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    Sarah Gonzalez Chinese Culture VS American Culture It doesn’t matter what kind of ethnicity you are‚ or how you were brought up. Everyone is deeply rooted in their own culture. “Culture” has a different meaning to everyone. Comparing American culture to Chinese culture we will find many different meanings to the word “culture”. For example‚ we Americans are always looking for something bigger and better for our future‚ and the Chinese are content with a small reserved lifestyle with no intentions

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    Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valery BrusovPaper Corpus Linguistics‚ Lexicology and Translation Subject- Lexicology Faculty- IC Year - II Group - III Lecturer - K. SoghikyanStudent – Mane Nersisyan1586865360044Yerevan 2013 0Yerevan 2013 Introduction This paper includes information about corpus linguistics‚ its connection with lexicology and translation. The latter is the most important one and I am keen on finding and introducing something which is mainly connected with my

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    of Japanese and American Culture Abstract There are some interesting issues engaging gender and cultural diversity in non-verbal communication. It begins by looking over gender variations in body language and the different uses of gestures and posture in comparing the Japanese and American cultures. Nonverbal communication is used in all social settings. Many times nonverbal communication is not seen for its real definition. In this period of internationalization the American education method

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    STRUCTURALISM IN LINGUISTICS Introduction It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas‚ nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather‚ I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and other transformationalists. Structuralism in linguistics has come to

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    Historical Linguistics Sound change based on Campbell (2004) Introduction: The sounds of languages tend to change overtime. The question‚ then‚ is what kinds of sound change take place? Kinds of sound change 1. Regular or sporadic 2. Conditioned or unconditioned 3. Phonemic or non-phonemic 1- Regular or sporadic In general ‘sound laws admit of no exceptions’. That is‚ a change will take place wherever the sound which undergoes the change is found in the environment that conditions

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    Linguistic Segregation

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    Linguistic Segregation Draft 3 Throughout the history of the United States‚ the issues of racism‚ sexism and segregation have always been stressful because of all the immigration. When it came to the education of immigrant children who did not speak English and stood out otherwise‚ we often did not know what to do. We have always been striving to eliminate these prejudices‚ and even though we recovered from most types of segregation‚ we are still trying to eliminate the problem of language differences

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    Linguistic Anthropology Ever since I was seven years old‚ I’ve wanted to be a writer; more specifically‚ a poet. I think for my chosen profession‚ linguistic anthropology would benefit me better than any other field of anthropology. According to the Department of Anthropology of California State University‚ “Linguistic anthropologists are interested in how many languages there are‚ how those languages are distributed across the world‚ and their contemporary and historical relationships. We

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    Spanglish & Linguistics

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    Spanglish is a well-known term that describes the linguistic behaviors on Spanish speakers‚ who’s Spanish is uniquely influenced from the English language. Spanglish can also be defined as a “mixed-code vernacular that includes a range of linguistic phenomena‚ most notably code-switching”. Despite the fact that Puerto Rican linguist‚ Salvador Tio‚ coined the term ‘Spanglish’ in the late 1940’s‚ this language contact phenomena has actually been used over the past 150 years‚ since the Treaty of Guadalupe

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    Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings ≥ Cognitive Linguistics Research 34 Editors Dirk Geeraerts ´ Rene Dirven John R. Taylor Honorary editor Ronald W. Langacker Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings Edited by Dirk Geeraerts Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton‚ The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG‚ Berlin Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI

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