Intonation

Crocodile Dundee and Paul Hogan's commercial utilise dialect, props and characterisation to add to mistaken and deluding thoughts regarding Australia. Dialect is utilised to express the solid Australian inflection and the familiarity of Australians through slang. The utilisation of props helps to create the notorious picture of Australian ways of life, for example, a great bushman in a disconnected town in the outback, or everyone cherishes the shoreline and knows how to surf. Characterisation…

introduces himself, he says, “People observe the colors of day only as its beginnings and ends, but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment” (Zusak 4). The phrase, “multitude of shades and intonations” serves as symbolism. “Shades and intonations” represents Death being constantly on the job, observing the range of the spectrum from sunrise to sunset. Death gets the complete view of life because of the active and…

Seminar 1 Reflection Questions To make our time together as productive and efficient as possible, please reflect on the following questions and email your responses to Dr. West and Dr. Clauhs by Tuesday, 9/13. 1. How much of your teaching opportunity/experience is indeed student-centered? Why? Since this is Block 1 and the beginning of the school year, a lot of the first few days of school has involved work outside of playing music and rehearsing, including things such as organizing the band…

I have chosen the project option Speech Styles of the comedian Kristen Wiig. The reason I decided to pick her as my topic was because I thought it would be interesting to see how different and how similar she is in the Californian skit when compared to her everyday life. In this paper, idiolect differences, phonological differences, and non-verbal communications between Kristen Wiig’s Californians Skits from Saturday Night Live, will be discussed when compared to her interview from the show…

Landing on the hard consonants and using them at the beginning of the word to propel the pitch forward worked perfectly. However, where there were any uncertain parts, prime example being the "Fa la la" section of “Fire”, our intonation, as well as all the other technical aspects declined rapidly in quality. As far as rhythmic accuracy goes, “Fire” may have lacked that quite a bit in the “Fa la la” section of the song, as well as small hiccups in some of the alleluia phrases of…

Knowing words’ meaning before listening to the story helps students to understand what the speaker is saying. I need to explain about ‘bottom-up parsing’ and ‘top-down parsing’ because “effective L2 learners used both top-sown strategies listening for intonation or phrases and bottom-up strategies listening for words, while ineffective listeners concentrated on the bottom-up process.” After the explanation of these two strategies, students read questions before starting to listening activity. It…

As the common idiom goes, "Do not judge a book by its cover." People often just view the cover of any sort of media, not necessarily a book, and judge whether it is good or bad, fiction or nonfiction, gendered or not. Markus Zusak’s, “The Book Thief,” depicts a character during a famous time in history; World War II, from the 3rd person perspective of a conscious figure intended to be Death, who makes a point on this idiom. One should not prejudge any sense of value or classification just from a…

1.6.3. Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication No one can deny the fact that the study of cross cultural communication contributed to the field of applied linguistics and offered a plethora of examples of different aspects of communication. Deborah Tannen (1984), in her article: The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication has identified eight levels of differences in ways of speaking that differ from one culture to another and which represent the essence of language (ibid, 189).…

Banning Email Email should make our jobs easier and be time efficient. Companies have been extensively using emails internally among employees, to connect to customers and other stakeholders. It is very cost effective as it just requires an internet connection, which most companies already provide to employees for other business needs. This explains the prevalence of emails in business today but there are other concerns that should be considered for business today. It is important to understand…

Although Dmitri Shostakovich’s song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry does not have the international acclaim as some of his bigger orchestral works, it still remains one of his most powerful pieces that acted as a vehicle for his artistic and moral resistance against the rise of anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia during the end of Stalin’s life. From Jewish Folk Poetry was first composed in 1948 for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and piano, and then later orchestrated in 1963. In 1948, not only was…