An Encyclopaedia of Language 05 ppt

... 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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... 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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... 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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... legends of non-human speech. Geoffrey Leech has been Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language at the University of Lancaster since 1974, and is Chairman of the Institute of English Language ... in Papuan and Austronesian languages, in pidgins and creoles of the Pacific region, and especially in sociolinguistics, semantics and language contact, as well as in inve...

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... South African slang for Afrikaans language lessons. The Probert Encyclopaedia of Slang 11 ANTE UP Ante up is slang for to pay one's contribution. ANTENNA SHOP Antenna shop is slang for a ... steroid. ANABOLS Anabols is slang for any anabolic steroid. ANARCHISTS Anarchists is Australian slang for non−safety matches. ANBY Anby is Dorset slang for by−and−by. ANCHOR Anchor is slang for...

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... of industry similarity and higher relative profitability of the company where the IED is an executive director significantly improves the performance of the company where the director is an ... performance. Hwang and Kim (2009) find that the existence of substantial social ties between outside directors and top management diminishes the effectiveness of the monitoring role...

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... the study of language change. Language and Linguis- tics Compass, 2(3):289–307. G.J. Baxter, R.A. Blythe, W. Croft, and A.J. McK- ane. 2009. Modeling language change: An evalu- ation of Trudgill’s ... & Wang, 2008; Baxter et al., 2009; Landsbergen, 2009). An advantage of our ap- proach is an enhanced ability to evaluate a range of proposed causes for a particular case...

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... generation of a sentence includes an instance of an object present in a recent input; and (2) the the previous instance of this object (the po- tential antecedent} is in the topic position; and ... for focus in- dude: • end -of- transfer, • beginning -of- transfer, • activity -of- transfer, • goal -of- object, • source -of- object, • goal -of- money, • source -of- money...

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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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