Exploring LanguageAddison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated, 1997 - Language Arts & Disciplines |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 22
Page 4
... describing a specific language or even a language family . Perhaps more accurately , he is describing " language activity " -the propensity to encode experiential reality into units of meaning , and to arrange those units of meaning to ...
... describing a specific language or even a language family . Perhaps more accurately , he is describing " language activity " -the propensity to encode experiential reality into units of meaning , and to arrange those units of meaning to ...
Page 77
... describe the Gulf War reporting . Like each different narrator in the film , different commentators had different ways of describing the events and motivations for the war . One definition of the phenomenon : " The inability of ...
... describe the Gulf War reporting . Like each different narrator in the film , different commentators had different ways of describing the events and motivations for the war . One definition of the phenomenon : " The inability of ...
Page 129
... describe each other's hair color . Whether the speaker is deliberately trying to mislead the landlady , or is simply struggling with the impossibility of naming skin color with any precision is open for discussion . 4. The speaker says ...
... describe each other's hair color . Whether the speaker is deliberately trying to mislead the landlady , or is simply struggling with the impossibility of naming skin color with any precision is open for discussion . 4. The speaker says ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
SOME PERSONAL BEGINNINGS | 8 |
Talking in the New Land | 14 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
According action advertising agree American argues argument attitude audience authors become begins behavior believe calls cites claim clearly collective color communication consider course create culture describe disabilities effective efforts emotional English especially essay ethnic euphemisms example experience expression fact feel final gender gives hand human humor idea identity illustrates implies important individual instance insult interesting issues kind lack language less linguistic male meaning object offer Open for discussion opinion paragraph perhaps phrase piece political possible probably problem propaganda question readers reason reference response Rhetorical Considerations rules says seems sense sentence sexual social sound speak speaker specific speech statement suggests talk things tone Topical Considerations woman women words writing young