A hip-hop pioneer and savvy business mogul by the name of Russell Simmons believed that Hip-hop "speaks for the people who live in the worst economic straits since the Great Depression" (Life and Def: Sex‚ Drugs‚ Money‚ + God 26). A scholar by the name of Cornell West also believed hip-hop speaks for those that live in the ghetto‚ that it is a protest (Reese‚ 1998). Hip-hop is an expression. The hardened attitude that the boy who sits behind you in film class has‚ the slang you here kids yell at
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The topic of seminar: The main trends of Cognitive Linguistics in works of foreign (American and European) scientists Problem task: What principles of cognitive linguistics did G. Lakoff pay much attention at ? Describe his idea. Describe the study of spatial relationships and types of movement in the conceptualization of language‚ the concept of imaginative schemes and types of schemes. Describe the study of body based consciousness and language of humans. The idea of the concept of embodiment
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done. And if at the end the new form is now used instead of the old one it means it has already completed the change. That ’s called fait accompli ’. The changes spread depending on the social factors such as gender‚ status‚ age‚ region‚ etc. "Linguistic changes infiltrate groups from the speech of people on the margins between social or regional groups via the middle ’ people who have contact in more than one group" (Holmes 218) this is called change from group to group‚ and it determines that
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The Linguistic imperialism of Robert Phillipson 1. Linguistic Imperialism 1.1 The spread of English The stated aim of Phillipson’s 1992 book Linguistic Imperialism was to set out how English became so dominant and why‚ and to examine the role ELT pedagogy had in contributing to it becoming “the international language par excellence in which the fate of most of the worlds millions is decided.” (Phillipson 1992 p.6) While many writers had tackled the question before no one had done so from
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Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings ≥ Cognitive Linguistics Research 34 Editors Dirk Geeraerts ´ Rene Dirven John R. Taylor Honorary editor Ronald W. Langacker Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings Edited by Dirk Geeraerts Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton‚ The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG‚ Berlin Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI
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THE SIXTH SENSE by M. Night Shyamalan Converted to PDF and contributed by RonCecchini@comcast.net INT. BASEMENT - EVENING A NAKED LIGHTBULB SPARKS TO LIFE. of a basement. It dangles from the ceiling LIGHT‚ QUICK FOOTSTEPS AS ANNA CROWE moves down the stairs. Anna is the rare combination of beauty and innocence. She stands in the chilly basement in an elegant summer dress that outlines her slender body. Her gentle eyes move across the empty room and come to rest on a rack of wine
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Chapter 4: Linguistic Typology Chapter 4 Linguistic typology 4.1 Introduction Simply speaking‚ the study of universals is concerned with what human languages have in common‚ while the study of typology deals with ways in which languages differ from each other. This contrast‚ however‚ is not sharp. When languages differ from each other‚ the variation is not random‚ but subject to limitations. Linguistic typology is not only concerned with variation‚ but also with the limitations on the degree
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Love‚ N. (2013). The foundations of linguistic theory : Selected writings of roy harris. London: Routledge. Kaufman‚ B. A. (1975). Will the real jean Piaget please stand up: An epistemological critique of three Piaget-based early childhood curricula Marchand‚ H. (2012). Review: Contributions of Piagetian and post-Piagetian theories to education. Educational Research Review‚ 7‚ 165-176. Morehead‚ D. M.‚ Johnson‚ M.‚ & Stanford Univ ‚ CA ‚Committee ‚on Linguistics. (1972). Piaget ’s theory of intelligence
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Text linguistics Module I. Classificationally meaningful characteristics of the text as an integral and independent object of investigation. Lecture 6. Conceptual variability of linguistic interpretations of the text essence and status and their reflections in the models of the text descriptions. Problem for discussion Evolution of the text description approaches. Models of the text descriptions. Grounds for the chosen models and schemes of the text descriptions
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Linguistic Anthropology Ever since I was seven years old‚ I’ve wanted to be a writer; more specifically‚ a poet. I think for my chosen profession‚ linguistic anthropology would benefit me better than any other field of anthropology. According to the Department of Anthropology of California State University‚ “Linguistic anthropologists are interested in how many languages there are‚ how those languages are distributed across the world‚ and their contemporary and historical relationships. We
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