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Politeness Theory and Pragmatics

functioning of language as a dynamic process operating on context structure relationships at various levels of salience." (Versch...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

Culture, Language, and Laughing in English

than it might be, but the very lack of attention given to it might lead us to conclude that the situation it recounts doesnt reson...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

Ape Tool Utilization and Language

sticks are the primary example of such primitive tools. Apes select these sticks, modify them, and use them to entice ants to cra...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language Using Neurolinguistic Programming

in teaching (Baker, 2005). Using NLP "will enable us to uncover the basis of our perceptions and so teach us how we think and lear...

Cognitive Development Process

reversible mental actions * * Logical Use of symbols * Formal logic *6 Development of abstract concepts *...

English Words Borrowed from Italian

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

Use of Language in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...

Linguistics and Culture

cultures differ in both their material and their philosophical experiences. Languages evolve in accordance with those differences...

Research Design on the Connection Between Deficient Social Skills and Linguistic Pragmatic Deficits

as frustration, peer rejection, and poor self esteem which result from SLI, Conti-Ramsden and Botting (2004) and other researchers...

Methodologies of Second Language Instruction

their questions, the students responses, and any recurring patterns which occur. Discourse analysis can also help identify cross c...

Change and Linguistics

of the Americas. English and Spanish, for example, have a number of dialects within them that have, over time, developed in...

Global Community Perspective on the English Language

nation the United States involves itself in the affairs of other countries to some extent. In Third world countries the United S...

Rhetoric, Thought, and Language

than just discourse designed to persuade. Since the 1970s, scholars from a variety of academic fields have placed metaphor at the ...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Social Alienation

were outcasts from the beginning largely due to her mother Annettes social displacement as a native of Martinique. The memories o...

Overview of PHP Language

PHP initially was developed in 1994 by Greenland programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, who named it Personal Home Page tools. It was rewritt...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Connection Between Language and Dance

uttering but a single word, dance is able to communicate to all who partake of it, no matter their origin. "Nobody says you cant ...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Mexican Mafia and Sociolinguistics

into the gang, the only way to leave is by shedding ones own blood, which is most typically done by death for violating one of the...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Reviews of Articles about Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Staging of the Witches' Scenes

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

The History of COBOL in American Business

COBOL is a high-level programming language developed decades ago. Once the standard for dealing with masses of complex data, it is...

Influences on Culture

material products" (Bodley, 2002; bodley-text.html). In addition, it is often noted that "Culture also has several properties: it ...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

Caracas, Venezuela's El Universal Newspaper

is bias in any of the news items, it is not evident. The serious nature of the news is tempered by stories of local interest, pre...