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Gender Biased Language
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6 pages in length. This paper reviews three articles on the title subject and analyzes each article. There are people who use language that would be considered biased in use. The question that is raised is this: Is the language a cause of the bias or is the bias a cause of the language used? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAlingu.wps
A Review of an Assessment of Whole Language Curriculum
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A 5 page review of a 1996 study published in the Journal of Educational Research assessing the successes and failures of whole language programs in several targeted school districts. A critique of the study and its conclusion is provided. The published study is attached to the critique. No other sources are cited.
Filename: Wholear2.wps
Lexical Study of Allomorphs and Conditions Surrounding Use
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Allomorphy is the group of suffixes and prefixes and other affixes to a word that change the meaning or application of the root word or root stem. In other words, an allomorph accomplishes a transformation from one word to another. The new word will have a different semantic use and quite possibly a different meaning, and often, both... Lexicon.... 9 Harvard style references. jvLexAlo.rtf
Filename: jvLexAlo.rtf
"Character"/A Dictionary Perspective
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A 4 page essay that looks at 3 definitions for the word "character," which the writer then argues is who we think we are, who other people think we are, and what we think of other people. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: kh3dic.rtf
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua
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A 3 page paper which summarizes the essay "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAanz.rtf
"Pudd'nhead Wilson," Roxana, and Dialect
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A 5 page paper which discusses Mark
Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson" as it involves the character of Roxana and her use of dialect.
The ideas of Bakhtin, as they relate to dialect, are also discussed as they relate to Twain's
writing and Roxana. Bibliography lists 8 additional sources.
Filename: RAtwainwlsn.wps
"Scrambling" in Japanese Linguistics
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(10pp). "Scrambling" in linguistics is examining
the word order in a sentence. Meaning or
understanding ay be distorted by inappropriate
word order. In an analytical overview of this
unique area of language studies it would appear
that not much research, has been completed in this
field. That which has been done is discussed in
this article. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BBlingjk.doc
"The Movement of the Simplification of Spelling in the English Language"
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A 7 page overview of the move to change the way we spell in the English language. While in the U.S. and the U.K. alike changes in spelling have been attempted to be implemented via a formal route, for the most part change has only occurred informally. We have generated formal proceedings and approvals throughout the years, even seen Presidential orders and House of Commons Bills but old spellings have stayed staunchly in place. The informal verses the formal aspects of the movement to simplify spelling, however, has been somewhat more successful. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPspell.rtf
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