Newmark believed that choosing from among the strategies to translate metaphors is strongly contingent upon their types. Therefore, he taxonomized different types of metaphors on the basis of their originality and boldness. According to Newmark (1988) metaphors can be grouped under six heads; namely, dead, clich‚, standard or stock, adapted, recent and original. What comes below is an explanation about his taxonomy as well as a quick view on his suggested strategies to translate each type o...
Sales promotion girl is basically a girl who is promoting or selling something. She is one of the marketing parts of a company to promote their product to the customer. In Indonesia, the term sales promotion girl has arrived to a certain and unique connotation which is considered negative. Sales promotion girl in Indonesia is identical with young girls wearing sexy outfit seducing people to buy something. They are usually high school or university student -young and attractive essentially ste...
Hasegawa(2006) suggests that the main differences between Joseigo (women's language) and danseigo (men's language) are differentiated morpho-syntactically which normally occur in sentence-final particles, first- and second- person pronouns, interjections, exclamatory particles ,beautiful prefixes or vowel coalescence in pronunciation. For example, women are expected to use sentence-enders like "wa" to sound femine whereas men add "zo" or "ze" in order to be considered masculine. Say the word ...
Most people think that putting in a landscape only has to do with mulch and trees, but they have to use varies herbicides, and in order for them to use these herbicides they first have to meet the requirements for them to get a license. But you will need to know how to get your license and the requirements you will need to meet. Plus the ways that you control weeds with herbicides. Finally I will go through step by step direction on how to put in a landscape from start to finish. People think...
Romani is the common language of the Roma, the Sinti, the Kale and other European population groups summarised by the pejorative denomination gypsies (Halwachs 2003:1), and is one of Europe's most significant minority languages. It is spoken in countries throughout Europe with the largest speaker populations found in south-eastern Europe, especially in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, as well as in Greece, Slovakia, Moldavia and Hungary (Matras 2005c:2). The number...
The impact of language theory and the type of teaching method is very significant to the learner of language. It is from the method of teaching, and everything that is associated with it, that the student is able to grasp concepts of a language. Research into learning theories and teaching models has been ongoing for many years to establish some sort of data that helps towards second language acquisition. Task-based learning (TBL), it is claimed, is one such model that can aid a learner to es...
The term 'bilingual' in the psycholinguistic literature does not only apply to people who speak two languages equally well because they were exposed constantly to two different languages maybe due to their parents two different native languages. However "Bilingualism" refers to "the regular use of two (or more) languages, and bilinguals are those people who need and use two (or more) languages in their everyday lives." (Grosjean, 1992, pp. 51). This represents a holistic view of the bilingual...
The phrase is put in between the delimiters and so that it will be ignored by the compiler. The effect of enclosing anything between the delimiters is that the compiler will treat every texts enclosed in it as a remark or comment and will ignore them when compiling the file. 'import java.io.*' means that to import all the classes that are in the 'java.io' package to the file. We are importing the classes and their methods from the package to the java application. If 'java.io' had not been imp...
In lecture halls, in secondary school classrooms, during training workshops, and at research conferences, PowerPoint is becoming a preferred method of communicating, presenting and sharing knowledge. (Adams, 2006) Nowadays, the "multimedia-based instruction" is broadly used in the learning environment to enhance students' learning as indicated by (Lai, Tsai, & Yu, Integrating Annotations into a Dual-slide PowerPoint Presentation for Classroom Learning, 2011). Different kinds of representation...
Abstract My case study involves seven and a half year-old David who attends a Charter school in Brooklyn. I was originally contacted by David's second grade English teacher, who had concerns about his recent reading performance. Prior to my intervention, I did my due diligence in obtaining David's background information. This I did by consulting with his teacher, his principal and In this case study I have done few assessments: Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (Garfield), Slosson Oral Readi...
