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    `Rinkebyswedish`and how does it affect the Swedish language? Method In order to collect data for my analysis‚ I read two very helpful and interesting books about language and slang. These books are called “Skolan mitt I förorten” by Nihad Bunar and “Sociolinguistics. An introduction to Language and Society” by Peter Trudgill. Furthermore‚ I looked at webpages on the Internet‚ regarding this topic‚ for information and collected some important material for this essay. Reports by Mikael Parkvall and Anastacia

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    The Implementation of Grammar In Communicative Language Teaching Paper Submitted as final exam for academic writing class By: FransiscusTeja H.B. - 2009031048 LeonardusWahono K. - 2010031068 English Department Faculty of Education Atmajaya Catholic University of Indonesia ABSTRACT Communicative Language Teaching is believed as a method that enhance second language learners to achieve the goal which is native-like proficiency and in it’s process‚ grammar instruction is unnecessary

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    precedes a sentence to be interpreted and situational context is knowledge about the word. Contextual linguistics : is that realm where linguistics interacts with other disciplines.  Such as: Psycholinguistics : the study of language and mind. Sociolinguistics : the study of language and society. Applied linguistics : the application of linguistics to language teaching. Computational linguistics : the use of computer to simulate language and its working. Philosophical linguistics : the link between

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    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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    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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    Social dialects Rothstain and S.Rothstain (2009)‚ they difined dialect a an aspect of language that refers to variation in pronunciation‚ words and‚ grammar of a specific language and as a part of every language‚ resulting from geographic‚ occupational and social differences. Read(1986)‚ said that dialect can be divided into social and regional varieties. Regional dialects are difened geographically; social dialect are difined by socioeconomic and sociocultural characteristics

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