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Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Melting Pot or Tapestry How to Best Integrate Cultures

This paper argues that forcing people to abandon their own culture and language in favor of another is wrong. There are two sourc...

Global Issues, Centrality of Identity

This paper summarizes the points made in three of the students previous papers, which encompass the needs of older adults, global ...

Article Critique, Duranti

This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...

Article Review on Global Marketing

There are many pitfalls with global marketing. One is that words, phases, gestures, humor, and other issues do not translate very ...

American Slang, Changes in Language and Changes in Attitudes

(Mahoney, 2008). Language also changes because no two speakers use it exactly the same way (Mahoney, 2008). People speak using th...

Finding Peace in a Culture of War

individual is exposed to any type of experience there is the potential for that individual to be desensitized to any experiences t...

Sweeeeet! How Language and Culture Intermix

start of fancy, imagination and humor, breathing into its nostrils the breath of life" (Dalzell, 2005). Since Whitman wrote that (...

Wal-Mart's Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

IT Transnational Management

2008). More than a decade ago, Reimers (1997) reminded readers that building a transnational organization required total global ...

Teaching the Learning Disabled with Different Cultures and Languages

Almost any teacher in any elementary school could find ADD models that could accommodate virtually every child in class. Thankful...

Local Culture and Pidgin Language

In five pages this paper discusses the local culture that is reflected in the pidgin dialect. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Global Media, Culture, and Language

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...

The Intersection of Language and Culture

it seems that with the increased number of brands and corporate identities that have arisen because of the internet, its happening...

The Loss of Indigenous Languages and Cultures

Language is integrally related to culture. While in todays world it is not uncommon for an individual to...

Controlled Vocabulary v. Natural Language

A 3 page research paper that address this topic. Effective communication is much more likely to occur when everyone involved in a ...

Learning and Utilizing Language

the language acquisition device" (p. 255). Others say that language development is a reaction to environment. This writer/tutor ...

Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...

Catalyst for Bad Behavior at Work

Culture is the sum total of characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people. Our culture tells us what is acceptable...

Language and Prejudice

for they will immediately assume this doctor is an idiot, despite the fact that language, ones particular style of speaking, has n...

Language And Syllogisms

and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

Chivalry

for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

Global Language of English

speak English at some level of competence, and it would be counter-productive to try and establish another language as the one whi...

Language and Communication in South Africa

of people in the nation are illiterate (Kenny, 2003). When examining poorer populations, most people who live on one dollar per d...

Emotional Expressiveness In Different Cultures

Experiencing life requires much more than merely going through the paces of ones existence; rather, the various components of emot...

Leaders and Organizational Culture

is may be culturally acceptable to claim a sick day when tired, in others this may be unacceptable. Therefore, culture is the resu...

Organizational Culture

(SOI, 2005). The first is how to integrate new members into the culture and the second is how to adapt the culture to respond to ...

The Evolution of Language

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...