Danish language

Throughout Homer’s Odyssey and Morrison’s Home, the different societies have their own ways of working together as a community. Even though the communities have similarities, there are many ways in which they are actually different. The major difference between the communities within the two stories is the way in which both of them are able to express their sense of unity in their societies. Within Homer’s Odyssey, most of the poleis throughout the epic maintain a sense of arrogance. Each polis…

context”. (Nunan, 1993, P. 20) In addition, discourse in linguistics, is a unit of language larger than a single sentence. More broadly, discourse is known as the use of spoken or written language in a social context. Furthermore, discourses need, by no means, be “grand” or large scale. (Gee, 2006, P. 22) To conclude, text is one among the different levels of language which is investigated according to a branch of language known as discourse analysis. Secondly, text analysis and…

Chapter one 1. Preliminaries 1.1 Introduction Translation is the act of rendering a written text from one language into another. It is the action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of an equivalent text, also called a translation, that communicates the same message in another language, which is why the outcome has to be close to the original meaning. If the goal of the translation is to understand the culture, it is more useful to comprehend the meaning.…

how human beings produce sound (Honda 2003). When humans produce sounds it is one way in which humans communicate (Harrub, Thompson and Miller n.d.). Speech production mechanism involves different physiological structures that interact. Spoken language can be recognised through articulatory phonetics. Linguistic can be represented through articulator movements that in return make speech a way to transfer information. This can only happen with various parts of the chest, neck, and head. These…

Language can be defined as a system of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way and also a system of communication used by a particular country or community (Dictionary, 2004). Brumfit refuted the earlier notions of language as simply a communication system and identified that language has five functions – personal, interpersonal, directive, referential and imagination. These functions allowed people to express feelings,…

Yes, what is Procrastination? Here are some famous definitions to the "Procrastination", Merriam‐Webster: “To put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.” Dictionary.com: “To put off till another day or time; defer; delay.” TheFreeDictionary.com: “To postpone or delay needlessly.” However procrastination is much more than postponing something, and the concept isn’t as simple as many people think. Here’s my definition: It is just postponing what we have to do and doing…

Introduction Oral communication has united people over the ages. Stories have been created by people to entertain, to educate and to record events. Before the introduction of the writing system, stories were transmitted orally from one generation to the next generation. Communities have depended on such exchanges and transfers. Even cultures and communities that are dominated by literacy, have large sections of non-literate people whose culture is largely oral. In India, several…

represent the remembered, which is the literal translation of the word. Therefore the Smrti texts include much of the poetic literature, epics, the texts on the four goals of human life (Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha) and the six Vedangas that govern language, astronomy and rituals. Smrti is the text of remembrance and therefore its key functions in the initial stages was to supply highly precise expressions to capture facts, principles and ideas. 2) Śruti is the most authoritative Vedic text that…

Translation is an art that requires both a skill and a knowledge. It is not just the mere conveying of words from a source language to a target language. It is more of a complicated process. Translation is the transferring of a language as well as a culture. According to Bassnett (2002), translation does not only involve the replacement of lexical and grammatical elements between two languages, but also requires conveying the cultural settings of the texts. Lefevere and Bassnett view…

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The assertiveness score for Vietnam is not reported in the GLOBE framework. Therefore, in order to estimate the level of assertiveness in Vietnam, this study looks at that of its neighboring countries. Clusters of countries within geographic proximity (Furnham, Kirkcaldy & Lynn, 1994) reveal important information about societal variation, intercultural similarities and differences. This allows the researcher to make inference about Vietnam based on empirical findings…