Language as a social phenomenon. To be able to interpret linguistic phenomena it is important to state‚ that language is a product of society. According to Rossi-Landi‚ human appears when he overcomes the aim of satisfying immediate needs‚ i.e. start producing behavior instead of responding. Human results from the labour of man himself [Rossi-Landi 1983‚ p. 35-37; 1975‚ p. 31-69]. Thus‚ language is a result of human activity. Language vs Speech Saussure also separated language from speech‚ which
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Boardroom Conquerors After I have read this article written by Philip Delves Broughton‚ I would like to make summaries and add up some extra information for each these great leaders that appear in this article. Ataturk was so successful as he parlayed his military victories in to a single minded devotion to raising up his fellow Turks and not worrying about keeping the non-Turks of the Ottoman Empire inside it. Hannibal was usually a ruthless and tactical genius‚ through oddly he let slip his one
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Accent The ways in which words are pronounced. There will usually be pat terns in the way that consonants are pronounced (or dropped) and t he way vowel sounds are made. Accent can also vary according to the region or social class of a speaker. Context  The situation or circumstances in which speech takes place. This will impact greatly on the speech encounter and the way that speakers will vary their speech according to the recipients and the environment.  Dialect The distinctive grammar
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (indeterminate‚ 1881–10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer‚ revolutionary statesman‚ and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President. Atatürk became known as an extremely capable military officer by being the only undefeated Ottoman commander during World War I.[1] Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire‚ he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara‚ he defeated
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The Story of Human Language Part I Professor John McWhorter THE TEACHING COMPANY ® John McWhorter‚ Ph.D. Senior Fellow in Public Policy‚ Manhattan Institute John McWhorter‚ Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute‚ earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell University. His academic specialty is language change and language contact. He is the author of The Power of Babel: A
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FREE TRADE‚ IMPORT AND EXPORT Capitalism’s last evolved version: neo-liberalism is in the every corner of the world now. In this system‚ one of the most important‚ main subject is free trade. Some people think we shouldn’t import. They say when we buy product‚ GNP can’t improve. In other hand‚ some people say we should import. They think everybody should specialize in best product. Thus‚ products are getting more economic. However‚ I don’t believe that we can’t make a decision about what
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Ataturk‚ a Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer in the Ottoman military‚ revolutionary statesman and the first president of Turkey who was born in 1881. First he was enrolled in a traditional religious school‚ in‚1893.Then he entered a military high school where his mathematics teacher gave him the second name Kemal (meaning ‘’perfection’’).Because he excelled in academics. His original name is Mustafa Kemal‚ but in 1934 his constituents gave him the name Ataturk
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to my crossbow‚ occasionally accidentallt bumping inot other soldiers beside me because of all of the chaos happening. 2. What does this person smell? I can smell the salty sea water in the air. 3. What does this person see? I see other fellow Turkish Soldiers surrounded around me. We all have weapons in our hands‚ whether it’s a crossbow‚ swords and shields‚ or spears. Most of the men are on the ship‚ but other’s are here on land‚ on top of buildings‚ and on ladders to get around the walls. 4
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Agglutinative language Jump to: navigation‚ search Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alignment Accusative Ergative Split ergative Philippine Active–stative Tripartite Marked nominative Inverse marking Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object Verb–object–subject OV languages Subject–object–verb Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject V2 word
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Language Attitude Language attitudes are the feelings people have about their own language or the language of others. Attitude towards a language can determine whether the language continues or whether it is eliminated. If a language has political and financial backing it has a good chance of surviving. If people perceive that the language can improve their social status and economic prosperity those are usually strong motivators for people to maintain or make a language shift – sometimes
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