emerged as the global language of trade and commerce in the past few decades‚ affecting many key aspects of business in the modern world. The English language has become the standard for all important official communications in an increasingly large number of countries with a wide variety of native languages. In the modern world‚ English continues to spread as the major medium through which both small businesses and large corporations do business. There are about 5‚000 languages in the world today
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of languages‚ dialects sounds and syllables that are spoken today‚ one can only imagine that the evolution of languages must have had a fascinating history. Second Paragraph: List of Languages Bow-wow theory‚ pooh-pooh theory‚ ding-dong theory‚ yo-he-ho theory‚ ta-ta theory Natural Sounds: In 1861‚ historical linguist Max Müller published a list of speculative theories concerning the origins of spoken language (Müller‚ F. M. 1996 [1861]. The theoretical stage‚ and the origin of language. Lecture
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Sexism in language Definition Sexism in language is Prejudice or discrimination based on sex especially discrimination against women. Sexist language is language that excludes either men or women when discussing a topic that is applicable to both sexes. * Pashto as a sexist language It has been said that English
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collocations play an important role in the field of second language acquisition‚ a number of previous studies have reported students‟ lack of collocational competence and the difficulties they encounter in learning and using collocations. The present study examines the productive and receptive knowledge of lexical and grammatical collocations among advanced Arabic-speaking learners of English. Furthermore‚ it investigates whether the language environment (ESL or EFL) has an influence on the acquisition
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Assembly Language Assembly language is nothing more than a symbolic representation of machine code‚ which also allows symbolic designation of memory locations. Thus‚ an instruction to add the contents of a memory location to an internal CPU register called the accumulator might be add a number instead of a string of binary digits (bits). No matter how close assembly language is to machine code‚ the computer still cannot understand it. The assembly-language program must be translated into machine
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Figurative Language and Imagery ENG 340 Creative Writing Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else‚ you are using figurative language. Figurative language is the use of language to describe something by comparing it to something else. It serves many linguistic purposes. It allows people to express abstract thoughts. It creates tone and communicates emotional content. The ability to use figurative language in writing can make a poem or story more enjoyable for the reader
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one is able to access these customs by interviewing someone from that culture. Language is the key module to a single culture‚ whether only one culture speaks a particular language or many cultures across the world share that same language. Sharing a language with another culture is a way of combining two or more cultures together in which they have a mutual characteristic of each culture. The French language is spoken in several countries; some consist of the United States‚ Canada‚ France
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was written in 1940. Langston uses a lot of concrete and descriptive language in his work. Langston Hughes’s essay “Salvation” uses detailed descriptions to impact the reader. Description is “a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species” (“description”). Authors use concrete language to influence readers. Concrete language is “based off the five senses which are hearing taste‚ sight‚ touch
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In a vast majority of the research found‚ three simple tasks were conducted on participants of different languages‚ and age ranges. Participants were occasionally asked to complete more than one of these tasks‚ depending on the goal of the researchers. Almost anyone can complete these tasks‚ however if necessary‚ they should be modified to each group of participants appropriately. For example‚ if the participants only speak English and/or Spanish‚ the words in the Stroop task should only be in one
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Persuasive Language What is language? What does it mean to people? Language is sacred to the Navajo people. Throughout Navajo history there are articles and statements that many of the youth don’t know the Navajo language because of the past history. It has not been a major issue in the Navajo Nations eye’s until the recent Presidential candidate‚ Chris Deschene was denied to run for Navajo Nation President because he could not speak Navajo fluently. Today majority of the Navajo people are not able
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