LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CONTEXT – C. Nicora / L. Oholeguy Language varies not only according to social class‚ age and gender but also according to the social context in which we are immersed. Many aspects of the social situation can contribute to decide which linguistic variety is to be employed on a particular occasion. Another way to refer to social contexts is the term‚ used by Miriam Meyerhoff‚ "Social Networks": • Social Networks are groupings based on frequency and quality of members ’ interaction
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to tell other bees the exact angular distance available food is from the sun. However‚ could this really be considered language? Language‚ in a simple definition‚ is a system of communication and it seems as though bees have developed their own complex form of symbolic communication. However‚ language follows a set of guidelines as referred to in our lecture notes. Human language is multi-layered and all messages are divisible into a simpler form. The bee’s waggle dance lacks this type of distinct
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2012 Time: 9.00 am -9.30am Level: Advanced level. Theme: Chapter 13 [Waste Not‚ Want Not] Topic: Teach sentence construction using teaching material Language skills: For Informational Use – Construct sentence in Simple Future Tense General Objective: Students will be able to use both active and passive voices of Simple Future Tense. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the lesson‚ students should be able
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The American Dialect Society The Language of ’The Catcher in the Rye’ Author(s): Donald P. Costello Source: American Speech‚ Vol. 34‚ No. 3 (Oct.‚ 1959)‚ pp. 172-181 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/454038 . Accessed: 30/01/2011 11:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part
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CULTURE AND LANGUAGE In today’s societies of the world‚ there are many cultures inside of one country. All countries have their own unique ways of life in the differences of how people are raised and their different locations. Many people migrate to other countries and feel lost due to this. More frequently‚ nations have been trying to mingle their own ways with others in America to create diversity that goes around the world. I have been raised mostly in the southeastern coastal region of the
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English has become a global language because it is both easy to learn and is superior to other languages. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Nowadays‚ English has naturally been evolved as a global language over time despite the fact that it has been proved by researchers that is the third most native language in the world after mandarin Chinese and Spanish. A global language is a language spoken internationally which is learned by many people as a second language. For many years now we
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SHAKESPEARE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Multiliteracies‚ Technologies and the Bard 1 My experience as a drama teacher in public schools and my observations on prac is that high school students in English or Drama classes find Shakespeare frustrating and alienating. And for many non-English speaking and Indigenous students‚ Shakespeare requires a cognitive leap made doubly problematic by cultural distance. In many ways‚ it’s like learning another language‚ hence the title of my investigation. I intend
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of Language." (Jakobson’s terms honored over Yaguello’s) Sue Smith‚ snsmith@u.arizona.edu Yaguello‚ Marina. Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Trans. Marina Yaguello and Trevor Harris. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 1998. The speech event‚ an act of verbal communication‚ brings into play 6 features‚ closely interdependent. An utterance does not necessarily/usually have only one function. CONSTITUATIVE FACTORS of a SPEECH EVENT Addresser THE FUNCTIONS of LANGUAGE PURPOSE
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Is it Language? In artifact number four my group was presented an image of “asemic art”. The image shows several variations of strokes. The image seems to be composed of circular or rounded strokes. There weren’t any strokes that seemed particularly sharp. In this image; there seems to be an element of creativity‚ which is a characteristic of language. I consider artifact four as a language because it’s creative‚ complex and redundant. However‚ there are some that would disagree because the writing
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by the language he or she uses. In an essay of not more than 400 words‚ discuss with reference to the characteristics and salient features of DIALECT‚ SOCIOLECT and IDIOLECT. Linguists commonly use language variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language‚ including dialect‚ idiolect and social dialect. The use of the word variety refer to those different forms that avoid the use of the term language‚ which many people associate only with the standard language‚ and the
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