A grammar of spoken english discourse the intonation of increments

... Grammar (1980 by Charles Li and Sandra Thompson deal primarily with the syntax, rather than the phonology of Mandarin In China, there are a good number of grammar books on Mandarin, but all are ... the major Chinese dialects and more, rather than aspects of Mandarin The well-known classics such as A Grammar of Spoken Chinese (1968) by Yuen Ren Chao and Mandarin C...

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... that implicatures in conversation appeared at the closings of the stories and played the substantial role in making laughter The implicatures of the opening and the body is the only cause and ... like the terms of bird, subleg in the above analysis Metaphor interpretation is engaged in the conceptual level and exploiting the literal and figu...

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... as linguistics devices and types of the theory of humour Organization of the study There are three main parts in the study as follows: Introduction This part includes rationale, aims of the study, ... collection, data analysis and the results and discussion Chapter 3: Implication of Translation and Teaching In this part, the researcher offers the i...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... paid special attention because of the purpose of the study A total of 37 samples as metaphor jokes in the books of humorous stories, there are 18 (49%) and 19 (51%) in the English and Vietnamese ... There are the equivalent percentages of metaphor jokes, the findings indicate that both the English and the Vietnamese are fond of using metaph...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... researchers have touched on Singapore Mandarin, and none about “ orh ” in particular The data used in this study is made up of 14 transcripts (120965 words) from the recordings of 20 Singaporeans’ ... daily conversations Within this first hand data, a total of 363 “ orh ” were found The paper uses Aijmer’s (2002) “bottom-up” approach in analyzing these “ orh ” “ orh...

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... ‘owned’ the dog the dog’ the dog’s the dog’s tail The smile of the princess The princess’s smile Who ‘owns’ the smile? Put the apostrophe after the owner Add -s Add what is ‘owned’ 18 the princess the ... remember to keep the -e with soft c and soft g words It’s the e that keeps them soft (courageous, traceable) (See SOFT C AND SOFT G.) Don’t keep the -e with t...

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... material later, after they have mastered the basic grammar and vocabulary of the language The last one is the lack of adequate training HCC teachers may not have been adequately trained in the ... of Comparing and Contrasting approach: 30 % instead of 10% of the students say that they are very good at English The same thing applies to the students wh...

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... turned into pastures for sheep-raising and wood-making industries They had to join the force of cheap labor and working in such factories England became a typical example of initial accumulation of ... in God Master servant relationship in “ Robinson Crusoe can also be seen as a relation of capitalism as they devided labour among them with equal shares The fact is tha...

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