of structure and composition of the earth includes different branches such as geology‚ oceanography‚ meteorology‚ paleontology‚ etc. Life science is also known as biology‚ which deals with the study of evolution‚ development‚ distribution‚ structure‚ origin and function of the living things. It is categorized into different branches such as botany‚ genetics‚ zoology‚ medicine‚ etc. The mathematical science involves different branches such as arithmetic‚ algebra‚ geometry and calculus. The social
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2. How did Noam Chomsky’s theories revolutionize language teaching? (400 words) Chomsky is considered one of the most important linguists in the twentieth century. His main contribution in the field of linguistics is the influential "transformative-generative grammar" which is an attempt to describe the syntactical processes common to all human language mathematically (Smith‚ 1999). Chomsky draws a key distinction between the deep structure and surface structure of languages. He argues that the
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ancient age Indian people possessed great scientific acquaintance which they applied for the profit of community. The Vedic sciences are considered as the richest and most comprehensive science of ancient India. The Vedic sciences comprise various branches such as medicine‚ space science‚ astronomy‚ mathematics and there were several Indian scientists who studied and enhanced Vedic sciences. Aryabhatta I‚ Charaka‚ Sushruta and Panini were some of the eminent scientists of the ancient
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/15/london-school-bans-pupils-slang-innit London school bans pupils from using ‘innit’‚ ‘like’‚ and ‘bare’ A list of slang words and phrases have been banned as part of a new initiative at a school in south London. Given the chance‚ which slang words or phrases would you put a stop to? Carmen Fishwick theguardian.com‚ Tuesday 15 October 2013 15.47 BST Staff at Harris Academy Upper Norwood hope to improve awareness of formal language by banning a list
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are likely to affect meaning‚ and for understanding varieties of English and effects of style. It is thus one of the most fundamental concepts in linguistics. The study of semantics includes the study of how meaning is constructed‚ interpreted‚ clarified‚ obscured‚ illustrated‚ simplified negotiated‚ contradicted and paraphrased. The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics‚ concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition
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India also has a long tradition in the study of language. However‚ the linguistic tradition in ancient India was exclusively concerned with what is called descriptive or synchronic linguistics.[i] It refused to see that language is not just a self-referential object and its study assumes the organic relationship it has with the society and power. R. K. Agnihotri argues that “the primary preoccupation of linguistics has been the analysis of the structural properties of language” and the “process
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translation. Key words: translation ambiguity – polysemy problems – ambiguous and unambiguous texts – qualitative and quantitative – semantic ambiguity . Introduction Ambiguity is a pervasive phenomenon in language which occurs at all levels of linguistic Analysis. Out of context‚ words have multiple sense and syntactic categories‚ requiring Listeners to determine which meaning and part of speech was intended. Morphemes may also be ambiguous out of context ‚ as in English. Phonological forms are
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Лекции по теоретической фонетике Примерные вопросы для контроля знаний 1. Phonetics as a branch of linguistics. Phonetics and other disciplines. Applications of phonetics. 2. Branches of phonetics. 3. Aspects of the sound matter of language. 4. Components of the phonetic system of language. 5. National and regional pronunciation variants in English. 6. British and American pronunciation models. 7. Most distinctive features of BBC English and Network English. 8. The articulatory
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Mind mapping is a learning technique that uses several intelligences—visual/spatial‚ verbal/linguistic‚ logical/mathematical—to access the potential of the neo cortex and uses both hemispheres of the brain. Originated in the 1960’s by Tony Buzan‚ mind mapping helps learners see an overview of a topic and the details at the same time. It requires the learner to think about key concepts and their interconnectedness. Mind maps help organize information in a form that the brain can easily assimilate
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Introduction The term “shift” commonly refers to changes which occur or may occur in the process of translating. As long as translating is a language use‚ the notion of shift belongs to the notion of linguistic performance as opposed to that of theories of competence. Although the term “shift” was initially adopted by Catford as “departures from formal correspondence in the process of from the Source Text (ST) to the Target Text (TT)‚ other scholars like Levy‚ Popovic‚ Blum-Kulka‚ Hatim‚ M. Shlesinger
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