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    The discussion of gender communication has become a largely controversial debate. Culture plays an important role in how these differences occur and the perceptions of men and women are constructed by culture. Studies have showed us different views of different communication styles between men and women but the conclusion is the same, no matter the reasoning, there is a clear difference between the way the different genders speak. We observe these differences from day to day and can easily…

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    Linguist Career Paper

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    to continue their education and receive a master’s or doctorate degree in linguistics. There is a mélange of sub-careers within the field of linguistics; for example, the following: psycholinguistics, structural linguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, computational linguistics, etc. In each field, certifications are offered in order to differentiate linguists’ proficiencies and capabilities. Linguists can be certified through different organizations, such as: The…

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    Humour Definition

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    Humour is considered as common and universal social phenomenon that has been a part of human history starting from the ancient times. It touches every aspect of our life with or without our permission. It is impossible to avoid and applies to any subject, whether in conversation, literature, press or music and television. (Berger 1998:1). The word “humour” derives from Latin: humor “moisture”, humere “to be moist” and was used by scientists and doctors in the Middle Ages to describe four body…

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    Bias In Language

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    Numerous studies have investigated the perpetuation of sex bias reflected on the sexist language use, and how people perceive and judge gender-based language. Murdock and Forsyth (1985) conducted two studies to examine people’s responses to gender-biased language empirically. Participants in both studies were from evening classes at a large urban university, which not only included a large proportion of full-time students, but also included students with other occupations such as “secretaries,…

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    Theory Of Superiority

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    competitiveness was not the original function of humor. Attardo (1994) classifies superiority theory under the social theory of humor and states that, since superiority theory reflects a mixture of interpersonal and social aspects, this theory involves sociolinguistics of…

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    Quirk Vs. Kachru Analysis

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    Attitudes, Quirk VS. Kachru The monocentric school, led by the British linguist, Sir Randolph Quirk, wanted to unify English variations by selecting a standard that would be used by users of English worldwide. Quirk encouraged native and non-native speakers to acquire and use the standard British English. He wanted to globalize the British standard because the rest of the English varieties are, according to him "neither liberal nor liberating to permit learners to settle for lower…

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    terms of English language teaching at this point, that is, whether to teach “culture” along with English or not. The question of teaching “culture” along with English has been discussed by some scholars from the fields of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics for nearly two decades. Culture is a…

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    “Machismo” in America By Aleli Reyes Instructor Cabey English 2367 11-11:50AM First Draft: Project 1 American society has been influenced by a sort of “machismo” culture for many years now. “Machismo” in the sense that the male figure represents power and authority, not conventionally used to describe American society, so much as in Latin American countries, but America, like many other countries, has a strong value for men. The gender preference has become less of an issue…

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    Affect effect people, the emotion effect people through media, like people are watching video or listening music thus they will feel happy or sad, this is how emotion works. An emotion is a subjective content, the sociolinguistic fixing of the quality of an experience which is from that point onward defined as personal. Emotion is qualified intensity, the conventional, consensual point of insertion of intensity into semantically and semiotically formed progressions, into…

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    There are several important factors which must be considered as we attempt to achieve effective communication with others. We must first recognize the goal we are trying to achieve with the communication. Second, we need to recognize who we are and how we, as individuals, communicate with others. And lastly, we need to understand how our audience is going to actually receive or perceive the communication we have presented. Although all three of these factors are different, they all are…

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