An Encyclopaedia of Language 06 pptx

... for many European languages. The aim of the notion-functional syllabus is to conceptualise and plan the content of language teaching in terms of the meanings that we need to convey through language ... feasible and useful in some kinds of language performance, it is the quality and quantity of the language that is acquired that eventually determines the potential of the in...

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... recent national and global trends in the television industry. The rampant consolidation of commercial media has meant the dominance of only a handful of large and powerful companies. In industrialized ... Organisations Working For and With Youth in Jordan. Amman, Jordan: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Jordan Country Office. ANDI-Brazilian News Agency for Children’s Rights. (20...

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... languages. 3.3 Niger-Kordofanian languages The Niger-Kordofanian family has two branches, Kordofanian, spoken in a small part of central Sudan, and Niger-Congo, covering most of the southern part of the continent. ... LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD 4.1 Austronesian languages Although some Austronesian languages are spoken on the mainland of South-East Asia and on Taiwan, the primary distrib...

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... University of Toronto Press, Toronto. Krueger, John R. (1967) ‘Nabokov’s Zemblan: A constructed Language of Fiction’, Linguistics, 31:44–9. AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LANGUAGE 471 (Tanzania) and Sango (Central ... as ‘official language , ‘national language , or ‘parliamentary language . Elevating the status of some languages or varieties tends to promote the status decline of ot...

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... manipulation of the full figural and spatial resources of standard orthographies. 394 LANGUAGE AND WRITING-SYSTEMS Finno-Ugrian languages and the Indo-European languages of Europe; and he includes ... between two fundamental opposing views of language: language as a source of knowledge, and language as a mere medium of communication. Does language have a direct and essent...

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... A writing-system for one language may use means which it shares with the writing-system of another language or the writing- systems of many languages. This commonalty is an important feature of the global ... by the selection of appropriate variants, and the preparation of an apparatus criticus containing other variants and notes. Although the burden of this task falls 346...

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... the ‘semantics’ of social relationships and verbal forms, (b) the detailed study of the handling and function of speech acts within the community, and (c) the role of language in the study of kinship, ... syntactic profile AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LANGUAGE 245 such practical matters as education and personal interaction. This situation strongly reminds one of the trenchant r...

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... inflectional languages, contains both the classical Indo-European languages such as Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, and modern Indo-European languages such as the languages of the Romance group. Characteristic ... verb and preposition, and the languages which did not, Schlegel further divided the inflexional languages in type (c) into: (c1) analytic languages (c2) synthetic languages An analyt...

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... of Language Understanding’, in Schank, R. and Colby, K. (eds) Computer Models of Thought and Language, Freeman, San Francisco: 152–86. AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LANGUAGE 153 Handbook (Disciplines of ... is of interest to a wide range of disciplines. From a linguistic point of view it is the archetypal use of language, in which all of us acquire our first language, and m...

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