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    Extended Case 2.1: Southern Prestige Industries‚ Inc. v. Independence Plating Corp. The plaintiff (Southern Prestige Industries‚ Inc.) initiated an action against the defendant (Independence Plating Corp.) in a North Carolina state court for a breach of contract. The plaintiff alleged that defects in the defendant’s anodizing process caused the plaintiff’s machine parts to be rejected by Kidde Aerospace. The defendant being a New Jersey corporation and having its only office and all of its personnel

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    In Priya Satia’s book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East‚ Satia states without the advanced network fostered by Britain’s intelligence agency and the exploitation of the Bureaus in the Arab world World War I would not have been as successful and swift in defeating Axis powers. Another point Satia makes is that knowledge of a region and its history are what can make or break a mission‚ war‚ or other actions. She follows this up

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    deciding factor as to which of the these three adaptive strategies an individual adopts is quite often a matter of overt "prestige" vs. covert "prestige." Overt prestige is acquired by those speakers who have command of a standard dialect (or dialects) that is socially defined as that spoken to gain social status within the wider community; often that of the elite. Covert prestige‚ however‚ is that acquired by those speakers desiring to belong; to be considered a member of a certain community. And

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    This is “part of a apparently universal phenomenon that sociolinguists call covert prestige” (Savan 377). Most other nations in the world have declared a universal language and they still have covert prestige. Margaret Lee was quoted by Leslie Savan saying that “speakers of a “standard” language (whatever the language) have favorable attitudes toward lower-class‚ nonstandard speech forms…

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    1. Introduction This paper clarifies the veritable meaning of British Creole since it is not only a Creole but an ethnolect of the Black British community‚ whereas some people may say that it is a vernacular of British English. The linguist Peter L. Patrick claims that British Creole is the product of contact between the Creole language varieties of migrants from the Caribbean‚ and vernacular varieties of Urban English English. (Peter L. Patrick 2003: 231) So one could say that British Creole is

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    from the discrimination committed against cultural communities in Australia. Members of these communities thus develop their own variation of the language‚ which may include unique words or meanings‚ in order to exclude outsiders. This form of covert prestige creates group solidarity and strengthens the fabric the ethnic groups. Welcome to Lebanese Australian English with Arabic flavourings! Australia’s Lebanese community is one of the earliest recognized ethnic minorities in the country. It’s

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    1 Table of contents: I. II. Introduction Language‚ Identity and Gender 1. 2. 3. Gender and the effect of stereotyping Development of a different language Gender variation in speech 3.1 3.2 3.3 Women‟s language Men‟s language (C)overt prestige – a case study S. 3 S. 4 S. 4 S. 5 S. 5 S. 6 S. 8 S. 9 4. (Mis)communication between men and women S. 10 III. Conclusion IV. Bibliography S. 13 S. 14 2 I. Introduction Language is undoubtedly the most important method of communication

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    Languages‚ dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today‚ and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`‚ ´Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main language of Sweden and is spoken approximately by 10 million people. Although until 2009 it was not the official language. The reason for that was

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    Language and Gender Key Theories Robin Lakoff 1975 • Claimed that much of women’s language lacked real authority when compared to men‚ and proposed a set of features that characterised women’s language as deficient when compared to men’s. • Believed Socialisation played an important role. (Part of deficit approach) Jenny Cheshire 1982 • Research in Reading looking at language of teenagers. • Found that boys used more non-standard forms than girls. Believed to be because boys were members

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    C) Similarly‚ Both brought out the creation of new and dangerous weapons. 1) WW1: Supported by artillery and machine guns‚ infantry assault‚ early airplanes and poisonous gas. 2) WW2: a) Nuclear power and missiles were used‚ modern concepts of covert and special operations. Submarines and tanks were also more heavily used. b) Encryption codes for secret communication became more complex. Topical Sentence: D) Similarly‚ Genocide was used to torture people from weaker countries. 1) WW1:

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