british and american english exercises

... threatened by American English Many consider American English to be rather sloppy, and they are concerned that American spelling may dominate and somehow contaminate their language Americans often ... guide to pronunciation symbols and other signs, see page vi NEW ZEALAND New Zealand English is also very similar to British English in the written form New Zealanders think they speak in a more ... pages 220—227 England and America are two countries divided by a common language attributed to GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Vlll Did British and American English Become So Different? A British reader looking

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2021, 09:58

... Standard American English or GA (General American) and Standard British English or RP (Received Pronunciation).1 Pronunciation of 'r'One of the most noticeable differences between English and Americanpronunciation ... EGrammar and UsageIn grammar and syntax, American and British English are remarkably similar Examples of the main differences are listed below The influence of American English on British English, ... preferred, and in British EnglishThe verbs fit, guit andregular in British English, but irregular in American In the caseof quit and wet, however ,American usage is now well on its way to replacing British

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2024, 08:00

... British English American English accommodation accommodations action replay instant replay aerofoil airfoil ... (in road) traffic circle rowing boat rowboat sailing boat sailboat saloon (car) sedan sandpit sandbox sandwich cake layer cake sanitary towel sanitary napkin self-raising flour self-rising flour ... in hospital in the hospital hot flush hot flash housing estate housing development hundreds and thousands sprinkles (for ice cream) ice lolly Popsicle (trademark) icing sugar confectioners’ sugar

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 22:31

... 2010 in both American and British Online Newspaper Discourse. In other words, a discourse-analytical approach that is interdisciplinary and encompasses the linguistic, conceptual and socio-cultural ... ‘The Daily Telegraph‘ 1.4.1 The Corpus Even though British and American broadsheets are seen as “the fourth estate”, where the newspaper owners and advertisers are, in principle, free from government ... total of 250 news stories EACH taken from FOUR established British and American national broadsheets sourced from Factiva. From the British perspective, 250 articles were collected from the Guardian

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... socio-political and geographical contexts. This can be seen in the clear separation of the British and American broadsheets with a clear delineation of the relevant political stances, both conservative and ... approach is systematic and more comprehensive, Steps and remain inaccessible due to the need for a formal grasp of the concept of “propositionalisation” and a concrete understanding of the formulaic ... generates concordances and semantic domains on a lexical level. This means that the lexical and semantic taggers are based on a pre-existing lexicon and lack the requisite accuracy and sophistication

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... analysis and evaluation of the associated British and American metaphors in this thesis. 3.5.4.2. A holistic diagrammatic depiction: The interaction of metaphor categories for ‘Substances and materials: ... Metaphors (encapsulated by the scenarios of DANGER and HEALTH AND DISEASE) and Ontological Metaphors (mainly personified by the scenarios of CRIME and INCOMPETENCE) - provide the reader with heuristic ... ideologies and affiliations. Secondly, the foregrounding of the HEALTH AND DISEASE scenario portrays the environment as a living organism that requires constant care and protection. HEALTH AND DISEASE

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Oil Spill and the relevant entities encapsulated within the narrative (such as BP itself, the British and American Governments, the spilt oil as an entity, the notions of POLITICS and INTERNATIONAL ... between America and Britain (as BP has distinctly British origins), and thus, nationalistic sentiments will undoubtedly be brought to the forefront on both sides. On the other hand, this crisis ... on integrated online concordancing platforms like WMatrix (and its corresponding USAS and “broad-sweep” functions) and Sketch Engine (and the resulting word sketches) reduces the reliance on researcher

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... selected British and American broadsheets. This is significant as the evaluations and metaphors generated in these popular mainstream broadsheets aid the reader in organising the events and the ... The American Perspective: An overview of significant metaphor types and the interaction of metaphor categories in the NYTCorpus and the WP-Corpus According to PEJ (2010), the narrative in the American ... hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas” and oceans and shorelines that are “turned into dead zones”. It is important to note that the clear allusion to the BP oil spill and Chernobyl is a deliberate

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... nationalistic elements in the British corpora are brought to the fore in the activated mental model where British interests (British investments, a British- based company and British pride) are portrayed ... “damaging British interests” or “encouraging serious anti -British feeling”. The inference is that while certain segments of the US media and some politicians are irrational, the British media (and ... the portrayal of BP investors and the range of British interests as INNOCENT VICTIMS as well as the emphasis on BP’s central economic role in both the British and American economies. This seems

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Table 6.5 – An aggregate overview of Metaphors Types and Token Distribution in British and American Broadsheets (NYT, WP, G, TT: Substances and Materials: Liquid_“Oil” Broadsheet Metaphor Types ... strict criteria and in accordance to a predetermined timeframe. It is important to note that the analysis is streamlined into two broad evaluative categories across both American and British media ... environmental and corporate equivalent of the “9/11” attacks in 2001. b. The persistent parallels drawn between Obama’s handling of the BP Oil Spill and the Bush Administration’s handling of “Hurricane

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Oil Spill e.g. the current British and American metaphorical representations of BP is of significance in accounting for BP’s prospects and long-term survival in the US and beyond (as lawsuits are ... the British and American Governments, the spilt oil as an entity, the notions of POLITICS and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS in general etc.) These metaphorical... grammatical and ...   307   shared and passed on, exploited, transformed between individuals and groups of participants within and across a discourse event” (Steen, 2010, p.254; Gentner and Bowdle, 2008).

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Truck British Boot American Trunk British Football American Soccer British Spanner American Wrench British American Pharmacy Drug Store British Allowance American Pocket Money British Petrol American ... (Gasoline) British Bonnet American Hood British Toilet Loo/ WC American Bathroom British Rubber American Eraser British Flat American Apartment British Mate American Friend British Holiday American ... kinds of English Soda Soft Drink Pop Fizzy Drink British Trousers American Pants British Lift American Elevator British American Autumn Fall British American Biscuits Cookies British Lorry American

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2016, 06:09

... Truck British Boot American Trunk British Football American Soccer British Spanner American Wrench British American Pharmacy Drug Store British Allowance American Pocket Money British Petrol American ... (Gasoline) British Bonnet American Hood British Toilet Loo/ WC American Bathroom British Rubber American Eraser British Flat American Apartment British Mate American Friend British Holiday American ... kinds of English Soda Soft Drink Pop Fizzy Drink British Trousers American Pants British Lift American Elevator British American Autumn Fall British American Biscuits Cookies British Lorry American

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2016, 14:56

... analysis of verbal and existential processes in British and American political speeches in light of functional grammar  A systemic linguistic analysis of modality types in British and American political ... linguistic styles of British and American politicians, which should be introduced to English teachers and learners in that these leaders use sentence size, pronouns, processes and the way they employ ... very reliable and valid 3.2 SAMPLING The samples are from the political speeches of British Prime Ministers (British corpus) with 204,310 words at 50.09% and American Presidents (American corpus)

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2018, 11:19

... by British and American politicians 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 The Aims study aims at extensively investigating epistemic modality expressions used as mitigation markers that British and American ... in political speeches by American and British politicians This study approached the semantic and pragmatic functions of epistemic modality expressions in American and British political speeches ... There has been little study on modality expressions between British and American discourse and, of course, no study between British and American political speeches either Therefore, this research

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2018, 12:57

... analysis of verbal and existential processes in British and American political speeches in light of functional grammar  A systemic linguistic analysis of modality types in British and American political ... linguistic styles of British and American politicians, which should be introduced to English teachers and learners in that these leaders use sentence size, pronouns, processes and the way they employ ... very reliable and valid 3.2 SAMPLING The samples are from the political speeches of British Prime Ministers (British corpus) with 204,310 words at 50.09% and American Presidents (American corpus)

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2018, 13:16

... by British and American politicians 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 The Aims study aims at extensively investigating epistemic modality expressions used as mitigation markers that British and American ... in political speeches by American and British politicians This study approached the semantic and pragmatic functions of epistemic modality expressions in American and British political speeches ... There has been little study on modality expressions between British and American discourse and, of course, no study between British and American political speeches either Therefore, this research

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2019, 10:27

... the use of IGMs in British English and American English through the analysis of data collection from 112 British and American PSs which are divided into two corpora named APS and BPS 1.4 RESEARCH ... IMGS OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH POLITICIANS 4.4.1 The similarities in the use of IGMs in American and British political speeches 19 4.4.2 The differences in the use of IGMs in American and British ... are semantic and pragmatic features of IGMs employed in PSs by British and American politicians? What are the similarities and the differences in the use of IGMs of British and American politicians?

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2020, 09:28

... attacked the motives and consequences of American financial transactions and the profits of the American banks in his report to the NAACP and his articles for The Nation and The Crisis See The ... bodies and 107 cinema and 39À40 culture and 111À12 determination of identity by 75, 79À80, 81, 165 documentation by 81 ethnography and 160 form 28, 29, 117, 168 gender and 111 marriage and 35 ... Patterns, 50 David W Blight, ‘‘W E B Du Bois and the Struggle for American Historical Memory,’’ History and Memory in African -American Culture ed Genevieve Fabre and Robert O’Meally (New York: Oxford

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2020, 19:58

... StyHstic Analysis (ONCLUSION fj REFERENCES c, INTRODUCTION British and American literature is an indispensable subject for Vietnamese students of English The study of literature helps to enrich the ... TEACHING OF LITERATURE 1.1 Literature as Language The study of literature in general and the study of British and American literature in particular is fundamentally a study oi language in operation ... splintering and chipping them like hitting a slate roof, and Mrs Macomber in the car, had shot al the bulfalo wilh the 6.5 Mannlicher as it seemed about to gore Macomber and had hit her husband about

Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2020, 23:21