simply three years, non-native English speakers started using LIKE in the same free form way that native English speakers do. Non-native English speakers believed that the word LIKE attracted intellectual snobbery because it was popularized by young women (2017). Ashley Hesson, a Michigan State University researcher, found that this uprising of LIKE speech became to be known as Valley Girl speech (2015). Her research with Madeline Shellgren, a doctorate in linguistics at Michigan State University, showed
used by them. Method which is applied in this study is descriptive qualitative by using sociolinguistics approach. Data got from the field by interviewing some people in Baduy Dalam. The results showed that (1) the usual greeting used as ‘salam’ for Baduy Dalam to show familiarity and politeness among other such as, Tabe’ pun ka girang? which means ‘excuse’ in English or by saying ‘Maap bae’
opportunity for men and women. In 1986 Japanese government brought to effect Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL). However, according to the Global Gender Gap Report, Japan’s 2012 gender gap indicates complete inequality (Adachi, 2013, p.640, Kitamura, 2008, p.75). The aim of this survey is to explore occupational gender stereotypes in Japan, and whether there is any difference compare to previous work in the same area of
Spoken and written discourse occurs in particular social and cultural settings and it is used and understood in different way in different social and cultural settings. The notions of discourse community and speech community influence what we say and how we say it in terms of the language variety we choose in writing or speaking; the speaker’s social class and social networks (generally speaking, the social class of the participants in any communication) also affect their use of language. These participants
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude