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    Linguistic Profiling

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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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    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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    Linguistics Essay

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    New Words in American English. Readings: Handouts: “Dictionary adds terms like chick flicks”; “Blog-blogger explained” “Words banned‚” newspaper article. Project Explained: Profile of an ethno-linguistic group in the Los Angeles area. CHEM 105B Chapter 13 – 7 hours Chapter 14 – 7 hours Mastering

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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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    Linguistic gambits

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    Bibliography: Brown G. and Yule‚ G. (1983) Discourse analysis. Cambridge: CUP. Danesi‚ M. (2004) A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. House‚ J. (2010) “Impoliteness in Germany” Intercultural Pragmatics Vol.7 No. 4 PP 561–595. Keller‚ E. and Warner‚ S. (1976) Gambits 1‚ 2‚ 3. Ottawa: Public Service. ----------------- (1988) Conversation Gambits:

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    Linguistic Oppression

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    WA1: Linguistic Oppression It only takes a few minutes to call someone out. But by changing and challenging this normalized language‚ you can actively work against behaviors and ideologies that are racist‚ sexist‚ homophobic‚ transphobic‚ elitist‚ ablist‚ sizist and overall‚ oppressive. Language oppression is any word that uses an identity or an identifier of belonging to a certain group (class‚ race‚ sexuality‚ ability‚ gender‚ etc.) as a negative or undesirable quality. It ’s a form of verbal

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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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    To discuss this issue‚ one must discuss Ferdinand de Saussure’s linguistic revolution. However‚ this cannot be achieved without mentioning pre-Saussurean linguistics. Throughout nineteenth and early twentieth century‚ the science of language was philology‚ and not linguistics. Philologists’ scope of activity was fairly limited to the analysis of the alterations that happened to a particular phenomenon in language‚ for example word or sound‚ throughout long expanses of time. Their main approach to

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    properties common to us all: innate structures universal to all man. Levi-Strauss focused his attention on the patterns or structures existing beneath the customs and beliefs of all cultures. Methodologically‚ Strauss drew his models from structural linguistics‚ analysing forms of social activity as though they were languages. In other words‚ the things a society does‚ the way people in this society act‚ is compared to language; behaviour is acted out unconsciously as is grammar in the case of language

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    PAPER LINGUISTIC

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    The Relationship between Components of Communication and Communication Process Iffatul Azizah 2013-B/1371500 Ilman Alvian 2013-B/1371504 Lucky Ayu Novitasari 2013-B/1371510 Miftakhul Imam Fauzi 2013-B/1371514 Abstract Communication has become a major necessity for our social life due to getting information or knowledge. Communication is a way of interaction from people to another people. Without communication‚ there will no input that will be gotten because input or information is very connected

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