The Use of Literature in Teaching English as a Foreign Language By: Amr Alhemiary Abstract This research aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading‚ writing‚ speaking and listening)and language areas(i.e. vocabulary‚ grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary text in a foreign language classroom‚ suitable situations for teaching literature and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts
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would be useful to define some terms used in language testing. Language tests have been divided into four categories based on their use: a) language aptitude tests are used to predict probable success or failure in certain kinds of language study. In other word this kind of testing predicts how a student will perform on a course. b) language achievement tests are
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4 Stylistic Features of Language Speech communication employs a host of expressive means ranging from linguistic to paralinguistic and extralinguistic features. It is the natural language‚ however‚ whose systematic variation on all levels of its structure (phonology‚ morphology‚ lexicology and syntax) offers the widest possibilities of suiting its use to fit communicative functions of discourses in various contexts. Thus linguistic expressive means‚ which are systematically identified and cetegorized
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Political Discourse Juraj Horváth Abstract This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same‚ enshrined in his inaugural address. Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in critical discourse analysis‚ claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not possible to ’read off’ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to diverse interpretations"
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Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov COURSE PAPER THEME: IMPERATIVES AS DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS Faculty: LIC Year: 3rd Group: tourism 1st Student: Nare Yeremyan Supervisor: Gayane Barseghyan Yerevan 2011 INTRODUCTION At present it has become quite obvious that a good amount of comprehension must be ascribed not to the rules of language‚ but to our ability to infer what the speaker’s intentions are in saying what he says. Linguists try to explain this
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Методичні вказівки до організації і проведення самостійної роботи з курсу «Теоретична граматика англійської мови» для студентів ІV курсу англійської філології Самостійна робота |№ |Назва теми |Кількість | |з/п |
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PARIS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE PROFESSIONAL MBA SEPTEMBER 2010 22ND BATCH TAKE HOME EXAMINATION Course: INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT NAME: DANIEL AFEDZI STUDENT NUMBER: WA 10209 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. SOLUTION TO QUESTION 1............................................Page 3-9 2. SOLUTION TO QUESTION 2 ...........................................Page 10- 14 3. SOLUTION
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of pragmatics 1.2 Pragmatics and linguistics 1.3 Structure of the book 2 Semantics and Pragmatics 2.1 The borderline 2.2 Sentences and utterances 2.3 Language and logic 2.4 Mood 2.5 The explicit and the implicit 2.6 Presupposition 2.7 Deixis 19 19 21 23 27 29 32 39 3 History of Pragmatics 3.1 Structuralism 3.2 Logical positivism 3.3 Ordinary language philosophy 3.4 The beginnings of pragmatics 44 44 47 49 52 4 ‘Classical’ Pragmatics 4.1 Speech act theory
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protagonists’ entries sprinkled with emoticons such as ‘ :-/ ’‚ laughter acronyms such as rotfl (‘rolling on the floor laughing’)‚ expressive punctuation‚ and the like. If a discussion of language change and digital media focused on just features of this kind‚ we could safely assume that a process of change has largely been completed. These anecdotal observations suggest that certain new features of written language are part of the usage of a generation sometimes called the ‘digital natives’‚ and subject
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Tourism and Hospitality Research http://thr.sagepub.com/ Slow food versus fast food: A Zimbabwean case study of hotelier perspectives Muchazondida Mkono Tourism and Hospitality Research 2012 12: 147 originally published online 14 December 2012 DOI: 10.1177/1467358412470556 The online version of this article can be found at: http://thr.sagepub.com/content/12/3/147 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Tourism and Hospitality Research can be
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