and now as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house’ (Daniels‚8). The question that has been around for hundreds of years: “Should English be declared the official language of the United States?” is still the controversy – refighting the same old sociolinguistic issue of the 1970s. Yes‚ English should be the sole language of the US‚ because of increased concern with different languages‚ importance of America adopting English as official language‚ and the debate regarding immigrants. The Increased concern
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1. Introduction: A person is said to be multilingual if he or she is competent in more than one language.Multilingualism is usually the result of many factors‚ such as colonisation‚ intercultural marriage‚cultural interaction‚ education‚ and many other reasons. The applied linguist Del Hymes definescommunicative linguistic competence as‚ ’[a person] acquires competence as to when to speak‚when not‚ and as to what to talk about with whom‚ when‚ where‚ in what manner’ (Hymes‚ 1979).In this way‚ a person
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Analyse the following quote: “ it is because the media are central to our everyday lives that we must study them... as social and cultural as well as political and economic dimensions of the modern world.” (Roger Silverstone‚ Why Study the Media? 1999.) criteria understand respond to question construct logical argument key terms/concepts used accurately provide relevant examples where required Reading 1.1 Why Media Studies is Worthwhile: Bazalgette ’Media studies is controversial because
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Literature and Creativity in English Semester II 2014 Unit I Dr. Magda Introduction This course provides a lively introduction to stylistic‚ sociolinguistic and multimodal analysis. It draws on work in literature and performance studies as well as English language studies. This part of the course looks at texts designed for public consumption‚ including: poetry‚ plays and novels‚ picture books‚ performance art‚ eliterature‚ and adverts. What distinguishes some of these texts as
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STANDARD ENGLISHES: SPEECH AND WRITING This part or chapter focuses on the aspects of what we need to know in order to help pupils or students learn more about language and literacy skills. It is hoped that the focus on spoken and written language can‚ however‚ be read as symptomatic and as illustrative of the complex relationship between knowledge about language‚ on the part of teachers and students‚ and literacy skills. The function of spoken language grammars are interpersonal and high reciprocal
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Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….…......3 Chapter 1 Language is Culture: Intercultural Communication ………………………….….……….5 1.1 Language as a marker of cultural identity …………………………………………….………….5 1.2 Cross-cultural communicative competence ………………………………………………………7 1.3 Cultural and intercultural communication ………………………………………………...…….12 Chapter 2 Influence of Native Language and Culture on Intercultural communication ……………18 2.1 Levels of communication …………...………………………………………………………..…19
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Dr. Williams and a group of Black scholars first coined the terms Ebonics in 1973 when referring to the language spoken by African slaves and their descendants. Ebonics‚ which is derived from the word ebony‚ which means black‚ and phonetics‚ which means sound‚ was adopted as the new term for Black English and African-American Vernacular English. Mary Rhodes Hoover states‚ "Many who condemn Ebonics refer to it as "bad grammar‚" "lazy pronunciation‚" or "slang." However‚ linguist Dell Hymes notes
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THE REGISTER OF UP MINDANAO STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS by: ALEXIS GENE WALES ALMASCO ANNE LAGMAY ELISEO A Sociolinguistic Paper submitted to Professor Karen Joyce G. Cayamanda in partial fulfillment for COMA104 (Language and Culture)‚ 1st Semester‚ AY 2011-2012 Chapter I INTRODUCTION A. Rationale Language serves a significant part in human’s daily life. People need and use language everyday. It plays an important role in communication. It is used in
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References: Bernard Spolsky. Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press. 1998. Diana Boxer‚ Andrew D. Cohen. Studying Speaking to Inform 2nd Language Learning. Cromwell Press Ltd. 2004 Richard Bauman‚Joel Sherzer. Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge University Press. 1996
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Why is anthro important? Important to understand the diversity Important to be tolerant Important to be able to apply our knowledge Anthropological perspective What makes anthro unique Comparative: views humans across time and space (comparative method) Has many sub areas; past present or future anthropologist spend many years studying in different countries how people act allows others to compare ex‚ students researching product of ethnographic (generalizations based on comparative
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