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    of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as ‘technospeak’ comes to rule‚ standards will be lost. This project is an attempt to explore this linguistic problem. A qualitative and also quantitative study is conducted here to see how internet’s global scale and intensity is having an effect on language in general‚ and on individual languages in particular. Covering a range of Internet genres‚ including e-mail‚ chat and the

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    Politicians and Language

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    Language as a Method of Manipulation Language is more than a way of communication between people; language is a tool used for expressing‚ collaborating‚ and influencing. Language can make the audience not only learn‚ but feel. This is the beauty of language‚ it is more than a group of words. People often use language as a means of expression to convince people. Politicians‚ specifically‚ control the power of the language they speak in order to control the public. Without this power of language

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    Language Development

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    Children’s language development and second language acquisition Sandra Morales Texas Woman’s University Children’s language development and second language acquisition The paper investigates how children develop their cognitive and language skills in a context that is influenced by social and biological factors. The literature review discusses the Cognitive and Social Constructivism theories and their influence on the education field. In addition the author presents how children develop

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    Assembly language can execute the same commands as machine language; however‚ the commands have names instead of numbers. Assembly language‚ unlike machine language‚ is a symbolic representation of operation codes‚ symbolic memory addresses and pseudo codes‚ which makes the virtual environment user friendly. Machine language‚ on the other hand‚ is represented as binary bits consisting of a string of 0s and 1s‚ which makes the virtual world challenging since the lingo is only comprehended primarily

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    Functions of Language

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    1) What are the functions of language? (450 – 500 words) All forms of human life communicate with each other and humans are not unique in this capacity. Human forms of communication include verbal forms‚ body language and gestures. However‚ this communication system is learned instead of being biologically inherited. Children for example‚ acquire a language as they develop and grow and this miraculous language ‘instint’ (Pinker 1994) seems‚ at first glance‚ to happen effortlessly. As Romaine

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    Silent Language

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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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    Importance of Language

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    Importance of Language In the story‚ “From a Native Daughter”‚ by Haunani-Kay Trask talks about herself‚ and how the history of the people and their culture of Hawaii means to her. She has learned stories over time from her parents and ancestors of how things were before her‚ so she has a lot of knowledge about the history and culture of the people before her. She is very vocal in her voice and wants people who aren’t native from Hawaii to learn the truth about the history of the culture of Hawaii

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    Figurative Language

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    Figurative Language Figurative language‚ word or group of words used to give particular emphasis to an idea or sentiment. The special emphasis is typically accomplished by the user’s conscious deviation from the strict literal sense of a word‚ or from the more commonly used form of word order or sentence construction. From ancient times to the present‚ such figurative locutions have been extensively employed by orators and writers to strengthen and embellish their styles of speech and composition

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    Language and Gender

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    Language and Gender What evidence is there to show that men and women behave very differently in conversation? How do linguists account for these differences? Language is a tool that is believed to be unique to the human species. It is believed that on earth we are the only species to have developed the capacity to utilise language as a tool. It is considered to be the most powerful tool that we as modern humans have in our arsenal as it allows us to pass on our knowledge from one generation

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    Language and Globalisation

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    of communication. These modes rely on a particular circumstance that invites oral or symbolic means to impart the desired messages; and we use discourse for this purpose. Discourse refers to very specific patterns of language that tell us something about the person speaking the language‚ the culture that person is part of‚ the network of social institutions that the person caught up in‚ and even frequently the most basic assumptions that the person holds (Lois 5). Thus‚ the idea of discourse includes

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