"Linguistic examples that define american culture" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 10 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Applied Linguistics

    • 4257 Words
    • 18 Pages

    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

    Premium Language education Second language acquisition Language acquisition

    • 4257 Words
    • 18 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Contrastive Linguistics

    • 6440 Words
    • 26 Pages

    Slovenski jezik – Slovene Linguistic Studies 7 (2009): 153–168 Biljana Božinovski Ljubljanska borza‚ d. d.‚ Ljubljana The Language of the Stock Exchange – A Contrastive Analysis of the Lexis V članku je podana analiza jezika borze s stališča slovensko-angleške protistave. Izrazje (samostalniške zveze) obeh jezikov smo protistavili tako v strukturnem kot v semantičnem smislu‚ pri čemer se je razkrilo več protistavnih značilnosti‚ med drugim različni načini ubeseditve istega pojma‚ terminološke

    Premium Stock market Stock exchange Translation

    • 6440 Words
    • 26 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    American Popular Culture

    • 568 Words
    • 3 Pages

    American Popular Culture The difference between Americans and people from all over the world is that Americans work for a living‚ that strive that American society has to buy and consume everything that is need it and sometime not need it‚ has make the United States of America the top economy of the world‚ every company looking to expand their market through globalization has to reach the United States of America market to maximize financial gain. This privilege position the America has comes from

    Premium United States

    • 568 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    In recent years‚ teenage pregnancy has been labeled a major issue amongst teens that it can be known as an "Epidemic." Is teenage pregnancy directly responsible for a host of society’s ills? Increasing teenage pregnancy rate translates directly into increasing rates of "school failure‚" early behavioral problems‚ drug abuse‚ child abuse‚ depression‚ and crimes. Many social problems can be directly attributed to the poor choices of teenage girls. The talk shows today are flooded by episodes dealing

    Premium

    • 2413 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    My American Culture

    • 653 Words
    • 3 Pages

    title of my essay‚ our identity is shaped by our culture. Many people assert‚ that culture is simply the way you live‚ but in my own conceit‚ culture are all the things (beliefs‚ values‚ traditions‚ religions‚ & behaviors) that as a person I learn‚ and define my actions or positions. Each individual is different from the rest of the population (including closest family members)‚ it’s not only genetics that make a person different‚ but also culture and society. Besides having different fingerprints

    Premium Culture Sociology The Culture

    • 653 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Intro to Linguistics

    • 7180 Words
    • 29 Pages

    10.2011 What is Linguistics? The study of human languages; including the influence of one language on another; how language and words are formed and change within time; the rules of the language- how words are formed‚ the structure of sentences and words; relationship between culture and language; how language is acquired- the process of language acquisition (foreigner verses mother tongue language). There are two approaches/types of linguistics: 1. Traditional Linguistics- the only field

    Premium International Phonetic Alphabet Phonology Linguistics

    • 7180 Words
    • 29 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Linguistic Typology

    • 7659 Words
    • 31 Pages

    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

    Premium Inflection Word Verb

    • 7659 Words
    • 31 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Linguistics and Change

    • 525 Words
    • 3 Pages

    change in some ways‚ it always maintain the original background but as it goes changing it may be that you won ’t recognize it that much. Like an example that is mentioned by Holmes‚ it says that the k of knit and knife wasn ’t silent in the fifteenth century. So it can be seen how important the matter of time is in language change. Another example given by Holmes is about the meaning of the words like once nice meant ‘precise ’‚ and before that it meant ‘fastidious ’ and earlier still it meant

    Premium Linguistics Language change Language

    • 525 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Linguistic Profiling

    • 932 Words
    • 3 Pages

    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

    Premium Racism American English Race

    • 932 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The History of Linguistics

    • 2115 Words
    • 9 Pages

    AND 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

    Premium Linguistics

    • 2115 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
Page 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 50