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    Social Dialects

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    Social dialects Rothstain and S.Rothstain (2009)‚ they difined dialect a an aspect of language that refers to variation in pronunciation‚ words and‚ grammar of a specific language and as a part of every language‚ resulting from geographic‚ occupational and social differences. Read(1986)‚ said that dialect can be divided into social and regional varieties. Regional dialects are difened geographically; social dialect are difined by socioeconomic and sociocultural characteristics

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    Physical therapy has a very negative connotation maybe because of the requirement of exercise‚ that not many people like to do‚ or the amount of pain that can go along with it. In spite of the connotation it is a very positive necessity in life. Everybody’s goal when they start physical therapy is to get back in the same shape they were before the injury or better. It is treatment that can be really beneficial in the long run. As you get older so many things start to get tighter or ache‚ but if

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    Mcguinness Dialect

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    deep stereotypes as characters allows for their actions to be predictable. However when one reads through the play‚ one cannot help but recognize and appreciate the true fourth character‚ which is the language. The choice of having three English-dialects helps to create at atmosphere that is both familiar for the audience and comical from the start. Through the use of dark humor McGuinness is able take a dire situation and bring light to it. The men themselves use language as a means to bring light

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    Autonomy: Independence. Heteronomy: Dependence. Varieties of language are often referred to as “dialects” What is Clue-bearing role? Clue-bearing role helps people in the use of language‚ as it formulates an opinion about us‚ not so much from what we say ‚ but actually from how we say things. Clue-bearing role is a social function of language. - What is the definition of dialect? Is a kind of language which is distinguishable to a degree from other kinds of the same language

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    Music Jargon & Language

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    language. This creates the need for jargon – technical language that is primarily used to convey ideas efficiently and effectively. Jargon can also be used to include and exclude people from conversations and therefore be used to mark out people who understand the necessary language and those who do not. Taking the domain of music as an example shows just how important it can be to have knowledge of specific jargon within a group. There is some lexical jargon that is generally known by most musicians

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    Christopher Reeve is an actor who has become paralyzed and is at the democratic national convention to talk about the importance of passing the American Disabilities Act. He uses connotative diction to help the listeners understand his point of helping disabled people as a nation. For example‚ Reeve speaks about family values. He says that this nation is one giant family and explains the family needs to help family. He says that every person‚ no matter their “type”‚ has value. In paragraph 1 he

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    Idiom Paper

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    in the eye of the beholder means that different people will find different things beautiful and that the differences of opinion don’t matter greatly. 5. Better late than never This idiom suggests that doing something late is better than not doing it at all. 6. Better safe than sorry This idiom is used to recommend being cautious rather than taking a risk. 7.

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    Internet Slang

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    What does LMAO mean?This could be the only web page dedicated to explaining the meaning of LMAO (LMAO acronym/abbreviation/slang word).Ever wondered what LMAO means? Or any of the other 6659 slang words‚ abbreviations and acronyms listed here at Internet Slang? Your resource for web acronyms‚ web abbreviations and netspeak.    | All  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  Other | | | | What is LMAO? | | | LMAO is "Laughing

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    English and Arabic Idioms

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    The Art of Speech-Arabic Idioms Chapter Arabic-English dictionary for idioms‚ proverbs‚ politeness expressions‚ religious and Islamic expressions‚ slang and comparative spoken-written Arabic vocabulary.   The Arabic Idioms Written by Hussein Maxos Arabic for non-natives series by Hussein Maxos©‚ Damascus 1995-2003. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Index • Introduction…………………………………………….page 3 • Symbols and abbreviations………………………………. 6 • Section ‫6 .……………………………………ﺣﺮف اﻷﻟﻒ ا‬ • Section ‫71 ……………………………………ﺣﺮف

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    Language and Dialect

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    1528-3542/07/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.131 Toward a Dialect Theory: Cultural Differences in the Expression and Recognition of Posed Facial Expressions Hillary Anger Elfenbein University of California‚ Berkeley Martin Beaupre ´ University of Quebec at Montreal Manon Levesque ´ Omar Bongo University Ursula Hess University of Quebec at Montreal Two studies provided direct support for a recently proposed dialect theory of communicating emotion‚ positing that expressive displays

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