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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Speech and writing"”.
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
Drawing upon the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida, this study examines the representation of speech and writing in selected novels and journalism of Charles Dickens. The initial chapter describes the differing attitudes of Bakhtin and Derrida to language, writing and literature. A purely …
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A sociolectal and dialectal study of Southern Sotho in Lesotho
… this dissertation we examine variation, in both speech and writing, in the South Sotho spoken in Lesotho. We indicate that the South Sotho used by a majority of speakers today shows a shift from both earlier and prescribed varieties. Open-ended questionnaires and informal conversations were used …
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Many voices, many selves: An analysis of education blog discourses
… describing language on the Internet and comparing CMC to speech and writing. While these studies have provided valuable information about CMC, they have also left many gaps, especially related to social and ideological issues such as language use.</p> <p>This study responds to the …
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Studies in the dialect and palaeographical materials of the medieval West Country
… is to provide a comprehensive phonological and morphosyntactic overview of the dialect materials found in Devon, Dorset and Somerset during the Middle Ages. Building on methodology developed during the creation of the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, the present study involves the …
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Aspects of Japanese computer-mediated communication : linguistics and socio-cultural perspectives
… first compares quantitatively CMC language with speech and writing and finds that interjections distinguish speech from CMC and writing. CMC is distinguished from writing by uses of particles. Uses of auxiliary verbs separate the two target websites, Channel 2 and Yahoo within CMC. Based on the …
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Interfaces and Models for Improved Understanding of Real-World Communicative and Affective Nonverbal Vocalizations by Minimally Speaking Individuals
… focuses on a sub-group (denoted by mv*) of non- and minimally speaking individuals who have fewer than 10 words or word approximations and limited expressive language through speech and writing. In the United States alone, this group comprises over one million individuals. Their nonverbal …
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Syllables and Concepts in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition
… an acoustic signal to words is the gold standard in automatic speech recognition. While recognizing that orthographic transcription is a valuable technique for comparing speech recognition systems without respect to application, it must also be recognized that transcription is not something …
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Film Dialogue Translation And The Intonation Unit : Towards Equivalent Effect In English And Chinese
… special reference to the translation process and quality of English-to-Chinese dubbing. In response to the persistent translation failures that led to widespread criticism of dubbed films and TV plays in China for their artificial 'translation talk', this study provides a pragmatic methodology …
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
… century. In spite of that fact, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century readers presumably had no problems reading manuscripts of Chaucer's work. They understood Chaucer's syntax. However, Chaucer's medieval, reader-response poetry has become unfamiliar to the modern reader--in part because of the …
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“All these wonderful things”: the place of digital resources in newly qualified English language and literacy teachers' practices, from higher education to high schools
Understandings of what counts as literacy and of how language is best taught are in considerable flux in the present period. The proliferation of the digital is often cited as a key factor driving this sense of flux. In initial teacher education, the place of the digital in teachers' practices is …
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Silence, speech and gender in early modern drama : a presentist, Palestinian perspective
Silence, Speech and Gender in Early Modern Drama: A Presentist, Palestinian Perspective considers the dialogue between male-and female-authored dramas in early modern England and the competing ideologies on speech, silence, hearing and gender they enact. Following the methodology of presentism, the …
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USING SINGAPORE COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH AS A PEDAGOGICAL MEASURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
… of Singapore Colloquial English (SCE), students' speech and their writing. It also sets out to experiment whether the teaching of Standard English (Std E) features using SCE features (which is a more familiar register of the English Language (EL) for the students because of their widespread use …
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Blissymbolics as an Augmentative Communication Tool for Adults with Expressive Aphasia
… had plateaued in re-learning expressive language and speech via traditional speech therapy techniques.</p> <p>Specifically, answers were sought to the following questions:</p> <ol> <li>To what extent does Blissymbolics augment the expressive communication of adults with expressive aphasia, …
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“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens
… explore the intersectionality of race, gender, and class that existed during the Civil Rights Movement, and the tensions that were a result of that intersectionality. This is accomplished through a re-examination of The Movement through a post-modern and Black feminist lens. Post-modern theorist …
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A categoria de aspecto: forma e função
… conjugates functional, semantic -discoursive and pragmatic notions. Considering the verbal aspect as the focus of our study, we hypothesize that the aspectual values, viewed in terms of the internal structure of a given projected situation in the linguistic enunciaton, can contribute to the …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
… van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband tussen metaforiese uitdrukkings en die konseptualisering van kolonialisme, kolonialiteit en dekolonisering te ondersoek deur die Konseptuele Metafoorteorie (KMT) te benut. Die verhandeling is spesifiek toegespits op die …