A) Five signs which society has transformed over time into certain associations and connotations “Rude gesture” “Peace sign” This sign has two meanings‚ when it is viewed this way‚ it is a rude gesture‚ however if it was flipped it could also be seen as a symbol of peace. What is seen now as the “peace sign” once was used as a victory sign. The peace sign which is quite common amongst teenagers today symbolizes friendliness and general well- being
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Group paper of Anthropological Linguistic Lecturer: -Hj. Murni Mahmud‚ M. Hum‚ Ph.D. ANALYSIS OF THE USING SLANG LANGUAGE (BAD WORDS) IN MAKASSAR SOCIETY BY MOHAMMAD ASLAMMUDDIN (085214015) TRI WULANDARI (085214017) IHRAM CHARLY (105214017) ENGLISH LITERATURE FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR 2012 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background Language is a tool of communication. We can send information by communicate it. A communication can be a
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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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Often slang words such as "OMG‚ peng‚ lol‚ fam and convo etc " these words are commonly used on social network sites like Facebook‚ Twitter and MSN messenger; slang like this is becoming a vast growing trend with the click of a button a new word can be made and used by thousands of teenagers all over England. Whilst I was growing up‚ TV was big influence on me and it still is today as it is portrayed in American programmes such as family guy and jersey shore etc‚ these particularly use slang words
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or her experiences. Children grow up learning to speak in the language of their parents. A child born in Mexico‚ to Mexican Spanish speaking parents‚ is not going to naturally understand American English. Accents are similarly acquired through experience. American English encompasses the whole of English spoken in the United States‚ but it will sound different if you were raised in Wisconsin than if you were raised in Texas. A person will tend to use different terms and words sound different based
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1. | Question : | Language performs a ________________‚ which means it allows you to explore and investigate the world‚ solve problems‚ and learn from your discoveries and experiences. | | | Student Answer: | | Personal function | | | | Interactional function | | | | Ritual function | | | | Heuristic function | | Instructor Explanation: | The answer can be found in Section 4.2 of Making Connections. | | | | Points Received: | 1 of 1 | | Comments: | |
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The word that I chose that can double as slang is Busted. The word has many different meanings depending on the environment in which the word is used and depending on the person‚ and‚ or generation using the word. According to the dictionary‚ the word Busted is the past tense or past participial of the word bust and is from a dialect pronunciation of burst. Bust is both a noun and a verb and has a wide variety of meanings for both uses. Many are slang or informal (Random House‚ 2016). The word Busted
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senses‚ thinking‚ feelings creativity and the way we think. It is imperative that we must understand the phrases and meanings of words before they can properly be used. When language is shaped properly‚ it will assimilate into a culture. Since the English language is rich and varied‚ it offers an array of choices when communicating. Here are a few of those choices. An idiom is a phrase that when spoken outside of a particular culture it seems incomprehensible. This peculiar use of phrases is not taken
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certain‚ but the author hints at the narrator being African-American. The speaker makes references to "jazz swing" and talks about writing a blues song. He also makes an obvious attempt at getting our attention by capitalizing the just-approved English slang word "ain’t"‚ which was typically considered a southern black saying; he says "Making jazz swing in / Seventeen syllables AIN’T / No square poet’s job." Knight composes the images of "rocks" and "lizards"; "rocks" are the stones on which the
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The generational gap is a term popularized in Western countries during the 1960s referring to differences between people of younger generations and their elders‚ especially between children and their parents.[1] Although some generational differences have existed throughout history‚ modern generational gaps have often been attributed to rapid cultural change in the postmodern period‚ particularly with respect to such matters as musical tastes‚ fashion‚ culture and politics. These changes are assumed
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