Présenter une célébrité, un entrepreneur en anglais: COCO Chanel
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
The woman I chose to talk about is a legend. Her name is legendary and her products were and are still so popular. What if I ask you this simple question: What is the most famous French brand in the world?
Krugman et la redistribution aux USA
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
Today in America, the president is the millionaire Donald Trump. He campaigned for protectionism and tax cut. And even if the polemics the president started on social medias outshined his politics, he actually kept his promises. He signed a decree meaning the end of the American's participation...
Fighting fire with fire
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
The antebellum viewpoint on slavery remains controversial. Presaging the Civil War, a fierce political debate took place between the Southern defenders of slavery and the Northern abolitionists. The two sides argued over the political, economic, social, religious, biological, and racial...
Linguistic adaptation, English instruction, and the second generation Latino immigrant
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Linguistics & languages
Since colonial times, the U.S. has been a nation both divided and united by its ethnic and linguistic diversity. Benjamin Franklin himself regarded the German minority of Pennsylvania as linguistically and racially inferior, yet also printed the first German newspaper in Philadelphia (Baron,...
Surf's Up, Dude: Cowabunga
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
The mission lies before us: how are we, the American people, going to come together so that “cowabunga” is reinvigorated into mainstream conversation. It was not too terribly long ago, maybe 15 years, that this delightfully lighthearted interjection tickled the ears of various...
A Systematic Method for Interpreting Novel Compounds
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
A novel word is one that is not found in the lexicon of the general population; in other words, it is a word that people have not heard or seen previously. A novel compound is a compound word formed out of two or more individual known words where the combination of these words has not previously...
Syntactic Movement and Locative Incorporation in Exocentric Compounds
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Most people will agree that there are two main types of compound words, endocentric and exocentric. Endocentric compounds are those where the rightmost constituent, called the grammatical head, is what defines the category of speech and the semantic interpretation of the word. Exocentric...
Dialect as a Form of Identity
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Linguistics & languages
Every time a person opens his or her mouth to speak that person is speaking not only a language but a dialect of that language as well. It is a common misconception that only certain people whose pronunciations vary from what is considered Standard American English, speak a dialect. In fact,...
Similarities and Differences in Men's and Women's Cooperative Speaking Styles: An Analysis of Book Club Discussions
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Linguistics & languages
Some of the most frequently referred to but potentially erroneous stereotypes regarding gendered speaking style differences involve dichotomies. Men are competitive - women are cooperative. Men focus on impersonal topics - women focus on personal topics. Men's speech is to report - women's...
The Connection between Crossword Puzzles and Semantics
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Linguistics & languages
When a person sits down to work on a crossword puzzle the thought probably does not cross their mind that they are calling on various forms of linguistic knowledge in solving the crossword clues. The majority of basic language knowledge and usage is an unconscious phenomenon. It has been said...
