the winter was over and spring was coming and they had a festival to celebrate it and worshipped the sun for winning over the darkness of winter. In Scandinavia‚ and some other parts of northern Europe‚ the Winter Solstice is known as Yule and is where we get Yule Logs from. In Eastern europe the mid-winter festival is called
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Vonnegut ’s Slaughterhouse-Five." Notes on Contemporary Literature 26.2 (1996): 8-10. 5. Silva‚ Padmal de and Melanie Marks. "Intrusive Thinking in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: Concepts and Therapy. Ed. William Yule. Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology. New York: Wiley‚ 1999. 161-175. 6. Greiner‚ Donald. "Vonnegut ’s Slaughterhouse-Five and the Fiction of
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The Lincoln Memorial‚ designed after the temples of ancient Greece‚ is America’s foremost memorial to the 16th president. It is an example of neoclassical architecture. The building is in the form of a Greek temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln. Setting on the National Mall‚ the monument stands as the nation’s tribute to one of their greatest leaders. It took from 1901 to 1914 for construction to begin. Everything in the monument has some sort of meaning to it. Lincoln
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Listening is a demanding process‚ not only because of the complexity of the process itself‚ but also due to factors that characterize the listener‚ the speaker‚ the content of the message‚ and any visual support that accompanies the message (Brown & Yule‚ 1983). The Listener Interest in a topic increases the listener ’s comprehension; the listener may tune out topics that are not of interest. A listener who is an active participant in a conversation generally has more background knowledge to facilitate
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is the transactional function which is related to the communication of information and the other is the interactional function which is concerned with establishing and maintaining social relations between the members of a speech community (Brown and Yule 1983: 1). This latter function‚ which is also called the phatic communion‚ is of great importance since it is responsible for harmonizing people’s life. Trudgill (1974: 1) states that when two English people who have never met before come face to
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provided better facility to workers and as a result have created a space for themselves within the industry randomly Goodricke group‚ Jayshree Tea and Planatations‚ Barooah & Associates‚ Williamson Magor‚ Amalgamated Tea and Plantations Pvt Ltd‚ Andrew Yule & Company Limited and few others. On the other hand‚ majority of the companies have not been able to run their setups in a developmental manner because of lack of support from the Government of India. Tea has been a major source of foreign revenue
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California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. Montgomery‚ Michael. 1995. An Introduction to Language and Society. London: Routledge. Watts‚ Richard. 1992. Politeness in Language: Studies in its history‚ theory and practice. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Yule‚ George. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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From theory to practice: a pre-reading plan. Journal of Reading 25; 152-156. Ringler‚ L. H. and Weber‚ C.K. (1984). Thinking Approach to Reading. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ Ink. Wallace‚ C. (1992). Reading. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Yule‚ George (1985)‚ “The study of language: An introduction”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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For many girls‚ Little Women is a reading experience so stirring and lasting in impact that as adults they name their baby daughters after the characters. When they judge their daughters old enough‚ they press the book on their little Megs‚ Josephines‚ Beths‚ and Amys; often it is the same copy they read with their mothers‚ sometimes the one their mothers read with their grandmothers‚ occasionally an early or original edition that represents continuity through a hundred or more years. Louisa May
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Bibliography: -Levinson S. C. 1987. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -Mey‚ J. L. 1998. Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: Elsevier. -Yule‚ G. 1996. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. -Leech‚ G. N. 1983. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman.
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