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    Speaking. From speech one to speech speech four I have improved in language/style, organization/structure, supporting my ideas, vocal delivery, and physical delivery. Words are anything but powerless language helps the audience to understand and create meaning. Language can bring people together for a common cause, and language can persuade the audience to act a certain way. In my first speech I thought I did a decent job of using language and style, but it was almost awkward and not…

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    They had a great impact into the students’ language in a 6 month. They had the teacher go through training in linguistics and they had the students pick as many books as possible. The teachers learn mostly in psycholinguistics then social linguistics to integrate books for students. This skills were…

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    My Idiolect

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    Explore how and why your own language varies in different contexts and consider how others react to your speech. During the 14 years of my life, I have learnt to adjust and familiarise my dialect to suit diverse situations through the impact of media, family, music and social networking. Moreover, I have come to pay special attention to the context of where someone is talking and the mode of how they are communicating. I have also gained the awareness of how others respond to features of my…

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    Introduction Shortly addressed will be the many roles language can have in a child’s life, the different levels of communication and the different types of language. Language can be seen and heard in the forms of written language and verbal language, with the exception of sign language (Crystal, 1987). The complexity of the speaking and writing skills we have acquired since infancy is difficult to appreciate because of our everyday practise and familiarity with it (Crystal, 1987). There are…

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    Language is an intimate human characteristic in which many doors open due to the aspects of carrying the many tongues of the world. Language is recognized as the form of expression humans communicate with. It is the speech that increases the ability to find identity of one and create the personal connection. It is the bittersweet knowledge of being to exchange within one identity to another due to language. Language is an internal connection with the personality of the one. Language is intimate…

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    adults have a harder time discriminating other languages, then their own. When babies reach the age of one their ability to recognize the sounds decrease. This was proven during a two-month time period when researchers were studying children that were American and Japanese where sound development was occurring. When speaking to the babies, they listen very closely to the way adults speak and take statistics. When the babies absorb the statistics of the language, it changes their brains and makes…

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    transition from activity to others, and he takes a longe time to response to his teacher and translate to other activity. He has a problem with verbalization. He can say little words such mil which mean milk and bro which mean brother. He uses the sign language to ask for his needs and when he at the song time. He does not share playing with his friends. He uses to play alone more than…

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    John Mcwhorter Summary

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    really means. They use SLASH when they are changing the topic of what they are talking about. Like being bilingual John believes that know how to text and write is Bi-dialectal, a balancing act of texting and writing correctly. He believes a whole new language has developed with our young people and it is a linguistic miracle that is happening today.…

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    Lehrman's Stump Speech

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    Lehrman would assign the stump speech a B because it uses simple language, brief statements, and identification with others. However, it isn’t a fool proof statement and could use some work to become a good stump speech. Lehman describes a good speech as using language people understand, language people remember, and anecdote. Language people understand is defined as simple and easy to interpret words in a given speech. It is known that a good speech is one that is written at an eighth grade…

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    differences to be able to communicate with others in a different way. According to ASHA, AAC is a way to "compensate for temporary or permanent impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions of individuals with severe disorders of speech-language production and or/comprehension, including spoken and written modes of communication" (ASHA, 2005a). While not everyone is a candidate for AAC, there is a way to decide if someone is or is not and the right device for the person too.…

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