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    Wuchau District is one of the districts in Upper West Region which is predominantly rural. It has Wuchau as its capital with local communities around the capital. Because the district is predominantly rural‚ it is no less a fact to state that the place is predominantly traditional society and hence it is‚ and as would be expected‚ that a major proportion of its people rely on traditional mode of doing things. This explains why they uphold indigenous culture very high. Their mode of dressing‚

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    have been inspired to put down in words their innermost feelings‚ thoughts and emotions in different forms such as verse and prose and in doing so coined new words that have been introduced into everyday language. Countless words‚ phrases‚ idioms and proverbs have thus helped to enrich the English language and will continue to do so for generations to

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    Hayes (San Antonio: Trinity Univ. Press‚ 1974) Johnson‚ A. R. Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel (Car-diff: Univ. of Wales‚ 1955) Rad‚ G. Von. Wisdom in Israel (Nashville: Abingdon‚ 1972) Toy‚ C. H. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark‚ 1899) Holy Bible: The King James Version (Collins Bible‚ A Division of Harper Collins Publisher‚ 2006)

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    to spread their own ideas and culture to most parts of the world. Achebe uses the English Language for the aim of universality. He wrote his novel "Things fall a part" in English to convey the Igbo experience in addition to his use of local idiomsproverbs and imagery of his own culture; by this Achebe is able to communicate with the colonizer (the new land governor) and spread his culture and local customs to

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    for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach‚ idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which very often involve mental imagery. This imagistic component‚ in turn‚ is brought to the fore by means of Disney movies which very often commingle the pictorial‚ linguistic and embodied elements associated to an idiom. Key words: idioms‚ learners of EFL‚ conceptual

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    Chapter I Historical Background of English vocabulary Linguistic Notions: 1. Cognate 2. Etymology 3. Jargon 4. The core vocabulary 5. The learned vocabulary 6. Dialect 7. Inflection 6. Linguistic knowledge 3 Language classification (a) Isolating Each idea expressed in a separate word or morpheme; words tend to be monosyllabic e.g‚ Chinese; (b) Agglutinative Words made of multiple syllables;

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    STRATEGIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SPEECH The first few years of people’s life are key to the development of speech‚ language and cognitive skills. For this reason it is important to create activities and strategies for helping to develop speech and language skills that give them all the stimulation‚ positive role modeling and human contact that they need. STYLE IN LANGUAGE a. Principles in Choosing Words 1. Clear In speech‚ we should use clear word to make the audience undesrtand what we

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    exhausting. On the other hand operating an aerial lift may be frightening‚ However ‚ not physically exhausting. The utilization of an aerial lift will increase productivity by decreasing climber involvement and increasing company morale. An ancient proverb states "Many hands make light work." (Ammer) In life this holds true‚ but in practicality it is not always the most efficient method. By purchasing an aerial lift and using it in my day to day tree trimming and tree removal operations‚ I could do

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    Analysis on the Relationship Between Poetry & Painting An analysis on the relationship between poetry and painting Lope De Vega‚ in one of his sonnets‚ refers to two famous contemporaries in a striking way; he calls the Italian poet Marino “a great painter for the ears” and the Flemish painter Rubens “a great poet for the eyes”. Six hundred year and 6000 miles away‚ a similar concept occurs in a parallel situation. The Chinese poet Su Shi‚ in one of his poems‚ praises two men

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    JUSTYNA WALCZAK UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW POLAND To Professor Stanisław Dubisz with friendship and respect TRANSLATION OF OLD TEXTS AS A PROCESS OF SECONDARY ARCHAISATION Abstract: In the introduction there are described terms connected with the issues of translation as an archaic stylization. The aim of study is to present creative techniques in archaizing translations of old texts. Methods and materials: author refers to contemporary translation theories‚ especially to G. Steiner’s conception

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