Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types of speech‚ these were identified as careful speech “the interviewee
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On Racist Speech In his article On Racist Speech‚ Charles R. Lawrence III also tries to convey his point that racist speech need to be regulated‚ especially on college campuses. He gives many reasons why‚ but the three most prominent are Brown vs. the Board of Education‚ the fighting words exception principle‚ and the idea of racist speech at "home". The infamous case of Brown vs. BOE is not always thought of as a speech case. When he says we can regulate racist speech on collage campus without
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My speech content and structure improved more and more with every speech‚ I believe. The content with my first two speeches weren’t very good‚ because I didn’t do enough research about the topics or allowed myself time to really think about every aspect of the speech. The content in my Persuasive Speech about school uniforms lacked enough useful information and was too vague. I was more focused on memorizing things and getting over my nervousness. After I became comfortable and more knowledgeable
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Manalili‚ Maper Anne T. III-14 AB/BSE Literature FIGURE OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet ’s sense. FIGURES OF SPEECH | EXAMPLE (in Filipino Language/Context) | 1. SIMILE - an explicit comparison that is made between two essentially unlike things‚ usually using ‘like’‚ ‘as’ or ‘than’. | Mala-porselana ang kutis
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their further interest‚ they will ask for more or read your more detailed paper. The capacity to concisely present key points in a short 3 minute presentation is an important skill which has always been highly rated/appreciated by the customers/senior management of businesses or government (your audience) – and hence by your future employer. Your first real experience might well be when you pitch yourself (the 2-3 key reasons why they employ you!) to potential employers in an interview. What
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Venica Acosta for Finance‚ our academic and administrative deans‚ the faculty and staff‚ fellow scholars and students‚ friends‚ ladies and gentlemen‚ good afternoon. I am not a special person because I am standing here at the stage giving my speech after being chosen by the committee on scholarship and awards. I am not an idol to be praised all the time. I am just like everyone else in this university who study the designed curriculum for me. I am also a student who walks in the corridors‚ who
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Speech Analysis Throughout the course of history‚ there have been copious amounts of famous speeches‚ given by many different people. From political figures to sports players‚ these people have provided deep thoughts and great insights about who they are and the world we live in today. Speeches also play an important and powerful role in both persuading and convincing large groups of people. Adolf Hitler‚ for example‚ somehow managed to persuade much of Germany to follow his beliefs‚ and actually
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Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexical and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies‚ the syntax which structures them and their set of speech sound units differ‚ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers
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Informative Speech: "The Causes of Homelessness" Subject and Purpose 1. This informative speech on “The Cause of Homelessness “is very Inform able and worth listening to‚ because in today’s economy it could be you or me. Some seem to think homelessness is choice. I find this speech relevant to the world I live in today‚ due to the high unemployment rate‚ declining job market‚ and the economic hardships that families are enduring. This topic is not a broad one‚ but yet can be spoke
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Freedom of Speech Freedom of speech is arguably the most precious gift of democracy. Democracy nurtures freedom of speech of its citizens. Citizens‚ in turn‚ safeguard democracy by voicing their protest against each and every violation of democratic rights of people. Evolution of democracy is nothing but a history of the extension of the right of freedom of speech from the limited group of privileged citizens to the universal right of every citizen granted by democratic regimes of the world. It
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