The book Muiris Ó Laoire (2004) reviewed is entitled Sociolinguistics: A resource book for students (Stockwell‚ 2002). The overall structure of this review is conventional‚ starting with a brief introduction‚ then a comprehensive summary‚ and finally some evaluative comments. However‚ there is no conclusion section in this review‚ which makes it a bit unconventional. The whole review adopts present tense consistently throughout with scattered inversions and unreal conditionals to mitigate the critisim
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Country Background Algeria‚ officially known as the Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Algeria‚ is located in Northern Africa. It borders the countries of Morocco‚ Mauritania‚ Mali‚ Niger‚ Libya‚ Tunisia‚ and the disputed land of Western Sahara. Algeria has a prominent coastline‚ and its capital city of Algiers is located on a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The territorial size of the country is 2‚381‚740 square kilometers (919‚594 square miles) which is more than three times the size of Texas (U
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fundamentalists and the military government stems from Algeria’s experimentation with political liberalization. The attempt to create more points of view and more political parties in the government has backfired horrendously. The violence of modern day Algeria stems from the failure of mild democratization in the North African country. Following nomination by the National Liberation Front (FLN) party‚ Chadli Bendjedid was elected President in 1979 and re-elected in 1984 and 1988. The National Liberation
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Algeria (English i/ælˈdʒɪəriə/ Arabic: الجزائر‚ /al-jaza-ir/‚ Berber: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ‚ /ed-dzayer/)‚ officially The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria‚ is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers. Algeria is a semi presidential republic‚ it consists of 48 provinces and 1541 communes. With a population exceeding 37 million‚[5] it is the 34th most populated country on Earth. With an economy based on oil resources‚ manufacturing has suffered from
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2. The notion of communicative competence‚ origins‚ communicative competence vs. linguistic competence‚ components of communicative competence Communicative competence – the ability to understand and use language effectively to communicate in authentic social and school environments. The idea was originally derived from Chomsky’s distinction between competence (shared knowledge of ideal speaker-listener set in a completely homogenous speech community) and performance (process of applying underlying
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and Algeria from France‚ by evaluation‚ it can be determined rather not the decolonisation of these two countries caused more problems than solved. Conversely‚ The Algerian Revolution began in 1954‚ with an uprising across the country by the FLN. The UN General Assembly recognised Algeria’s right to independence in 1960‚ but official French recognition of it did not come until 1962‚ when the war ended. The way to interdependence was a messy and violent process as The French viewed Algeria as a
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Algeria is home to millions of people‚ including those of all faiths. As one of North Africa’s leading military powers‚ our government swore to protect the people of Algeria. However‚ the recent encroachment of the ISIL group throughout much of Syria and Iraq has caused major concerns throughout the international community. ISIL is growing stronger everyday‚ and they have been encouraging jihad towards western countries. It is the duty of Algeria to ensure the safety of our citizens‚ and action must
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Communicative Competence 1. Grammatical competence 2. Sociolinguistic competence 3. strategic competence 4. discourse competence 1. Grammatical competence Knowledge that is responsible for producing a structurally comprehensible utterance (related to formal aspects of language) Including grammar‚ vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ spelling‚ morphology‚ syntax and semantics Comparable with Chomsky’s linguistic competence 2. Sociolinguistic competence Knowledge that enables us to use the sociocultural
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Title: An Analysis of the Language Style Used in “two fast and too furious” film. Fields: sociolinguistics A. Background of the Study Too fast and too furious film is one of the most amazing films in 2003 year. This film was directed by John singleton. He is a famous director in the world. He had been directing many films. This film was become a winner by many awards held in Hollywood‚ such as BMI film music award in 2004‚ breakthrough male performance 2003‚ won teen choice award‚ golden
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2006 TURNING TO ORWELL TO UNDERSTAND ORWELL’S PROBLEM: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC VIEW Pedro Luis Luchini luchini@copetel.com.ar Adolfo Martín García infiniteplayer@hotmail.com Abstract ________________ Drawing on the works of groundbreaking linguists and sociolinguists of the likes of Noam Chomsky‚ Ferdinand de Saussure and Benjamin Lee Whorf‚ this paper traces the origins of Orwell’s Problem by depicting the fictional sociolinguistic scenario presented in the classic Nineteen Eightyfour. A syntactic
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