English in India and the role of the elite in the national project the elite in the national project1 Annie MO NTAUT‚ INALCO (SeDyL)‚ Paris Published in Problematizing Language Studies‚ Cultural‚ Theoretical and Applied Perspectives‚ Essays in Honor of Rama Kant Agnihotri Akar Books‚ Delhi‚ 2010‚ pp. 83-116 (eds. S. I. Hasnain & S. Chaudhary) Abstract Introduced by the British colonization and today the official language of the Indian Nation in association with Hindi‚ English is spoken
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literary writing. This may also include liturgical writing. The difference between literary and non-literary (vernacular) forms is more marked in some languages than in others. Where there is a strong divergence‚ the language is said to exhibit diglossia. Classical Latin was the literary register of Latin‚ as opposed to the Vulgar Latin spoken across the Roman Empire. The Latin brought by Roman soldiers to Gaul‚ Iberia or Dacia was not identical to the Latin of Cicero‚ and differed from it in vocabulary
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jewishencyclopedia.com/ (accessed August 11‚ 2013). Lea‚ Thomas D.‚ and David Alan Black‚ eds. The New Testament: Its Background and Message. Nashville‚ Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers‚ 2003. Watt‚ Jonathan M.‚ and Stanley E. Porter‚ ed. Diglossia and Other Topics in New Testament Linguistics. Sheffield‚ England: Sheffield Academic Press‚ 2000. Zachariah‚ Katherine. Hellenisms: Culture‚ Identity‚ and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity. Surrey‚ United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing‚ 2008.
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Allan Bell The Language of News Media (περίληψη: Γιώργος Σαµαρτζής) Written by a linguist who is himself a journalist‚ this is a uniquely account of the language of media news. Allan Bell emphasizes the importance of the processes which produce media language‚ as stories are moulded and modified by various hands. He stresses it is indeed stories that journalists and editors produce‚ not articles. These stories have viewpoint‚ values and structure that can be analysed. He is concerned
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1 Table of Contents * Title Page •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1 * Table of Contents •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2 * Dedication ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••3 * Acknowledgements ••••••••••••••••••••••••••3 * Introduction ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4 * Background of Study ••••••••••••••••••••••••5-6 * Purpose •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••7 * Basic Questions to be Answer •••••••••••••••••••8 * Definition
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* what is anthropology? * Anthropology uses a holistic perspective to understand human culture and what it means to be human * The working definition: the empirical comparative study of humans as biological and cultural beings‚ informed by the overarching principles of cultural relativism and by the avoidance of ethnocentrism * Four Traditional Fields of Anthropology * Physical anthropology * Also known as biological anthropology. Examines the biological and behavioral
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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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Mutually unintelligible language‚ dialects or scripts competing for supremacy of dominance (ii) Mutually intelligible languages‚ dialects or scripts‚ (a) threatening mutual identity‚ (b) with mutually unfavorable attitudes. (iii) Existence of diglossia‚ triglossia or multiglossia. (iv) Existence of languages with dominant/minority relationship with a national frontier. (v) Social variables correlating with language use and creating communication zones. (vi) Official action in recognising official
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Minangkabau (Fundamental of culture‚ religion‚ belief and tradition) The Minangkabau ethnic group‚ also known as Minang (Urang minang in Minangkabau language)‚ is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra‚ in Indonesia. Their culture is matrilineal‚ with property and land passing down from mother to daughter‚ while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men (although some women also play important roles in these areas). Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra‚ while about
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Language‚ Memory and Identity in the Discourse of the Immigrant: A Dialogue Between Marlene Nourbese Philip and Ana Miranda Daniela Cordeiro Soares Silva Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais‚ Brasil Diaspora women are caught between patriarchies‚ ambiguous past‚ and future. They connect and disconnect‚ forget and remember‚ in complex‚ strategic ways. James Clifford Marlene Nourbese Philip and Ana Miranda are two contemporary authors writing from two different contexts. Philip‚ an immigrant
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