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background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ and believing. All the words use to describe social gatherings covered by the author James Paul Gee in his Article “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction.” Discourse is capitalized because the lowercase means connected stretches of language that make sense. The Discourse I use and
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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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Language and Mind – Spring 2013 – Second Practice Exam 1. Which of the following statements about parameters is FALSE? a. They specify the limits on possible differences between languages b. They do not belong to Universal Grammar # c. Their values must be “set” on the basis of experience 2. From the viewpoint of the principles-and-parameters theory‚ the process of language acquisition consists of: a. Setting the choice for each parameter that fits the language that is being acquired # b. Storing
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Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish—a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover‚ metaphor is typieully viewed as characteristic of language alone‚ a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason‚ most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found‚ on the contrary‚ that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life‚ not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual
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Internet has become our (teenagers) most used source of information and where we collect the most of our information. This can have grave effects on us and the way we process information. Sources: Nicholas Carr: Is Google making us stupid? James Patterson: The Literacy of Long-Form Thinking Mills‚ Kate‚ Dr. "Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence." Open Access Journal 4.3 (2016): 4-12. 16 June 2016. Web. 21 Oct. 2016. Main Idea 2 Social media and the impact it has on
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Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages‚ contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context‚ or language‚ like Chomskyan generative grammar for example. Interestingly even among applied linguists there is a difference of
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 13 (2000): 67-88 Text World Creation in Advertising Discourse Laura Hidalgo Downing Universidad Autónoma‚ Madrid lhidalgo@bosque.sdi.uam.es ABSTRACT This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s)‚ in particular‚ deixis and frame knowledge. The argument
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1.Discourse Studies in Modern Linguistics 1.1Discourse .Discourse has been defined by different linguists ‚and each one gives specific definition to it ‚and we will go through all of them . In other words discourse is a buzzword and used in many different ways. The term discourse refers “both to what a text producer meant by a text and what a text means to the receiver” (Widdowson 2007: 7). As Widdowson claims‚ “people produce texts to get a message across‚ to express ideas and beliefs‚ to explain
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Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods Volker Gast 1 Introduction: The subject matter of contrastive linguistics Narrowly defined‚ contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bi- or multilingual speakers‚ and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text‚ discourse)
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