The Viking colonisation of the British Isles had a considerable effect on the English language and vocabulary. Even today, after hundreds of years, we can still see the evidence of Scandinavian influence. This paper deals with the influence of Scandinavian on the English language. The aim of this paper is to show examples and explain the impact of Scandinavian on the English language. 1. Introduction The history of English language is usually divided up into four major periods that can be jus...
In this chapter, the actual methodology is explained in detail. The whole speech recognition can be divided into two parts, training and recognition. In training the speech has to be read into the system. Speech should be analyzed and it should be converted into coefficients (LPC coefficients or MFCC coefficients), which is called feature extraction. Speech words in the form of coefficient vectors, also called templates should now be saved in a template bank to use for recognition. In the rec...
Abstract: A great many theoretical and practical contrastive studies have been carried out on different levels of language by teachers, linguists and psycholinguists in the field of Contrastive Analysis. Mainly there are three levels which are made use of in CA studies: 1) phonology 2) grammar 3) lexis. From these three areas the area of phonology and specifically the sound systems of English and Khuzestani Arabic are compared and contrasted in this study. Practically this study juxtaposed th...
This study investigates how native speakers of Vietnamese observed Grice's maxims. Three hundred conversational contributions in live talk exchanges from varied Vietnamese television channels and naturally occurring discourse were analysed. The results showed that Grice's maxims were fulfilled in many instances. Nevertheless, in many other situations, two kinds of non-fulfilment of the maxims were observed: (i) the speaker deliberately exploited a maxim, which fits Grice's framework and (ii) ...
Kathleen Manzo's article discusses how educational TV programs are good sources for entertaining and educating young children. How educational TV programs can set teenagers on the right path of reading. She starts the article by talking about the TV programs and how it could teach skills. Manzo wrote about many experts in this field as Ms. Linebarger who is studying analyzing the influence of many popular shows on TV. She sees that we can merge the learning and the appeal to children but it t...
Hortatory exposition is a text which represent the attempt of the writer to have the addressee do something or act in certain way. In other words, a hortatory exposition is a text whose purpose is persuade the readers that something should or should not be the case or be done. Generic Structure of Hortatory Exposition 1. Thesis/ General Statement. 2. Arguments 3. Recommendation Language Feature of Hortatory Exposition 1. Focusing on the writer 2. Using abstract noun: policy, advantage, etc 3....
Adapt and change by developing positive habits: As a college student, students have to adapt to change by developing positive habits. For that they can reach their goals as easy as it should be. Developing positive habits can improve your success in your career, yet you will face many difficulties while changing your lifestyle, but it will help you deal with your own career building and makes you more responsible about your own achievement. (Siang) (http://www.fitzvillafuerte.com). How to cha...
Since a young boy, I have always listened to my mother's advice or orders. She is the one who taught me at home, commanded me to do things, and especially punished me when I did something wrong, or forgot doing what she had told me to do. When punishing me, she always said, "Next time, listen to me carefully". Therefore, to avoid the punishment, I always tried to listen to her attentively and to do what she asked me to do, and that affects my learning style today, in particular one in learnin...
According to this rubric, individual presentation is evaluated through four parts: pronunciation delivery, communication strategies, vocabulary language patterns, ideas & organization. Each content of the four part is very detailed, for example, in the communication strategies part, it covers body language, timing awareness, confidence. This criteria marking sheet has 0-6, that is 7 levels of grading, which made it more concrete and elaborate compared with ordinary 4 level ( excellent, good, ...
In my work I would like to present and critically discuss two linguistic approaches to equivalence , which in my opinion is the main aim of the translator. Equivalence has always been an unachievable aim of translators. Equivalence in the field of translation can be defined as the central issue , however its definition relevance and applicability have caused some controversies and due to this fact many theories of the idea of equivalence have been created. The idea of equivalence is without n...
