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    Jamie Oliver’s style of speech is very different to many of his contemporaries: he uses his distinctive style to present himself as a down to earth‚ friendly TV chef. Oliver is the only person talking in his transcripts because he is cooking and explaining his actions for the TV show. The fact that he is cooking while talking means that there are numerous pauses and fillers in the transcript‚ for example “you wanna coat the bottom ... of the pan.” The pause indicates that he is demonstrating this

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    Arif 3 Mouzam Arif Mr. O’Gorman ENG3U0 – A September 16‚ 2014 Writing a Critique: What’s in This Toothpaste? ​In the essay What’s in This Toothpaste? by David Bodanis. The audience/reader is informed about how toothpaste in made‚ the ingredients which are used to make just a bottle of tube and other alternatives that can be used if you opinion about toothpaste changes. The author talks about if toothpaste is something you should consider or keep using. ​There are a few examples of diction

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    Figurative Language versus Literal Language Maurice Mayo Sonja Sheffield Critical Thinking 1/25/13 It is important for one who speaks figuratively to take in consideration the audience might not be able to fully follow or understand them completely. Although figurative language can be entertaining‚ it can be interpreted in a way other that what was intended. Therefore‚ it will need some explanation. The word “idiom” is an expression whose meaning is not literally what’s said‚ but it is

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    Negro novelist mentions that there is a flaw with black Americans. For example‚ the young novelist proclaimed that blacks neither have their own characteristic food nor their own language and how many people do not know what soul food is. Also‚ some slang terms have developed the names for soul food which creates the foods own uniqueness. 1. Baraka simply is stating some types of food they ate but he wants to prove his point about what people thought how some of the food was made and prepared. Also

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    The Role of Culture in Discourse 1.0 Introduction Discourse‚ its etymology comes from Latin‚ discursus (which means “running to and fro”) is the term that concerns with spoken and written communication. In linguistics‚ discourse is a unit of language longer than a single sentence. More broadly‚ discourse could be the use of spoken or written language in a social context. According to Hinkel and Fotos (2002) in New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms‚ discourse

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    University of Phoenix Material Scholarly Writing Analysis Worksheet In assigned pairs‚ select one of the non-discipline-specific journal articles from the required text readings for PHL/700R Day One or Day Two. Critically analyze the article as an example of scholarly writing. Article Author or Authors: Cunliffe‚ A.L. Article Title: ON BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLEXIVE PRACTITIONER Part One: Scholarly Writing Conventions Elements of writing Reader’s overall impression Examples

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    and audience. Broad distinctions have commonly been drawn between formal and informal levels of usage. Dictionaries sometimes provide usage labels to indicate the contexts in which certain words are generally used. Such labels include colloquial‚ slang‚ dialect‚ nonstandard‚ and archaic. See also: Diction E.B. White’s Diction and Metaphors in "Death of a Pig" Nonstandard English and Standard English Plain Style‚ Middle Style‚ and Grand Style Style Usage Examples and Observations: "Each

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    Appendix With Data: The following chat takes place at Grand West Casino − which participant Y is situated − and the following location take place at‚ participant X ’s home − which will be within participants X ’s bedroom. This chat took place at approximately between the hours of 20h41 to 22h40 on Friday the 29th of March 2013. This chat takes place between two best friends‚ a boy and a girl that have been friends for four years. X: Ur a lil drinker! Lol {You are a little drinker} Y: Aaaahw

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    The American Dialect Society The Language of ’The Catcher in the Rye’ Author(s): Donald P. Costello Source: American Speech‚ Vol. 34‚ No. 3 (Oct.‚ 1959)‚ pp. 172-181 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/454038 . Accessed: 30/01/2011 11:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part

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    sign of nervousness‚ in this case I think the pauses help Oliver to appear normal‚ like his viewers‚ so they are more likely to attempt his recipes and‚ of course‚ buy his books. Jamie Oliver’s Estuary accent and his accompanying use of London slang are also distinctive features of his talk. A Word such as ‘bash’ is a colloquial and is not a word we expect to hear on a cooking programme. We are used to words from the cooking semantic field such as ‘whisk’‚ ‘bake’‚ ‘stir’ but Oliver’s language

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