Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e
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Thesis: Star Trek and Star Wars each posses similar and different general concepts‚ themes‚ and motives. Outline I. Technology A. Star wars 1. Weapons 2. Ships B Star Trek 1. Weapons 2. Ships II. Characters A. Star Wars Sean McGrann Enr. English II Compare/Contrast Essay 3/6/00 Star Wars vs. Star Trek Throughout the past two decades‚ two science fiction cult classics have rivaled each other. Both have strong followings of loyal fans that
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Regional perspectives historically influence many different aspects of the community. Typically‚ they are used to express certain attitudes‚ concerns‚ and ideals to ultimately translate to the public. Therefore‚ these perspectives create visions and attitudes that lead to plenty of opinion. However‚ what many do not realize is that these perspectives are the core to the judgement that will make up future actions and or behaviors. Regional influence is most commonly analyzed and visible among international
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REGIONAL TRENDS IN FDI CHAPTER II Salient features of 2011 FDI trends by region include the following: • Sub-Saharan Africa drew FDI not only to its natural resources‚ but also to its emerging consumer markets as the growth outlook remained positive. Political uncertainty in North Africa deterred investment in that region. • FDI inflows reached new record levels in both East Asia and South-East Asia‚ while the latter is catching up with the former through higher FDI growth. • FDI inflows to South
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Running head: REGIONAL INTEGRATION PAPER Regional Integration Paper University of Phoenix July 19‚ 2010 Regional Integration Paper To define regional economic integration would be to say to arrange an agreement between country’s that agree to manage trade‚ fiscal or momentary policies. Regional economic integrations is also defined as “agreements among countries‚ in geographic region to reduce‚ and ultimately remove tariffs‚ and nontariff barriers to the free flow of goods‚ services‚ and
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19 STARS : A Study in Military Character and Leadership Puryear‚ Edgar F. (1971). 19 STARS New York: Presidio Press 19 STARS was written by Edgar F. Puryear‚ Jr. I do not know much about the author. I completed a thorough search but was unable to find any information. The one thing that I do know of him is that he is fascinated with the study of leadership because he has written other books on it; examples include George S. Brown‚ General‚ U.S. Air Force: Destined for Stars‚ American Generalship:
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Running head: CAN THE MAGIC BE RESTORED? Suburban Regional Shopping Malls: Can the Magic Be Restored? Stephanie Austin Upper Iowa University Suburban Regional Shopping Malls: Can the Magic Be Restored? Imagine yourself as the manager of a struggling local suburban regional shopping mall. What do you think the mall should do to improve its performance? According to the textbook‚ the retail life cycle consists of the introduction‚ growth‚ maturity‚ and decline. (Perreault
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expansion is always the essential target of Star Industry Cooperation‚ especially in Viet Nam because there is a huge and potential market for eco-friendly windows and doors constructed by artificial wood. The report is written for providing strategies how to expansive our market in Viet Nam and views of operation department. It will also consider issues and solutions that related to market expansion. Expansion in Viet Nam is a changeling for every Star Industry ’s departments‚ particularly Operation
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Star Wars: A New Hope Though Star Wars has always been around for me to watch‚ I never took the initiative to watch it until now. It was fairly easy for me to realize that it was et "a long time ago‚ in a galaxy far‚ far away‚" where we learn of the adventures of Luke Skywalker‚ a lowly who finds himself stranded in the middle of an intergalactic civil war after encountering R2D2 and C3P0‚ which were two droids that had the secret and covert plans to help develop an engine of destruction known as
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REGIONAL AND SOCIAL VARIATION IN BALI BY: I MADE PUTRA WIDIASMARA 1101305047 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT‚ FACULTY OF LETTERS AND CULTURES‚ UDAYANA UNIVERSITY 2014 1. Introduction 1.1 Background "The term sociolinguistics is used generally for the study of the relationship between language and society" (Yule‚ 2006‚ p.205). Sociolinguistics is a branch of applied linguistics which studies the language in relation to social elements; it is the study of relationships between language and social and cultural
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