understanding of one another. If not‚ conflict at school could lead to broken ties‚ at home to hurt feelings‚ and in the workplace to discouragement. These negative outcomes may be avoided when conflict is handled properly. There is no single technique that works best for settling conflicts. What works in a school setting might not work at an office or at home. Regardless where or with whom the conflict is with‚ a person must examine themselves‚ his or her intentions and more importantly‚ core
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Sociolinguistics Language Variation What is Sociolinguistics? What Factors Enter into Language Variation? • Language does not exist in a vacuum. • Since language is a social phenomenon it is natural to assume that the structure of a society has some impact on the language of the speakers of that society. • The study of this relationship and of other extralinguistic factors is the subfield of sociolinguistics. • We will look in this section at the ways in which languages vary internally
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Rationale The writing depicts the gender role in literature‚ how males are shown to be significantly more dominant‚ physically and mentally. Sexism in literature is ubiquitous‚ in literature and language‚ as well as semiotics in certain cases. Literature from the last two centuries demonstrates a progression. Females were originally portrayed as feeble minded‚ nimble and weak characters‚ with little or no dynamics to their personification. Males were shown to be strong‚ intelligent and domineering
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The six functions of language The Referential Function corresponds to the factor of Message and describes a situation‚ object or mental state. The descriptive statements of the referential function can consist of both definite descriptions and deictic words‚ e.g. "The autumn leaves have all fallen now." Example: The party is going to start at 8 pm The Expressive (alternatively called "emotive" or "affective") Function relates to the Addresser (sender) and is best exemplified by interjections and
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his own feelings at his wife’s death‚ his wish to relive the past‚ his wish to be reunited with her and his feelings of despair and hopelessness at what life has become for him without her. To convey his theme to the reader‚ Hardy uses a range of language and literary devices such as juxtaposition‚ varied line length‚ sound devices‚ imagery‚ connotation‚ word choice‚ rhetorical question and repetition. In the first stanza Thomas Hardy illustrates his great grief at the loss of his wife. He misses
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Prosodic Features - Pitch - Tempo - Volume Non-Verbal Features - Gestures - Body language Accommodation Theory - Adapting your language to emphasise the difference between you and the person - Adopting their language features if you feel comfortable At the start Hardy is very relaxed and casual‚ he is sat comfortably in the chair when Jonathon asks him the question about his film. He is speaking slowly and answering the question confidently. Jonathon starts to ask him liking violence
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themes is the use of spoken language. ’No Sugar’‚ by Jack Davis is a stage drama which uses many different techniques of spoken language in order to shape the numerous themes that it presents. The use of tone‚ Nyoongah‚ which is the native Aboriginal language of Western Australia‚ expletives‚ slang language and idioms all compile in different ways to shape the themes in Davis’ ’No Sugar’. Some of the themes presented through the use of these spoken language techniques are inhumanity‚ inequality‚
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Tom McCarthy’s Remainder is a piece of metafiction that helps to “map the paradoxical remainder of the genre after everything novelistic has been subtracted from it”. It centres around a nameless narrator who‚ in the aftermath of an undisclosed accident‚ finds himself coming into eight and a half million pounds in compensation and uses said money to fund actors to replicate scenarios in order to find true authenticity. Marco Roth claims that the neuronovel “allegoris[es]the novelist’s fear of his
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(Begin by saying good morning in sign language) Specific purpose: To Inform my audience about communication by way of sign language. Thesis Statement: ASL (American Sign Language) has been around for quite a while‚ although Aristotle had a theory that people can only learn through hearing spoken language I. Aristotle was the first to have recorded anything about the deaf-blind‚ his theory was that people can only learn through hearing spoken language. A. According to start-american-sign-language
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Techniques of Appreciating Poetry What is poetry? * Poetry is the creativity of a person’s imagination. * It is nothing but rhythmical‚ imaginative language expressing the invention‚ taste‚ thought‚ passion‚ and insight of the human soul. * Like any other literary work‚ poetry needs to be understood to be appreciated. * The writer writes for a reason. * The purpose may be to evoke emotion‚ inform‚ define‚ represent something of the world or life‚ and to entertain. * Whatever
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