Supervisor: Koczogh Helga Vanda 2012 | 1. Introduction The investigation of male and female speech differences is a major topic in sociolinguistics. The literature on this issue is vast; it has been one of the biggest within sociolinguistics in recent years. A number of linguists have investigated this field of study; among them Robin Lakoff (1975)‚ Janet Holmes (2001)‚ Deborah Tanen (1990)‚ Jennifer Coates (1998)‚ Susan U. Philips (1980)
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furniture‚ features of the environment (temperature‚ lighting) how we utter words (inflection‚ tone‚ volume) and it can occur in the absence of verbal communication through symbols and physical contexts. This study is in the broad area of interactive sociolinguistics which sees communication as the outcome of exchanges involving more than one active participant. In Zimbabwe‚ many complaints by patients about how doctors communicate non-verbally have being raised. The problem which this proposed study seeks
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social‚ cultural‚ historical and political factors. This includes the study of evolutionary linguistics‚ which investigates into questions related to the origins and growth of languages; historical linguistics‚ which explores language change; sociolinguistics‚ which looks at the relation between linguistic variation and social structures;psycholinguistics‚ which explores the representation and function of language in the mind; neurolinguistics‚ which looks at language processing in the brain; language
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as to prepare for the later attacks on Europe. The plan was for the allies to attack morocco‚ Algeria‚ and Tunisia. Land that was part of Vichy french which is just what the
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World Applied Sciences Journal 18 (5): 673-680‚ 2012 ISSN 1818-4952 © IDOSI Publications‚ 2012 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2012.18.05.16712 The Relationship Between Unemployment and Economic Growth in Jordan and Some Arab Countries Mahmoud A. Al-Habees and Mohammed Abu Rumman Faculty of Planning and Management‚ AL-Balqa Applied University‚ Jordan Abstract: Unemployment is a negative phenomenon in any human society as it adversely affect in different dimensions and directions. In addition‚ it refers
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A Diachronic Study on the Semantic Change of “xiaojie” “小姐”语义变化的历时研究 A Diachronic Study on the Semantic Change of “xiaojie” Abstract：As a necessary word in social communication‚ xiaojie has always been closely observed by many scholars and professors‚ and this paper focus on its semantic change and usage. The word xiaojie‚ so far from its first appear in Song dynasty‚ its semantic meaning has changed a lot. The whole paper is
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colonisation. In colonial times‚ English was mainly used as the language of the government but in many ex-colonies of Britain‚ English continues to be the language of the exclusive social elite. (Cheshire 1991: 6). Cheshire‚ Jenny. 1991. Introduction: sociolinguistics and English around the world. In Cheshire‚ 1991: 1-12. Language is
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communicative theory‚ aiming to achieve communicative competence. The form of communicative theory has a close relationship with the sociolinguistics‚ which focus on the relationship between language and society and study how to use language in different social communities. According to the sociolinguisticians‚ the function of language is communication‚ and the work of sociolinguistics is to study how language can be used in the social communication. The Communicative theory and soon the Communicative Approach
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Water‚ energy crisis in Pakistan First of all‚ let us admit that all the problems listed in the title have two things in common: they are made-made; and they are interlinked. Starting on these premises‚ we proceed direct to the solutions through examples. In December‚ 2008‚ when I went to interview Shahbaz Sharif‚ I asked him to do one thing: invite Jeffrey Sachs‚ the famous Columbian University Professor who looks at poverty in the world not as a social evil‚ but clinically‚ treating it as a
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Janet Holmes) Chapter One: What do sociolinguists study? - Sociolinguistics: a term that refers to the study of the relationship between language and society‚ and how language is used in multilingual speech communities. Q what aspects of language are Sociolinguists interested in? Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social contexts. And the effect of social factors such as (social distance‚ social status
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