Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib and Enaq H. Sabbah Language Choice in Mobile Text Messages among Jordanian University Students Abstract This paper examines the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of ArabicEnglish code-switching in mobile text messages as used by a group of Jordanian university students. It also aims at investigating the distribution of the switched elements by syntactic category. The corpus was collected from 46 male and female undergraduate and post-graduate students. Qualitative
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A Message to Garcia This book was written by a man named Elbert Hubbard on February 22‚ 1899. It was written in just one hour and was originally intended as a filler article in a magazine. The author actually thought so little of the essay that he ran it in the magazine with out a heading. The essay was such a hit it was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book selling over 40 million copies. And it was also made into two different motion pictures. The article was a simple story of a man giving
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A study of the representation of women in the action film genre and the social messages and values constructed and conveyed. In this essay‚ I will be looking at the representation of women in the action film genre and studying the social messages that are constructed and conveyed by the medium. The two media texts I will be comparing from are ‘ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ (1984) and ‘Tomb Raider’ (2001). The female lead in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ is Willie Scott who is
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The types of journey we go through include physical and inner journeys. Physical journey involves the obstacles that we go through and the movement to new places. These obstacles and challenges will lead us into our inner journeys‚ which involves the exploration of ourselves as we get matured by learning from our experiences. In "China Coin" by Allan Baillie‚ Leah Waters undergoes physical journey when traveling from Australia to China. Her journey in China involves going to cities and outskirts
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ONE OF THE MAIN MESSAGES IN “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” IS THAT LOVE ELEVATES AND MONEY CORRUPTS. DISCUSS. The allegory of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” can be shaped by a variety of different outlooks. Dickens incites the reader by including a riddle of messages‚ some messages may be more imperative than others. One of the most outstanding messages within the novella is centred on money and love. The crux of Scrooge’s life is based on money‚ greed and gain twisted his ideals so to make him a wicked
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Priestley show his message of social responsibility in the play “An Inspector Calls” In the play “an inspector calls Priestley shows him message of social responsibility in 5 ways‚ through The Inspector himself‚ my Birling‚ the younger generation‚ Eva smith and the actual ending of the play itself. Social responsibility is where the community needs to care about each other or does care about each other but this wasn’t around before the wars. Priestley puts forward his message through The Inspector
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In the novel ’Tomorrow when the war began ’‚ courage is the central message. The WordWeb dictionary defines courage as ’a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear ’. This is exactly what John Marsden‚ the author‚ tried to make clear in the novel. The novel is about 7 teenagers that were forced to live in the bush because of the invaders that took over their country. Each of the characters came to a difficult time in the novel and to overcome that difficulty
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Why do Advertisers use Cognitive Principles to Increase People’s Awareness of Their Message Advertisers have been said to use certain principles of visual search‚ visual perception and attention‚ to increase the possibility of individual’s noticing their message. This essay will discuss the foundations of cognitive psychology and the relevant theories behind this statement above‚ such as attention‚ selective visual attention‚ Perception‚ and visual search processes for consumers. The bottom-up‚
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre - Literature What are the main moral messages of Jane Eyre? How does Charlotte Bronte convey these moral messages to her readers? To what extent is she reflecting Victorian morality in her writing? The novel ‘Jane Eyre’ was published in 1847‚ which was in the Victorian era; this is a significant fact to remember while reading the novel as the storyline portrays many different moral issues in the point of view of Victorian morality‚ which of course is different to
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Liz Jansen From Dryden to Blake British English 10-01-2013 1415 words Hidden Messages of the Dressing Room Satires On Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Jonathan Swift is one of the most famous poets from the eighteenth century. He has written many satires including “The Lady’s Dressing Room”. This poem is about a man named Strephon and a woman named Celia. In the poem‚ Celia tries to make herself presentable to society while Strephon sneaks in her dressing room and there discovers
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