Morphology of Jaunsari

Ballads

Prakrit language

Folk-customs

Advertisements in Tamil mass media

A transformational account of the morphophonological processes employed

Disorders in Schizophrenia

The aim of this paper is to shed light on euphemism in two different senses: sweet talking and deception. I shall treat euphemism from two different perspectives: the usual use of euphemism, sweet talking, in which it is used to maintain one's face and the orthophemistic sense, deception, where 'torture' is referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques". I shall analyze examples, taken from religious, cultural, political backgrounds, on each case. Moreover, I shall talk about taboo since it is usually associated with euphemism. I shall talk about the referential (semantic) and expletive (pragmatic) aspects of swearing expressions. In this essay, I shall show that euphemism can be used in two different senses: sweet talking and deception.

This thesis presents a study of language learning strategy use in a working ESL listening curriculum that incorporates explicit strategy training. The main goal of this study was to investigate listening strategy use in a regular classroom setting as opposed to a controlled experiment. Thus, strategy training was not prescribed as a treatment for experimental purposes, but rather already existed as part of the normal classroom routine. Specifically, this study sought to answer: 1) whether students would use those strategies they learned about; 2) whether there would be a difference in frequency of strategy use between authentic texts and those created specifically for language instruction; 3) whether those who typically use strategies would perceive them to be easier than those who didnt; and 4) whether those who typically use strategies would perform better on listening comprehension exercises. Participants were those students who the host institution placed in two sections of its high-intermediate ESL listening course, and as such constituted a naturally occurring classroom group. Data on learning strategy use was elicited through written retrospective reports students wrote in six three-question surveys that accompanied classroom listening exercises. Key findings were that learners do not consistently report that they use those strategies for which they receive explicit training; learners do not report the use of social and affective strategies; students report significantly less strategy use on authentic exercises than they do on exercises from the course materials; those who typically use strategies found exercises to be easier, overall, than those who didnt typically use them; and that there was no reliable relationship between strategy use and performance on multiple choice comprehension questions. The study confirms Donato & McCormicks (1994) claim that instruction in encapsulated strategies will not necessarily lead to strategy use and concludes that literature on language learning strategies tends to neglect the external variables such as input complexity and social context that inherently exist in a natural classroom language learning setting.

This study employs a matched-guise attitude survey, as well as interview data, in order to monitor a potential change in language attitudes since further political liberalization and reconciliation of identity within Taiwan. This research replicates Feifel's (1994) earlier study in which a Taiwanese influenced Mandarin Chinese (Taiwanese-Mandarin) scored lowest on factors of solidarity, status, and activity in comparison with Southern Min and Standard Mandarin. Two pairs of adjectives derived from previous interviews with Taiwanese were added to the matched-guise questionnaire. Results confirmed the reliability of the replicated study; however, the additional adjectives showed a significant result that casts doubt on the validity of the methodology. It is argued that these results could indicate the superiority of an indigenously-derived instrument for the matched-guise/survey methodology, rather than one translated from previous research conducted in various cultural settings.