Category: Speech

Examples of group terms used by a speech community in the university Parallel Program- The term is pronounced as the English words meaning degree program designed to transfer a qualified student to universities although not selected by the university. LM; a female student at the university. “The exam was difficult but I qualified for the…

Table of Contents Introduction Main text Conclusion Works Cited Introduction If we would like to discuss the role of phonological representations in speech, then we need to focus on such phenomenon as the phonological neutralization. This phenomenon actually eliminates a phonemic distinction, especially in a particular context of the phonology. Such an example as a…

Hegemony is commonly defined as a method of subordinating another population by forcing consent to domination and a foreign ideology. A key concept in hegemony is the naturalization of power relations by creating an illusion that the domination is status quo. Language and culture are common means of achieving this. Linguistic hegemony is more accurately…

Introduction Language processing and word formation constitute the major dilemma for psycholinguistic and neuro-linguistic research. The word building deserves a special consideration in terms of different models of word organization. Hence, it is necessary to take into account morphological, lexicological, and psychological aspects. Processing mechanisms reveal the internal mechanism occurred in human brains, which is…

Table of Contents Standard and Non-Standard Dialects Speech Communities and Communities of Practice Perception of /r/ Social Variation Regional Variation Standard and Non-Standard Dialects To find out how people make use of both standard and non-standard dialects, I made a decision to observe the conversation between a teacher of English and a student. The teacher…

The purpose of the following paper is to critique special occasion speeches using the provided speech evaluation form. The evaluated speeches are presented in the form of video. Each of these two speeches will be evaluated separately. The first speech was made by Matthew McConaughey at the eighty-sixth Oscar Academy Awards in 2014. The audience…

The document, rather the speech was first delivered by Sir James Henry Hammond, who was the Senator or Governor of South Carolina, in the Senate of the United States of America. This speech is a primary source because this document on slavery was delivered and documented during a period when the slavery system was the…

Table of Contents Source Importance Source Description Events Evident from the Source Results That Events Led to Summary References Source Importance The October Crisis was inspired by the Liberation Front of Quebec (Front de Liberation du Québec, abbreviated as FLQ), a left-wing group that emerged in the early 1960s. Today, despite the polarity of assessments…

Social speech is usually used in a casual setting with either friends, classmates, family, acquaintances, or strangers. The vocabulary and stylization of the speech can vary vastly depending on who I am speaking to, but the purpose of this kind of speech is almost always the same, to relate, entertain, or listen to the other…

Habilitation is a process that allows specialists to help people acquire specific skills and abilities which are necessary for their full functioning and without which they cannot consider themselves normal. In speech-language pathology (SLP), this service most often concerns children whose speech abilities are not developed to the level they usually form at that age…