extra-scientific members of a social community – be they politicians or citizens – have limited presuppositions of making a rational contribution to the discussion of the goals of a science‚ lacking both knowledge and experience of the nature and possibilities of scientific work and presuppositions for appreciating the spiritual side of objective knowledge (see below). On the basis of available evidence‚ it is safe to say that few of them can distinguish between scientific insight and technological “progress”.
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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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to other branches of linguistics. Then‚ define yours. One of your reference should be “fundamentals of Pyscholinguistics by Fernandez and Cairns (2010)” Ø Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study in which the goals are to understand how people acquire language‚ how people use language to speak and understand one another‚ and how language is represented and processed in the brain. Psycholinguistics is primarily a sub-discipline of psychology and linguistics‚ but it is also related
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John Baugh in his article “Linguistic Profiling” (2003) discusses “linguistic discrimination based on speech or writing” (2003‚ p. 155). The article discusses the negative and positive effects that linguistic profiling has on people‚ specifically on the people with an “undesirable accent or dialect” (2003‚ p.155). Much like racial profiling and its negative effects on people of color‚ linguistic profiling is the practice of imposing certain social characteristics on people who speak with a particular
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The absence of conflict is not harmony‚ it’s apathy. How MANAGEMENT TEAMS CAN HAVE A GOOD FIGHT by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt‚ Jean L‚ Kahwajy‚ and LJ. Bourgeois III Top managers are often stymied by the diffieulties of managing conflict. They know that conflict over issues is natural and even necessary. Reasonable people‚ making decisions under conditions of uncertainty‚ are likely to have honest disagreements over the best path for their company’s future. Management teams whose members challenge
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How can we make a bigger impact with Green-Skilling? In the past decade‚ prompted largely by the work of CSIRO and Garnaut reports‚ new paradigms in human resource theory have emerged to offer fresh perspectives on the structure and development of the Australian workforce. Despite comprehensive research‚ statistical evidence (Holland & De Cieri‚ 2006)‚ and an increased awareness of the external forces impeding on the domain of green-collar work‚ skills development still remains relatively premature
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painting this negative picture of a beautiful art form. The media loves to headline stories of rival record labels beefing‚ riots that take place during concerts or shows at clubs‚ legal cases and arrests of artist‚ shoot-outs‚ and drug charges. No matter how much hip-hop attempts to elevate‚ it remains shackled to cliché (Bigger than Hip-hop‚ 4). Rap and violence continues to be linked in the media. Depending on your perspective‚ it is a violent‚ misogynist‚ profane genre‚ a commercially successful‚ mainstream
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changes. As the time goes the changes are more and more frequent and more and more significant. The technological development provides the people possibilities that were few years ago unimaginable. But all of us know that the more possibilities we have‚ the faster the life is. That is the typical characteristics of the modern era‚ of nowadays society‚ of our lives – we live quickly‚ our lives are full of chaoss and very often full of stress but on the other hand‚ the progress‚ the inventions and
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LITERATURE (PHD PROGRAM) LINGUISTICS DR VEYSEL KILIÇ ESMA ŞENEL Y1112.620021 HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language. The history of linguistics is a branch of intellectual history‚ for it deals with history of ideas- ideas about language- and not directly with language itself (Law‚ 2003‚ p.2). Many histories of linguistics have been written over the last two hundred
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UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FALCUTY OF POST- GRADUATE [pic] FINAL ASSIGNMENT Subject: APPLIED LINGUISTICS Topic 5: DISCUSS SOME OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNER’S ACHIEVEMENT IN SECOND/ FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING Lecturer: Dr. Hoàng Văn Vân Learner : Nguyễn Thị Huyên
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