Position paper Linguistic diversity creates a sense of cultural identity in an increasingly individualistic world and should therefore be preserved Introduction: In many ways‚ language provides a sense of identity. We establish our identity through our use of language. Language is so deeply embedded in culture that cultural identity is defined to a great extent in terms of language. In a more and more globalizing and individualistic world‚ this means
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A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Inflectional Bound Morphemes of English‚ Azerbaijani and Persian Languages: A Comparative Study Bahram Kazemian1 & Somayyeh Hashemi2 Abstract This study aims at contrasting and comparing inflectional bound morphemes of English‚ Azerbaijani and Persian languages in details to pinpoint any similarities and differences between them. To do so‚ an inventory of Azerbaijani‚ Persian and English inflections with examples and illustrations are listed to highlight
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Practice in Language Studies‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 6‚ pp. 1178-1187‚ June 2014 © 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187 Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama ’s 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—In the light of Halliday
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Linguistic assignment An essay about morphology Morphology which is one branch of linguistic .Its etymology is Greek: morph- means ‘shape‚ form’‚ and morphology is the study of form or forms. It was basically used in biology but then was used in the middle of the nineteenth century‚ has also used to describe the type of investigation. Morphemes are the elements form of linguistic message‚ or in other words a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. Morphemes can indicate the plural or
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meaning of the words in which it functions. Discussion If a root does not occur by itself in a meaningful way in a language‚ it is referred to as a bound morpheme. Examples (English) • Disestablish • Establishment • Establishments In linguistics‚ a stem is a part of a word. The term is used with slightly different meanings. In one usage‚ a stem is a form to which affixes can be attached.Thus‚ in this usage‚ the English word friendships contains the stem friend‚ to which the derivational
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hypothetical questions they address and their respective narrative functions. The table also provides information on the sort of linguistic forms that each component typically takes. With the exception of Evaluation‚ the categories listed on the Table are arranged Table C5.1 Labov’s model of natural narrative Narrative category Narrative question Narrative function Linguistic form ABSTRACT What was this about? Signals that the story is A short summarising about to begin and statement
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Speculative Anatomy Meets Articulatory Phonetics Human’s anatomy enables them to articulate a lot of sounds. However‚ there is a kind of alternate creatures named stumans that evolve completely different ways to eat and breath. Their oral cavities and breathing organs are not connected together. And therefore stumans evolve separate path to inhale air and eat food. Stumans’ anatomy nevertheless may influence their ability to produce speech sounds. Without the connection between the oral cavity
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1. Linguistic features of Germanic languages: vowels. Germanic languages also have some peculiarities in the sphere of vowel sounds‚ which distinguish them from other Indo-European languages. Their main characteristic feature in this sphere is the treatment of the Indo-European short vowels o and a and the long vowels o and a. Indo-European short o and a appear as short a languages. E.g.:in IE Germanic Russ. Яблоко germ. Apfel Lat. Noctem goth. Nahts Russ.ночь germ. Nacht Indo-European
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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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The higher date the calendar shows‚ the faster the development of the society is. Every era of human beings has its most significant invention or progress that represents the base for further development‚ further inventions‚ further progress – simply‚ for 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
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