J.C.: it’s an important part of Australian language and culture and is the reason behind the use of such vernacular. For instance the inclusion of teenage slang, swearing and references to teenager idioms such as “lazy prick”, “stupid wanker”, and “arvo”, I believe would allow me to speak directly to the target audience which is teenagers, and in some way shape the audience's attitudes and ideas towards the events faced in the novel. I thought using Aussie teenage lingo would be more relatable. Also I feel that authenticity is added to the text through the voices of each of the different characters. They are all modern Australian teenagers and to use another voice and different lingo would serve as an injustice to the characters telling their
The national identity of Australia has also developed strangely when dealing with taboo, especially with the younger Australians. Many youths no longer find many profanities as rude or taboo as the older generations, in particular with words like “fuck”, “shit” and “bloody” which used to be packed with a certain punch. In fact, many of these words are actually used as interjections (“Shit! No way!”),
In the editorial “Fighting Words: The War Over Language” By Jon Hooten , he’s argument is that war can be a terrible thing to have and to experience. Through my eyes i see that war can change people due to all the terrible things they saw and some people out there don’t really know much of the affects of wars. He says “Those of us sitting in high school during the winter of 1991 watched the airstrikes on Baghdad through the glassy eyes of CNN, with Peter Arnett and Wolf Blitzer calling the play by play”. What he saying is that in our current century we don’t really have to experience war to be able to know of the affects of war due to the news
“If Only We All Spoke Two Languages” is an segment written by Ariel Dorfman that discusses the benefits of the United States becoming a bilingual and or a multilingual society. The piece was written in March 2004 and first appeared in the novel “Everything’s an Argument with Readings”. In the portion author Ariel Dorfman criticized Americans for being monolingual. The author illustrates how learning a second language “builds a bridge” to the English language. Dorfman continues to give statements of how advantages being multi or bilingual can be stating that it offers people “economic and political edge” and assists them in “understand someone else's culture.” The author concludes that if Americans do not follow through with procedures to increase
{OSS: Discuss how to document symptoms in journals with good descriptions of time/date, duration, intensity, and quality. Give good positive and negative examples. Be careful to avoid having an overwhelming number of symptoms and confusing day-to-day issues like a minor headache of muscle pain after jogging 5 miles as a symptom. Discuss “pain on a scale of one to ten” line here. When one goes to the doctor, they often get asked “are you in any pain.” If the answer is “yes” then they are asked to rate it on a scale of 1 – 10 where 10 is the worst pain you have ever felt. Discuss how to rate the pain as objectively as possible, without underestimating it, or overestimating it. Do
Today’s Kids Are, Like, Killing the English Language by Kirk Johnson shows hows the kids today are changing the ways they speak. The quote, “Even my sons might stop me at this point and squash my hyperbole with a quickly dispensed, ‘Yeah, right, Dad.’(Johnson)” shows how his preteen boy may talk to him. Also another quote,” Parent: Good morning, son, it’s a beautiful day. Eleven year-old boy: Duh(Johnson)” also gives a nice example on how young kids responses are different. The way kids speak has evolved to becoming slangy or almost incorrect. Kids can be influenced to talk like
What makes you a worthwhile helper? Well, I’m just willing to help the server. Nevertheless, I know how the staff team works and I think I can fit in it. I like helping people who are confused about something or someone is harassing them. I think I will have enough time to do reports and warn players who are hacking, harassing etc. I’m also mature enough for my age and I can handle situations from trivial ones to very important ones.
The novel called The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, the characters' own local slang enriches the plot and helps the readers to embrace the story line and the characters. To begin with, the phrases and the words the characters use implicitly tells the readers the content. Many of the words relate to violence and alcohol. These words show the world Ponyboy and his gang live in. For example, when Ponyboy says "I don't want to be a hood, but even if I don't steal and mug people and get boozed up..." (113) the words hood, mug and the phrase get boozed up give themselves away.
Listen to your teacher and repeat the words below. Then work in pairs and practise saying these words.
Language is an essential element in any play, as it is not only the means by which characters are communicate with an audience, but also gives insight into characters’ livelihood. In No Sugar, there are two major dialects consistently spoken, the formal vernacular of the white man, and the informal pidgin of the Aborigines. In the text, language serves 2 purposes to a reader, the first of which is to highlight inequity. As mentioned, the white characters of the text speak formally, such as Neville, who often uses large words most readers would consider profound and would associate with high education. For example, when discussing his relocation plans for the Aborigines, he states “…I’ve got all the warrants, following your own census, sergeant… I’ll obtain any additional warrants.
In chapter 3, the repeated phrase “hunted out” (or “hunt out” ) sticks out the most because the phrase is such a hard-hitting and vivid word choice. The first time I noticed the use of this phrase was on page 63, Kingston explains that her mother wanted privacy, so she “hunted out” a secret hiding place at school. In this context, the use of “hunted” makes her seem like a scavenger, trying to find her own little habitat that she could mark as her own territory. “Hunted” is deliberate, instead of merely stumbling upon a secret place, which simply gives it more power. It gives it more power not only to the reader, but for Kingston as well because it’s her word choice, and she wanted to convey her mother in a certain aspect.
I use the Swales and Feak’s (2012) language analysis feature to analyze the article called “Top marginal taxation and economic growth”. In this article, the writers mention that “This article aims at contributing to the ongoing debate by exploring the relationship between top marginal taxation on personal income and economic growth on a sample of 18 OECD countries over the period 196-2009” (Mailasi & Robert, 2018, p.2157). In this sentence, instead of using the first-person pronoun, the writers use “the article” as the subject. The writers want readers to focus more on their research than on themselves (Swales.J.M. & Feak, 2012). Because Accounting is a neutral subject. Accountants use objective data to persuade others. Therefore, accounting related articles need to have a more neutral attitude and try to avoid subjective assumptions.
In order to analyze evidence of children’s language and literacy learning, I determined my student’s language and literacy skill baseline and compared his progress throughout the semester to this initial starting point. All assessment data came from Bader Reading Passages, Words Their Way Developmental Spelling Analysis Elementary Spelling Inventory, EDT 346 Course Info running records (narrative and informational), 50 Literacy Strategies Cloze procedure, and EDT 346 Course Info multidimensional fluency scale assessment. This assessment data enables me to analyze and understand what the student is proficient at, what he needs more support with, and what his independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels are. One particular example
Strayed’s use of descriptive imagery allows her to effectively convey her message. Throughout the memoir, Cheryl communicates the life lessons of focusing on the present and being happy about the little things in life. For example:
Option No.2 is the best. According to Cathy, Firoz’s ability for doing the nonverbal jobs, such as bank reconciliation and financial reports, is undoubtedly “first rate”. As a non English speaker, Firoz’s ability of getting all his nonverbal jobs done well in English has already shown his English ability and learning ability. Cathy may expect someone in Firoz’s position to have great communication skills, but nobody is perfect. Communication skills can be taughted and improved over time; someone speaks English fluently does not mean he has great communication skills.Cathy requires her coworkers to speak in her rapid-fire Brooklyn accent; Cathy is more self-centred. She needs to know to how interact with people from different background and
The frequent use of slang and colloquial language represents the Australian culture and way of life. Also, use of football jargon such as ‘goal-to-goal line’ shows how familiar the club members are with their sport.