PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS Stylistics‚ sometimes called l i n g u o - s t y 1 i s t i c s‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investi-gation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontol-ogical features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the
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Linguistic Battle of the Sexes “American men tend to talk more than women in public situations‚ they often talk less at home” (Tannen). Even though it sounds unreal‚ this is a large problem when it comes to communication between men and women‚ whether it is their cultures‚ or society‚ but they have different impressions of communication‚ which have been created since their childhood. Deborah Tannen‚ in her article “Sex‚ Lies and Conversation” compares the styles of conversations on both men and
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Definition: • Halliday defines a stylistician as someone who can comprehend literary texts through a comprehension of their language structures. literary texts language structures. • Basically‚ this means that Halliday defines stylistics as: “The linguistic analysis of literary texts.” What is involved in stylistic analysis? 1. A literary text is looked at as made of language 2. A literary text is seen to consist of patterns and properties which are part of language 3. Those patterns of language
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Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language‚ or literacy
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LINGUISTICS: Language Learning Final Project Report STYLE SHIFTING Topic This research report focuses on studying style-shifting in everyday language. It must be noted that the focus is solely on monolingual style shifting and not on bilingual code-shifting. Although some of the characteristics may be the same‚ the two are very different aspects of language in that style-shifting refers to changes in the type of language‚ such as casual or formal‚ that people speak whereas bilingual code-shifting
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History of historical linguistics Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of philology‚ the study of ancient texts and documents‚ which goes back to antiquity. At first historical linguistics was comparative linguistics and mainly concerned with establishing language families and the reconstruction of prehistoric proto-languages‚ using the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The focus was on the well-known Indo-European
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History of Neuro Linguistic Programming Abstract This paper covers the history and development of Neuro Linguistic Programming in the field of psychology covering its techniques and its growth from behavioral modeling and the influences of Gestalt psychologists Fritz Perls; Virginia Satir‚ and Milton Erikson. Richard Bandler and John Grinder are considered the fathers of Neuro Linguistic Programming and this paper covers the skills they developed and their discovery of the ways to identify
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German and English Linguistic Differences The English language and German language are two of the most popular languages spoken across the globe. English is the 3rd most popular language in the entire world with roughly 365 million speakers. German has a total of 92 million native speakers‚ with about another 80 million that know German as their second language. There are 88 sovereign states in total where English is considered an official language including India‚ United Kingdom‚ Pakistan‚ and
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Cultural and Linguistic Differences Cultural and Linguistic Differences Shabana P. Siddiqui ECE 405: Children and Families in a Diverse Society Inst. Lammert-Arndt 6/14/12 Linguistic Differences 01 People from all walks of life have gathered in the United States to live their lives. What follows is a flood of cultural and linguistic differences. The way one person from a particular culture would say” hi” could be another
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historical linguistic. 2. Language is the system of systems. Discuss. 3. Write a critical note on Phoname Vs Allophones 4.Define language discuss the features of language 5. What is a consonant? Explain different consonants? 6. What is linguistic? What is the scope of linguistic? 7. Explain Synchronis and Dichronic/ Syntagmatic and paradigmatic B: 1. Write a note on T.G. Grammar 2. Explain basic and derived sentences C: 1. What is Socio linguistic? What is the scope of socio linguistic 2.
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