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TEN SIMPLE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH 1. This is what most people would advise: read. Read anything and everything in English. You can read storybooks‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ blocs‚ comics‚ English textbooks‚ instructions and ingredients on food packages‚ advertisements‚ etc. For story books‚ don’t force yourself to read something too difficult or something you know you won’t enjoy. Make reading fun! Read books that you ENJOY reading. I hate to read books that bore me too. 2. Watch English
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Idiomatic errors of Arab learners. First‚ idioms are one of the most important aspects in English. They are the most frequent and widely used in many situations‚ such as‚ daily conversation‚ meeting and written context. The definition of this aspect according to Kharma‚ Alhajjaj (1997)‚" An idiom is a fixed phrase‚ such as keep something under one’s hat‚ whose meaning can’t be predicated from a knowledge of the meaning of the individual words". So‚ an idiom is a group of words‚ in which has a different
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.........8 3. J. D. Salinger’s style and techniques of writing…………………................................12 4. Translation difficulties and its types……………………………….............................16 1.5 The difficulty of translation of set phrases and idioms..................................................28 References……………………………………………………………................................31 Chapter II Lexical Peculiarities and Translation difficulties in “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger 2.1 Types of Lexical
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MKOBA TEACHERS COLLEGE THEORY OF EDUCATION AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY PREPARED BY O. MUTOVOSI (Principal Lecturer) MEd (Phil of Ed); B Tech - Ed Mgt; Bed (Pry Ed); DipEd (Pry Ed) QUESTIONS: What is it? Does it exist? Do Africans have a philosophy? Can Africans philosophise? • Because of a legacy of denigration that portrays Africans as incapable of abstract thought‚ the question‚ ‘What is African Philosophy?’ is the first that occurs to those outside the field of philosophy. • There has been extensive
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part aphoristic. These are a terseness of expression and epigrammatic brevity in the essays of Bacon. In fact‚ the essays of Bacon have to be read slowly because of the compact and condensed thought. There are a number of lines‚ which are read like proverbs. As for example we can quote the essay Of Truth. In this essay Bacon says“ A lie faces God and shrinks pleasure. These sentences show that Bacon is a man of practical wisdom. 2) 2) This aphoristic style always depends on the device of balance
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Idioms are defined as phrases whose individual word meanings are not equal to their total figurative meaning (Swinney & Cutler‚ 1979). As the definition suggests‚ literal processing of the words is not enough for comprehending most of the idioms. Yet for some them‚ it is possible for literal meanings to lead the final figurative meaning. Decomposability refers to the degree of the contribution that words of an idiom make to the overall meaning of an idiom (Gibbs 1993). Non-decomposable idioms are
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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor George Lakoff (c) Copyright George Lakoff‚ 1992 To Appear in Ortony‚ Andrew (ed.) Metaphor and Thought (2nd edition)‚ Cambridge University Press. Do not go gentle into that good night. -Dylan Thomas Death is the mother of beauty . . . -Wallace Stevens‚ Sunday Morning Introduction These famous lines by Thomas and Stevens are examples of what classical theorists‚ at least since Aristotle‚ have referred to as metaphor: instances of novel poetic language in which
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How to Effect Successful Cross-culture Communication Purpose: This paper aims to talk about cross-culture communication and find ways to effect successful communication between different countries‚ which have different culture background‚ history‚ convention .etc. As we all know‚ language plays a decisive role when communicate with others but the diversity in language and culture makes cross-culture communication a highly risky mission. To complete this almost impossible mission in the ensuing
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Typology of phraseological units in English Difference in terminology (“set-phrases”‚ “idioms” and “word-equivalents” [1]) reflects certain differences in the main criteria used to distinguish types of phraseological units and free word-groups. The term “set phrase” implies that the basic criterion of differentiation is stability of the lexical components and grammatical structure of word-groups. There is a certain divergence of opinion as to the essential features of phraseological units as distinguished
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