Juno Renee T. Javier ECSped ------------------------------------------------- Module 1 ------------------------------------------------- Reflection Paper We study child’s development to further our knowledge about how it evolves over the entire life span of a child specifically during his/her childhood. It has been 4 years ago since I studied psychology courses during my undergrad program. Going back to basic feels good‚ I am rediscovering and relearning the topics that I enjoyed few years
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Text linguistics Module I. Classificationally meaningful characteristics of the text as an integral and independent object of investigation. Lecture 6. Conceptual variability of linguistic interpretations of the text essence and status and their reflections in the models of the text descriptions. Problem for discussion Evolution of the text description approaches. Models of the text descriptions. Grounds for the chosen models and schemes of the text descriptions
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cultural language differences are evidenced in that some languages have specific words for concepts whereas other languages use several words to represent a specific concept. For example‚ the Arabic language includes many specific words for designating a certain type of horse or camel (Crystal‚ 1987). To make such distinctions in English‚ where specific words do not exist‚ adjectives would be used preceding the concept label‚ such as quarter horse or dray horse. Cultural differences have also been noted
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Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods Volker Gast 1 Introduction: The subject matter of contrastive linguistics Narrowly defined‚ contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bi- or multilingual speakers‚ and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text‚ discourse)
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What is meant by the field of linguistics? This introductory chapter concerns some dimensions of linguistics‚ which give us a general idea of what linguistics is‚ including the history of linguistic‚ grammar‚ and other disciplines of linguistics study. What does grammar consist of and what are the relationship between one and another? How many languages do human beings have the capacity to acquire? What other studies are made in recent centuries? Each of these aspects are clearly described‚ and other
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suggestions. (October 2010) | Linguistics | | Theoretical linguistics | Cognitive linguistics Generative linguistics Quantitative linguistics Phonology · Morphology Syntax · Lexis Semantics · Pragmatics | Descriptive linguistics | Anthropological linguistics Comparative linguistics Historical linguistics Etymology · Phonetics Sociolinguistics | Applied and experimental linguistics | Computational linguistics Forensic linguistics Internet linguistics Language acquisition Language
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Mukachevo State University Report Text linguistics Prepared by Kamenkova Nastia 2014 Text Linguistics A text is an extended structure of syntactic units i.e. text as super-sentence such as words‚ groups‚ and clauses and textual units that is marked by both coherence among the elements and completion .A non-text consists of random sequences of linguistic units such as sentences‚ paragraphs‚ or sections in any temporal and/or spatial extension. A naturally
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matter of linguistics What is language? SET /REPERTOIRE TOOL MEANS OF INTERACTION KINESICS FLEXIBLE Creative Rule-governed Arbitrary Discrete To acquire Fully-fledged Sound /Phonetics /Phonology Word/Morphology Sentence/Syntax Meaning/Semantics Tacitly Gender Breach Finite set of rules / infinite Linguist To be under oath NEOLOGISM GURU SCHOOLS OF LINGUISTICS School /Trend /Approach /Frame of Thinking Principles / Underpinnings The History of Linguistics is split
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REFLECTION PAPER PSY-GROUP DYNAMICS Over the course of the semester‚ I encountered several group assignments. I am glad for the opportunity to provide a group reflection and perspective of my teams functioning throughout the semester in addition to a self-reflection. I believe that our group was highly functional and successful at achieving it’s goals‚ our separate life cycle and mission allowed us to continue without progressing through the conflict and storming that are typical for
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STRUCTURALISM IN LINGUISTICS Introduction It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas‚ nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather‚ I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and other transformationalists. Structuralism in linguistics has come to
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