“You’re just not understanding!” are words that run rampant in conversations between my husband and me. That is the reason I chose to read You Just Don’t Understand: Woman and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen. I needed insight, a way to view conversation differently, something to tell me I wasn’t going crazy when speaking to the male in my house. Sometimes, it would really feel as if I were talking to an alien, someone who spoke a completely different language, even though we use the same verbal
are people who regard themselves as citizens of a distinctive island nation in spite of their of their colonial condition and United States citizenship. Although English and Spanish are the official languages, Puerto Rico is overwhelmingly Spanish speaking, despite the fact of the government’s efforts to eradicate Spanish or foster bilingualism. Even though Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, the people there own culture and customs that have evolved over many centuries. The communicative
Speaking plays an active role in using a language to express meaning. Through spoken language, a new language is encountered, perceived, practiced and learned. Speaking is not only one of the aspects of learning a language, but the prime source of language learning. Unfortunately, speaking problems are the biggest challenges for foreign language learners. Speaking is the main language skill; however, majority of students and learners struggle to overcome their speaking difficulties. Through the golden
inappropriate. This situation applies to the encounter between Jeremy and Jabu from two different cultures: one adopted in Australia and another in South Africa. Jeremy possessed a sense of good anxiety — feeling pleased and were anticipating towards the contact, in which he developed positive expectation complimented with his experience gained from a science education project he conducted in Africa and readings about cultural differences, as stated in line 3-5. In terms of the out-group identification
years. During the interview, financial conversations among Gillis and the journalist consists of, how the grants received by Gillis are used, who awards the grants, and why funding is needed. Also, topics of dance as an art form and dancer’s salaries were discussed. Throughout the interview, I saw some aspects of my own interpretations that were interesting to discover and bring into light. Some of the central points described in the interview pertained to public funding of dance and how dance is expressed
Roy and Jones Inc. is a well-known international commerce and investment company. They were formerly known as a progressive corporation that embolden the hiring of women where a greater part of its staff are women. The firm also provide flexible working conditions which include both time and place of work. This means that their employees can have variable working hours depending on their needs and they can even work from home. However, currently the firm faces a bad reputation where they refrain
politeness Brown and Levenson’s theory is based on the existence of speakers and addressees(1987:58).Both speakers and addressees are rational agents who have something that Brown and Levenson call ‘face’. The term ‘face’ could be translated as a public self -image. The concept of face derives from earlier work by Goffman (1967) and from the English folk term used for example in the idiom of ‘losing face’ (Brown and Levenson 1987:61) Politeness theory on hedges relies heavily on linguistic analysis
using Pearson correlation formula. Findings • Findings showed that there are statistically significant differences in the achievement mean scores of the subjects of the experimental group who studied the passive voice via computer and the control group who studied the same grammatical item using the contemporary method. • The results of the present study found that no significant differences between the computerized
competitively superior customer value delivery system is a pre requisite for achieving effectiveness. Customer’s satisfaction and retention probably are directly dependent on his experiences. Philip Kotler defined the customer delivered value as the difference between the total customer value and total customer cost. The total customer value is the bundle
educational achievement between various groups of students white students and minorities. For instance, higher/lower income students, boys/girls and public/private schools. These achievement gaps can be measures by, test scores, GPA (Great Average Point), graduation and enrollment rate. This research will elaborate the meaning of achievement gap between genders. Males/females, boys/girls output will be measured and analyzed. Historically, two key theories were presented to show difference of gender attainment