In Losing the Race‚ John McWhorter speaks about the “disease of defeatism that has infected black America.” In the novel he explores in detail three aspects of modern day black American cultural mentality‚ or "cults‚" that hold African Americans back. First‚ is the Cult of Victimology. In it‚ victimhood has been transformed “from a problem to be solved into an identity in itself.” Then there is the Cult of Separatism‚ in this cult‚ the uniqueness of our history is used as a justification to exempt
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This is just so I can read an essay Spanish (español)‚ also called Castilian[3] (castellano About this sound listen (help·info))‚ is a Romance language that originated in Castile‚ a region of Spain. Approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language‚ making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide.[1][2] It also has 60 million speakers as a second language‚[2] and 20 million students as a foreign language.[4] Spanish is one of the six official
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LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the ’natural being’ of animal existence to the ’cultural being’ of human existence‚ language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and‚ in the process‚ creates multiple identities. The maintenance‚ merger‚ clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists‚ philosophers‚ psychologists
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Contents: 1. What is slang?……………………………………(3-5) 2. Development of slang............................................(5-6) 3. Creators of slang ………………………………...(6-7) 4. Linguistic processes forming slang ………….......(7) 5. Formation………………………………………...(8) 6. Examples of youth slang during 1960-70’s ……....(8-9) 6.1 Examples of modern British slang ………………(9-10) 6.2 Examples of modern USA slangs ………………..(11) 7. Definition of vulgarism …………………………..(11-12) 8. Vulgarisms
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Presentation language and social relations 1. Language and being social a) How language can make or ruin a relationship b) How can you be more social and popular through language (wat kan je met taal doen om te zorgen dat je meer sociaal bent zeg maar) c) How can one’s body language make them more socially attractive (als die term überhaupt bestaat en geen seksistische ondertoon heeft) like expression‚ and how the lacking or overusing of expression might cause misunderstandings between
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter presents an introduction consisting of background of study‚ problems of study‚ objective of the study‚ and significance of the study. 1.1 Background of the Study Language has a social function as a tool to make connection between human beings. Without language‚ it seems impossible for people to interact with others in their daily life because language can express people’s feeling‚ willing‚ opinion‚ etc. In case of communication‚ some public figures might influence
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A Proposed Set of Subtitling Standards in Europeby Fotios KaramitroglouPhD Audiovisual Translation UMIST‚ Manchester‚ UK European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST) | PREFACETranslation Studies is nowadays overwhelmed by a number of attempts to discard prescriptive standpoints and adopt new‚ descriptive directions. As a consequence‚ the research effort has been shifted from an investigation of things that should be done to an investigation of things that are being done. Audiovisual/Screen
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geographically or socially)‚ ethnolect (a variety of a language spoken by a certain ethnic/cultural subgroup and serves primarily as a language‚ but can also be a distinguishing mark of social identity‚ both within the group and by outsiders)‚ and sociolect (a variety of a language used by a particular social group) of American English. “Many non-linguists refer to African American Vernacular English as Ebonics which is a term that also has other meanings or strong connotations.” The pronunciations
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Code switching: - Definition: The practice of oscillate between two languages or between two dialects or registers of the same language. Code switching (CS) occurs far more often in conversation than in writing. According to Numan and carter the term defined as "a phenomenon of switching from one language to another in the same discourse. Trudgill‚"speakers switch to manipulate or influence or define the situation as they wish and to convey nuances of meaning and personal intention". Kinds
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Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker "Our Country’s Good‚" a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker‚ is about a group of English convicts bound for Australia by sea in 1788. In the first scene‚ Sideways‚ a convict on board the ship‚ is being brutally whipped and we are introduced to the constant‚ overwhelming fear‚ hunger and despair that the convicts are going through. We are also introduced to all the officials on board. They are debating the punishment of hanging that three of the convicts
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