Introduction Maru is a book that reflects on the life of an orphaned young girl of Basarwa tribe who gets an opportunity of teaching and she is sent to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her existence separates a community which does not recognise Basarwa people as human beings thus condemn her to the lonely life of an outcast. This Book Maru in a way reflects on the life of its writer Bessie Head who is recognised as one of the best African writers
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Word-formation in English by Ingo Plag Universität Siegen in press Cambridge University Press Series ‘Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’ Draft version of September 27‚ 2002 i TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1 1. Basic concepts 1.1. What is a word? 4 4 1.2. Studying word-formation 12 1.3. Inflection and derivation 18 1.4. Summary 23 Further reading 23 Exercises 24 2. Studying
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The Language of Hip Hop Term paper for the PS "The English Language in America" SS 2006 handed in by Sebastian Ludyga Magdeburg‚ 25.09.2006 Table of contents 1. Introduction to hip hop 1 2. Hip Hop Nation Language 2 2.1 Features of the HHNL 3 2.2 The relationship of HHNL and AAL 5 3. Practical application 6 4. Conclusion
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Etymology: From the Greek word (Psycho=mind) + Latin word (Linguistics=tongue) Pronunciation: si-ko-lin-GWIS-tiks Also known as: Psychology of Language Psycholinguistcs The psychology of language‚ including language acquisition by children‚ the mental processes underlying adult comprehension and production of speech‚ language disorders‚ etc. Study of the mental processes involved in the comprehension‚ production‚ and acquisition of language. Noam Chomsky
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communicative knowledge and object of L2 learning in its own right. The first role of pragmatics is evident in functionalist (Tomlin 1990) and interactionist (Long 1996) views of SLA. The second role puts pragmatics on a par with morphosyntax‚ lexis‚ and phonology in that inquiry focuses on learners’ knowledge‚ use‚ and acquisition of L2 pragmatics. It is the latter sense of ‘pragmatics and SLA’ that is the focus of this paper. In analogy with other areas of specialization within SLA—interlanguage syntax
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Things from there started to change. Little by little I was able to learn the language. I became familiarized with the morphology and phonology of the English language. Although‚ syntax which is basically grammar and semantics which is the study of words were much harder to learn (Wright‚ 2010). I think that I will always experience a bit of trouble with the English language. It’s something
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nature. The first writing code was the cuneiform script‚ which emerged in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE‚ written on clay tablets. It was based on pictographic and ideographic elements‚ while later Sumerians developed syllables for writing‚ reflecting the phonology and syntax of the Sumerian language. In Egypt hieroglyphic writing was developed‚ with the first sample being the Narmer palette (3100 BCE). The Hebrew language was on the first language to utilized the method of writing with an alphabet‚ which relates
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will focus on the Canadian English’s grammatical‚ phonetic and vocabulary features. Author of this paper will start with a brief history of the language in Canada‚ next will be described grammatical peculiarities of Canadian English; phonetics and phonology of Canadian English; vocabulary of Canadian English; dialects of Canadian English and at the end author will draw relevant conclusions. History of the Language in Canada Canada has two official languages – English and French. But‚ as was
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the way English is the way it is to the students in an EFL class. Knowing for example that English derives from the Germanic group of languages and that it had a strong Latin influence will enable the teacher to limit the stress on vocabulary and phonology when teaching students who speak a Germanic or Latin based language. It will be the opposite when teaching students whose native language does not even adopt the Roman alphabet‚ like the Chinese‚ Japanese‚ Arabic‚ Thai and so forth. Learning how
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