Sociolinguistics

History and Language: A Holistic View Humanity is such a simple word, yet is by simple nature excruciatingly complex. The variables and mechanisms that fuse themselves together are so broad and encompassing that it is not so surprising that looking at the whole is nigh on impossible for one person to achieve. Just as a single person is a blend of ideas, ideals, and circumstances, so too is the overall essence of what makes a human, human. Anthropologists have dedicated their lives to the attempt…

Theme of Bioethics in Ball and Wolfe’s (2017) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks For three decades, scientists had been looking for human cells that could be successfully multiplied outside the human body and much of their efforts failed until 1951, when doctors in the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore collected a cancerous tissue sample from a colored woman, Henrietta Lacks, without her consent. Her tissue sample is significant as it allowed scientists to conduct tests on human cells…

http://www.immi.gov.au/facts Denzin, N, & Lincoln, Y. 2013. The Landscape of Qualitative Research (4th ed). Thousand Oaks: Sage. Fishman, J. 1972. The relationship between micro-and macro-sociolinguistics in the study of who speaks what language to whom and when. In J. B. Pride, & J. Holmes, Sociolinguistics: Selected readings. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 15-32 Fridland, V. 2003. “Network strength and the realization of the southern vowel shift among African-Americans in Memphis,…

1.1 BACKGROUND Employability skills can be defined as skills required by individuals to make them ‘employable’. Besides being good at technical understanding and subject knowledge, employees are often expected to have a set of special skills to carry out their roles to the best of their ability. Employability depends on knowledge, skills and attitudes and how those skills are effectively used for the growth of the organisation. Apart from that, employability skill is also crucial for career…