Reaction Paper 1 Icelandic Language Loyalty and the National Identity The purpose of this paper is to show the cause of Iceland’s intense language maintenance and its effects on their language policy. Icelanders treat their mother tongue with the same amount of care as a fellow Icelander. It is thought the island’s language loyalty reciprocates and enhances their monolingual language policy at both the government and grassroots level. Perhaps because‚ Iceland’s geneolgy insists that it
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“Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” is a sentence created by Noam Chomsky who is an American linguist‚ philosopher‚ cognitive scientist‚ historian‚ logician‚ social critic‚ political activist‚ and sometimes described as ‘’ the father of modern linguistics”‚ Chomsky is also an important figure in analytic philosophy. “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” is a significant sentence related to syntactic structure which is grammatically correct‚ however‚ semantically nonsensical. It demonstrates
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identity practices in a community of nerd girls.” Bucholtz first described what both speech community‚ and community of practice were? According to her definition‚ Speech community was a language-based unit of social analysis used in traditional sociolinguistics research. The community of practice‚ on the other hand‚ was an ethnographic‚ activity-based approach. In her research paper‚ she strongly agreed with the theory of community of practice. The reason why she strongly supported with the method was
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pragmatics. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Hymes‚ D. (1972). On communicative competence. In: Pride‚ J. B. & Holmes‚ J. (Eds.). Sociolinguistics. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Lado‚ R. (1961). Language testing: The construction and use of foreign language test. London: Longman‚ 281. Stubbs‚ M. (1983). Discourse analysis: The sociolinguistic analysis of natural language. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Thomas‚ J. (1983). Cross-cultural pragmatic failure. Applied Linguistics‚ 4‚ 91-112. XU‚ L
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Pauwels‚ Anne (1998)‚ Women Changing Language‚ New York: Addison Wesley Longman. Thorne‚ B.‚ Kramarae‚ C.‚ Henley‚ N. (1983). Language Gender and Society‚ Henle and Henle Publishers Wardaugh‚ R. (1992)‚ An Introduction to Sociolinguistics‚ Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
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Linguistic discourse analysis 1.1Defining discourse Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language‚ in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein
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When examining sociolinguistics views relating to whether or not children should have support in their native languages‚ there are surprisingly several theories. With each article and author‚ with each study‚ a new idea is formed. Likewise‚ non-linguists responded the same way. For the interviews‚ I interviewed Isaac‚ Betty‚ and Chantelle. All thought that support came from the family and they had various reasons why they thought so; when it came to potential problems‚ social factors were the answer
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the rule of Willam. Would his English peasants ever expect the world where their "vulgar" language became lingua franca? such an interesting phenomenon is called bilingualism. it simply means the act of using two languages‚ but in terms of sociolinguistics‚ bilingualism is often reffered to a society where different classes of people use different lanagues. Causes and representations of bilingualism may vary in a great degree; for example‚ colonists in the imperial era spread their languages all
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English Lexicology Ecaterina Albu‚ MA‚ senior university lecturer unilateral‚ bilateral‚ trilateral‚ multilateral monogamy‚ polygamy inflexible‚ imbalance‚ irrational‚ illegal download‚ copyright‚ mother wit‚ green wealth We summered in Spain last year. English Lexicology(I) 2 skate‚ skim‚ skin‚ ski‚ sketch‚ skid This fox goes well with your cap. He is too fond of bottles. blue-collar workers‚ white-collar workers‚ gray-collar works‚ pink-collar works‚ gold-collar
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WHAT IS STYLE AND STYLISTICS? What is meant by style is debatable because it is highly debatable if human beings are exactly alike. It is very difficult to arrive at a full description of style that is acceptable to all scholars. As such there are many definitions of the word style as there are scholars yet no consensus is reached among them on what style is. Chapman (1973) is of the view that style is the product of social situation i.e. of a common relationship between language users. He further
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