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 successive sentences or utterances hang together is discourse. Discourse cannot be confined to sentential boundaries. It is something that goes beyond the limits of sentence. In another words discourse is ‘any coherent succession of sentences‚ spoken or written’ (Matthews‚ 2005:100)
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Rhetorical Analysis of “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan “So easy to read”(p.4). Amy Tan ends her essay‚ “Mother Tongue” with this short and even grammatically wrong sentence. She tells us this mother’s brief review is a proof of success of her writing. Why does she think that easiness is an essence of her writing? She suggests answers to this question by her essay. In her essay‚ Amy Tan effectively convinces her readers that “broken English” is not an inferior language‚ but just
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steal away your hearts. I am no orator‚ as Brutus is; but‚ as you know me all‚ a plain blunt man that love my friend. And that they know full well that gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit‚ nor words‚ nor worth‚ action‚ nor utterance‚ nor the power of speech to stir men’s blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know. Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds‚ poor poor dumb mouths‚ and bid them speak for me. But were I Brutus‚ and Brutus Antony‚ there were
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------------------------------------------------- Speech Acts in Kris Aquino’s tweets ------------------------------------------------- Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Sociolinguistics of the Graduate School of Ateneo de Davao University By Juliet G. Vasay Dennis C. Jaum ***** Ateneo de Davao University October 24‚ 2012 Acknowledgements _________________________________________________________________ The researchers would like to acknowledge
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The Compliments Responses across Gender in English and Non-English Department Nisa Eka Aprilia Study of English Education Language and Literature‚ Universitas Brawijaya Indonesia Email : nisanea@hotmail.com 1. Introduction In this era‚ a lot of female wants to be equal or wants to be on same level with male existence. Many female becomes feminist‚ sometimes they called womanist and they fought for woman emancipation. But they still have difference opinion between female and male‚ for example
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НЕГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ «МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ИНСТИТУТ МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА ЛИНК» Факультет лингвистики Кафедра лингвистики Контрольная работа №4 По дисциплине Общее языкознание Студент: Орлова Мария Андреевна‚ 5 курс ЗО Преподаватель: Киосе Мария Ивановна Дата сдачи: Жуковский 2015 Контрольная работа №4 Задание 1. Подготовить конспекты по следующим разделам: 1. Applied linguistics 1 History The term applied linguistics dates
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LECTURE 7: SYNTAX. BASIC SYNTACTIC NOTIONS. 1.General characteristics of syntax. The grammatical structure of language comprises two major parts – morphology and syntax. The two areas are obviously interdependent and together they constitute the study of grammar. Morphology deals with paradigmatic and syntagmatic properties of morphological units – morphemes and words. It is concerned with the internal structure of words and their relationship to other words and word forms within the paradigm
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communicate‚ is to be understood. Another goal is to be believed: we try to affect our audiences’ beliefs‚ desires and actions. Persuasion is the communicative act that carries out both these goals – an audience that has been persuaded has understood an utterance‚ and believed its message1. Accounting for the understanding aspect has typically been the work of pragmatic theorists‚ while explaining how attitudes change has been the focus of social psychologists. A plausible study of persuasion must bring the
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Paper on “Code-switching in Language Classroom” Author: Dianave D. Tangog I. Introduction Code-switching is frequently used in language classrooms. There are some research studies that recorded the frequency of code-switching utterances of students and teachers. Heather Coffey defined code-switching as the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. Everyone who speaks has learned to code-switch depending on the situation and setting. In an educational
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AND BACKGROUND Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener ( or reader) and it has more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves. Pragmatic is the study of the speaker meaning. It is involves the interpretation of what people mean in a particular context and how the context influences what is said. It is study of how speakers
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