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    УДК SOME ISSUES ON FRENCH BORROWINGS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Василенко Дарья Жезказганский университет им. О.А. Байконурова Every living language changes through time. It is natural that no records of linguistic changes have ever been kept‚ as most changes pass unnoticed by contemporaries. The history of the English language has been reconstructed on the basis of written records of different periods. The earliest extant written texts in English are dated in the

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    Reactance. The psychological phenomenon that results from the perception of the restriction of free will. Human beings typically utilize their freedom responsibly and consider the balance between risk and reward. However‚ in the occasion where a force actively attempts to deter the completion of an action‚ the curiosity and reactance of humans will create a desire to do it simply for the satisfaction of feeling “free”. Four hundred years ago‚ William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet‚ a romantic

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    Language shapes the way we think‚ and determines what we can think about.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf Introduction The idea that language affects the way we remember things and the way we perceive the world was first introduced by the influential linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf (Harley‚ 2008). The central idea of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis‚ today more commonly known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis‚ holds that “each language embodies a worldview‚ with quite different languages

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    Abstract The main outcomes of this study were that a significant (p<.05) relationship was found between quality of sleep and subjective sleepiness‚ sustained attention and subjective mood. It was found that the better quality of sleep is obtained‚ the less subjectively sleepy‚ higher sustained attention and more positive subjective mood the participant has. The present study was in line with several other studies undertaken‚ with many of the findings being reflected in both this study and others

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    The Influence of Sense of Language on English Reading Teaching Abstract Sense of language‚ though has been existed for a long time‚ it enters the linguists’ research area only in the latest twenty years. This paper discusses the sense of language in English reading teaching from the psychological point of view. It begins with the definition and psychological mechanism of the sense of language and reading. By analyzing and comparing their psychological mechanism‚ it explores the relationship of

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    offer an interesting and important take on what nature is in respect to humans and these subjects. He

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    Influence of Immigration on the American Culture and Language CONTENT Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….. The Main Part ……………………………………………………………………….. Chapter I In Search of America ………………………………………………………………… 1.1. America: Its Image and Reality…………………………………………………… 1.2. The Reasons of Immigration to the USA…………………………………………. 3. . The Importance of Religious Beliefs: “One Nation under God ” ………………… Chapter II The Nation of Immigrants…………………………………………………………… 2.1. American beliefs and values………………………………………………………

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    believe in anything that they do not see with their own eyes. In essence‚ “seeing is believing.” Knowledge is captured through our sense perceptions. Throughout life‚ we see‚ hear‚ smell‚ taste and feel things‚ which are used as the basis of our knowledge to help build an understanding of our world. However‚ sometimes our senses are flawed‚ leading to “incorrect” perceptions of certain things. This being so‚ we are frequently reminded to “never trust our own eyes.” So then‚ which one of these phrases is

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    Language and culture plays major role in the perceptual process because what a child learn culture from young will change the way they perceive the world. There are two hundred countries around the world and different countries have different cultures and languages. So do different languages and cultures affect us in the perceptual process? I think the answer will be yes because language affects our perceptual senses. For example‚ in Korean ‘Apa’ means dad but In Indonesian‚ it means what. So different

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    constancy from the sensation and perception tutorials. Size constancy refers to the fact that our perceptions of the size of objects are relatively constant despite the fact that the size of objects on the retina vary greatly with distance. In the experiment a photograph of several people walking on a hiking trail that extended to a perceived horizon led to the sensation of depth and distance and although the actual pixel size of the people farthest away was smaller my perception was that all of the people

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