Offensive language

a new language General Purpose: To Persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to learn one or more other languages. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Visual Aid: PowerPoint Claim: Value INTRODUCTION I. Attention Step: A. Attention Getter: No offensive but I want to share with you guy a joke. If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks many languages is multilingual, then what do you call someone who speaks only one language? An American

Political correct language limits the use of offensive terms that promote conscious thinking about how people stereotype one another. Politically incorrect language is demanding to many racial groups such as Native Americans who are mocked through the Washington “Redskins”. Those with special needs have also been affected by politically incorrectness because they feel out of place when being referred to as “mentally retarded.” This process is called the Euphemism Treadmill cycle. Euphemism Treadmill

Sacred Language of Toni Morrison         Toni Morrison makes a good point when, in her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, she says, “Narrative . . . is . . . one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge” (7).  The words we use and the way in which we use them is how we, as humans, communicate to each other our thoughts, feelings, and actions and therefore our knowledge of the world and its peoples.  Knowledge is power.  In this way, our language, too,

Across an endless time continuum through many different eras, many individuals from various different language backgrounds have experienced speech or communication disorders—including swallowing disorders, the incapability to coherently speak certain words, and auditory processing difficulties. According to the speech-language hearing association (ASHA), a communication disorder is defined as an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process, and comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal and

Assignment 2: Figurative Language versus Literal Language The lack of exposure to non literal forms of language makes it difficult to engage in productive thinking. Having the capacity to understand figurative language increases our ability to communicate with each other. By increasing our word bank we expand our knowledge base and increase our thinking capacity. Below are a list of ten words with their meaning, definitions, examples and appropriate circumstances in which to use them. 1. Describe

Pragmatics refer to the appropriation and use of different forms of language in their appropriate social situations. Across the spectrum of social situations there’s a range of language forms that are socially acceptable for each. Learning to recognize in which instance different language forms are appropriate is known as following pragmatic rules of speech. Communication competence refers to our capacity to use our different language elements in a way that’s effective and completes our output of speech

Every society has a different definition of normal as you look into the language they speak, nonverbal communication and body language of a specific culture. People who may have a disorder also have a different normal in the way they relate to others, and how they are viewed in society. What is then normal in one culture may mean something totally different in another, and the interpretation of body language, verbal and nonverbal communication can affect the way someone is looked upon or treated

children’s hands represents language. 2. What does the old woman mean when she says of the bird: “I don’t know…in your hands”? Why do you think she repeats – “It is in your hands.”? How has this phrase become a metaphor? What is it a metaphor for? The old woman, when she says of the bird “I don’t know…in your hands,” means that the fate of the bird is inevitably going to be decided by the children. She repeats the phrase, “it is in your hands,” being as the bird symbolizes language, to emphasize that the

Controlling Katherine: The Cruelty, Abuse, and Manipulation of Petruchio’s Language Part of why Shakespeare’s plays have enjoyed popularity and critical acclaim through the years is their status as “a handy repository of exempla, cautionary tales, and wonderfully vivid scenes and characters” (Hume 64). One of Shakespeare’s plays that both can serve as cautionary tale and contains vibrant scenes and characters is The Taming of the Shrew, particularly evident in the tempestuous duo of Katherine and

words "nigger" and "chink", which are words in our language mostly ignorant people use. Naylor and Leong are also both minorities who were raised in America. They talk about how discrimination and hatred towards minorities is almost always inevitable in America, which is mostly populated by Caucasians. Naylor and Leong