and observes that there is a need to share the load between man and machine‚ distinguish ‘reliable’ knowledge from the ‘heuristics’‚ provide a spectrum of outputs to serve different strata of people‚ and finally make use of existing resources instead of reinventing the wheel. This paper describes
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In his "A Passage to India"‚ Forster explores the possibility of English-Indian Friendship. He begins and ends by posing the question of whether it is possible for an Englishman and an Indian to ever be friends‚ at least within the context of British colonialism. Thus‚ as soon as the novel opens‚ the reader is introduced to an argument‚ between Mahmoud Ali‚ Hamidullah‚ and‚ Aziz raising this English-Indian-friendship question. The argument is quite significant because it sets the tone of the novel
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1712-8358[Print] ISSN 1923-6700[Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org Cross-Cultural Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Euphemisms WANG Xiaoling[a]; ZHANG Meng[a]‚*; DONG Hailin[a] [a] College of Foreign Languages‚ Hebei United University‚ West Xinhua Road‚ Tangshan‚ China. * Corresponding author. Supported by Study on Application of Cross-Cultural Teaching Concept in New Standard College English Teaching; Key Project of Ministry of Education for the Year 2010‚ the Eleventh Five-year Plan for
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