If everyone spoke one language‚ would it lead to better international relations? There is a strong social division between people who believe that it would be better to have one single language all over the world and other who defend that diversification of languages is not an obstacle to have good international relations. However‚ it is a waste of time to discuss about which option would be the most efficient because the first opinion is very improbable to happen. On the one hand‚ advocates
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1.3 Explain how different social‚ professional and cultural contexts may affect relationships and the way people communicate. When communicating with other professionals in school our language and behaviour should be more formal and official when speaking to other professionals or senior members of staff‚ over time this form of communicating will become automatic to that of informal or casual conversations of that in the staff room. I am aware that my job and social role may leave me open to
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Criticism Revision: Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the author.” Barthes argues that- Literature is studied through an understanding of authors not individual texts Text and author should be studied independently from one another Author should not be held solely responsible for the success or failure of a text as they are separate entities The responsibility of a text lies with the reader A text should be defined by the interpretation
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(Deep South Journey‚ December 1‚ 1959‚ 129) “Hell‚ I’ll buy all your turkeys…just to help you out. I’ll show you fellows that not all white men are bastards.” These are the words of a well-intentioned white man whom Griffin meets in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. The man attempts to show he’s not racist by offering to buy a load of turkeys from a black turkey vendor. However‚ as he doesn’t really want or need the turkeys‚ his gesture seems patronizing. Griffin notes that in being paternalistic
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1. i. The opening lines of this passage sets the scene ─ focusing on the distance of the described setting. This is further highlighted by lexical parallelism ─ the use of prepositions: ‘about’‚ ‘between’ and ‘beside’‚ as well as by the vocabulary associated with the ways of transport: ‘motor road’ and ‘railroad’. Also the writer has used semantic deviation ─ the use of the adverb ‘hastily’ and the verb ‘runs’ indicates movement. It is used here as personification to show the reader that the road
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The dictionary definition of Juxtaposition is “An act or instance of placing close together or side by side‚ especially for comparison or contrast” (Dictionary.com). In the book “NOD” by Adrian Barnes‚ uses the definition to give his book the theme in which he uses words to illustrate the slowly unmasking of social etiquette. By inserting words not normally used in a sentence together‚ Barnes is able to give his readers a sense of two worlds that are slowly bleeding into one another. One world‚ the
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“Postmodern media blur the boundary between reality and representation.” Discuss this idea with reference to the area of the media you have studied. Reality will never be the same for two different people. Jean Baudrillard believed that there is a problem with contemporary reality‚ he believed that the distinction between what is real and what is imagined is continually blurred and eroded. His theories are overly concerned with the idea that simulations of reality end up becoming “more real than
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Simulacra: An Analysis of Jean Baudrillard’s Theory of Signs Postmodernist thought is characterized by its skeptical interpretations of literature and philosophy‚ one of the most influential postmodernists is French sociologist‚ Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard’s thought emphasizes the‚ “reversal of the commonsense understanding of the relation of culture to nature‚ of sign to the thing signified‚” (1730) or that culture is built on top of nature‚ and that signs have taken priority over the signified
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The word structure is derived from the Latin word structura which means to build. The theory of structuralism is considered to be a part of French structuralism‚ started in 1950s‚ by the cultural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. It is developed by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics (1915)‚ who applied a variety of linguistic concepts in analyzing a literary text. His theory of the structure of language is considered as the origin of structuralism. Ferdinand de Saussure
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The world has an estimated 6‚000 plus languages. Disturbingly‚ by the end of the century‚ half of those languages will die out according to a UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The article‚ Preserving Language Diversity‚ reports smaller indigenous cultures are at a risk of losing distinct and group identity as a result of reduced linguistic diversity. Today it is possible to safeguard vanishing native languages and language diversity with tools such as the computer. Under conditions of marginalization
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