1. INTRODUCTION As learning an additional language is regarded as being competitive and advantageous‚ there are more and more bilinguals and multilinguals in many places worldwide‚ and Hong Kong is one of these places. With a majority of the population being able to master a number of languages‚ code-switching‚ which is the alternate use of (more than) two languages by a bilingual (or multilingual) within a discourse‚ is undoubtedly a common and frequently occurring linguistic phenomenon in
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NTNU | A comparison of the bilingual and the multicompetent | HOME EXAM – ENG2153 | | Flittig Student | Spring 2013 | Exercise 5 | A comparison of the bilingual and the multicompetent Previously‚ monolingualism was seen as the norm and the natural case of language development and consequently‚ bilingualism was devaluated (Meisel‚ 2004: 91). Today‚ however‚ this belief has changed and researchers point to the many advantages of bilingualism. Still‚ not all are provided with the
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foreshadows the evil to come. They boy’s unfortunate end serves as a reminder of guilt for Ralph‚ who does not notice that the child is missing until Piggy notifies everyone. The mulberry-marked boy’s death signifies a weakening of the newly formed societal structure on the island and predicts further instability. Simon’s death indicates the fear of the beast which is held within the boys. As the beast approached from a distance‚ the boys chanted‚ “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! .
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Karen‚ K. Y. C. (2003). Codeswitching for a Purpose: Focus on Preschool Malaysian Children Malik‚ L. (1994). Sociolinguistics: A Study of Codeswitching. New Delhi: Anmol. Merrit‚ M.‚ Cleghorn‚ A.‚ Abagi‚ J‚ and Bunyi‚ G (1992). Sociolising Multilingualism: Determinants of Codeswitching in Kenyan Primary
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acceptable norm‚ is privileged‚ and is endowed in a sense of internalized superiority. The target is characterized as the social minority that is systematically vulnerable to “exploitation‚ marginalization…and violence” (Hardiman and Jackson‚ 2007). Societal oppression is often generational‚ which ingrains cultural values into both the agent and the target.
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By manipulating people’s invulnerability to physical harm‚ experimenters were able to use mental simulations to show the link with societal exclusion’s response to groups. Three studies were conducted to show these responses and account for whether feelings of exclusion changed behavior in a positive or negative way to in-groups and out-groups. It was also taken into account whether the change was due to invulnerability to physical harm or elimination of pain. They found that the elimination of threats
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Parable of the Sower takes place in Octavia Buttler’s apocolypse (Old English‚ via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis‚ from apokaluptein ‘uncover‚ reveal‚’ from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’). In an interview‚ Buttler said that when writing the book‚ she took many of the issues of the modern world and took them to their natural conclusion. In doing so‚ by defintion‚ Buttler has created an apocalyptic work. For Parable of the Sower to be fully understood‚ one must first
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there that we can learn from the past that would help us avoid declining or collapsing in the way that so many past societies have? Obviously the answer to this question is not going to be a single factor. This is a complex subject. In analyzing societal collapses‚ I’ve arrived at a five-point framework -- a checklist of things that I go through to try and understand collapses.” (Diamond‚ 2003). The first item that Diamond got in his framework is Human impacts on the environment: people have to
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Can a monolingual intellectual who is a perfectionist in only one language be able to interpret ur ideas into another? Here in the article‚ EPW oct 10 2009 vol 41 where raman points out that “intrinsic merit of ideas “ is quite independent of “societal reach” and has no impact on the merit of ideas. But guha didn’t agreed to this statement as newer interactions not only leads to enrichment of ideas but also refinement of ideas. And nobody can say that the debate between the two bilinguals Gandhi
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John J. (1971). Language in Social Groups. Stanford University Press‚ Stanford‚ California. Maaw‚ Joan (1971) ”Socio-Linguistics problems and potentialities of Education through a foreign language” in Language use and Social Change: Problems of Multilingualism with special reference to Eastern Africa‚ W.E Whiteley (ed.)‚ Oxford University Press‚ 1971. ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online) Vol 2‚ No 5‚ 2011 www.iiste.org Lambert‚ W.E (1977) “Effects of Bilinbualism on the individual” in Bilingualism:
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