british and american english differences exercises

... of British and American English London: Oxford University Press 1972 Lioyd D J., and H R Warfel, American English in tts Cul- tural Setting New York: Alfred A Knopf 1956 Marckwardt A H., American ... 9BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander L G., Fluency in English, New Concept English, London: Longman 1967 Brook G L., English Dialects Cambridge: W Heffer and Sons Ltd 1963 Bronstein A J., The pronunciation of American ... situation in which Americans and Englishmen would have to use dictionaries in order to understand one another will never ensue. Trang 6NOTES 1 In A H Marckwardt’s, American, English., p 49 Accor-

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... market to defeat someone badly to talk boringly and at length A careful reader will notice that in a great many instances two equivalent American and British expres- sions differ only by one single ... nails /to/ havea /to have shot of a spot of /to/ have /to/ have eno- enough to ugh and to /to/ hem and /to/ hum and /to/ hop to /to/ jump to it it if worse if the worst comes to comes to the in ... expressions seems hardly plausible Therefore, in this handbook a random choice of current phrases is sug- gested For simplification purposes the few similies and sayings present in the following lists,

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... hations Literary and colloquial vocabulary seem to be gradually merging, i.e., there are more and more instances of Americanisms in Britain and of Briticisms in America On the othier hand, slang expressions ... Great Britain Due to an extensive exchange of films and books as well as the spread of radio and television, a number of originally American words and expressions also began to be used in Britain ... affected by the various processes that affect the vocabulary and grammar of either variety The vast corpus of vocabulary differences between BE and AH, which is in part represented below, came about,

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... Trang 1British English American Englishaccommodation accommodations action replay instant replay agony aunt advice ... holidaymaker vacationer in hospital in the hospital Trang 6housing estate housing developmenthundreds and thousands sprinkles (for ice cream) ice lolly Popsicle (trademark) icing sugar confectioners’ sugar ... skipping rope jump rope skirting board baseboard sleeping partner silent partner snakes and ladders chutes and ladders soya/soya bean soy/soybean Trang 11spring onion green onionStanley knife utility

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 22:31

... Trang 139 British and American English Write down the British or American words for the following: Trang 24 () Bits and pieces 2 write the number of each drawing ... wench eating sandwiches ( ) 4 February 18th at Grove Road, Bristol, to Mr and Mrs Andrew Burgess, a 5 The dog was seen swimming around unable to get out of the water The police were old and they asked ... and also write down which word should have been used instead (See example) 1 Lost: black and white kitchen, four months old, Farm Road area KITTEN ‹ 2 Police say the car was later found abandoned

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 12:20

... 2010 in both American and British Online Newspaper Discourse In other words, a discourse-analytical approach that is interdisciplinary and encompasses the linguistic, conceptual and socio-cultural ... ‘The Daily Telegraph‘ 1.4.1 The Corpus Even though British and American broadsheets are seen as “the fourth estate”, where the newspaper owners and advertisers are, in principle, free from government ... political stances and editorial perspectives adopted by the respective owners and advertisers This idea is clearly encapsulated by Charteris-Black’s (2004) assertion that since political and media discourse

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... 24filtered culturally and contribute inadvertently to a “collective bias in understanding the world” The distribution of conceptual metaphors across the selected subset of American and British broadsheets ... sovereignty and security and foreign policy discourse” (p.416) Thus, it can be seen that Chilton adopts the strong view of CMT that metaphor undergirds human cognition and communication and is a ... in politics and the media: 1 Coercion through the use of resources to influence and dictate agendas with the threat of force 2 The legitimisation and delegitimisation of in-groups and out-groups

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... analysis and evaluation of the associated British and American metaphors in this thesis 3.5.4.2 A holistic diagrammatic depiction: The interaction of metaphor categories for ‘Substances and materials: ... and DISEASE influence and constrain the public’s political imagination by imposing these relevant concepts onto social and political realities This underscores the importance of identifying and ... media and politics These include the CONTAINER schema (in reference to defending and shielding from negative external forces), the PATH/JOURNEY schema (in reference to the concept of a mission and

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Oil Spill and the relevant entities encapsulated within the narrative (such as BP itself, the British and American Governments, the spilt oil as an entity, the notions of POLITICS and INTERNATIONAL ... and explicate the use of the proposed IICM for an in-depth metaphorical analysis of the BP oil spill in British and American newspapers This will be accomplished through the use of WMatrix and ... on integrated online concordancing platforms like WMatrix (and its corresponding USAS and “broad-sweep” functions) and Sketch Engine (and the resulting word sketches) reduces the reliance on researcher

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... selected British and American broadsheets This is significant as the evaluations and metaphors generated in these popular mainstream broadsheets aid the reader in organising the events and the ... BP are portrayed as having a “stranglehold on American policies and behaviour”, resulting in the “choking” of the American working peoples’ social and economic futures The lexical item - “stranglehold” ... “corrupt” and “unholy alliance” in the Macmillan and Collins Dictionary where the concept of dishonest, illegal, and immoral activities take precedence in the pursuit of money, power and other

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... nationalistic elements in the British corpora are brought to the fore in the activated mental model where British interests (British investments, a British-based company and British pride) are portrayed ... strongly favours British and American interests in general, while overlooking the losses of the real victims Text 5.3 highlights BP’s status as a CORE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN ECONOMY ... scenario has potentially created a distorted view of the socio-political and economic repercussions to both British and American societies by negating the option of a compromise or middle ground

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Trang 1CHAPTER 6 METAPHORS IN AMERICAN & BRITISH MEDIA DISCOURSE: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE 6.1 Introduction: The American broadsheets vs the British broadsheets (A comparative ... strict criteria and in accordance to a pre-determined timeframe It is important to note that the analysis is streamlined into two broad evaluative categories across both American and British media ... comparison of metaphor types in British and American Broadsheets (G & TT, NYT & WP): Trang 4Summing up the results of the aggregate empirical analysis and the metaphor conceptual keys

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Oil Spill e.g the current British and American metaphorical representations of BP is of significance in accounting for BP’s prospects and long-term survival in the US and beyond (as lawsuits are ... explicit and intense metaphorical framings of the scale of the disaster and on the ideological adherence to notions of justice and ecological sustainability (MORAL-ACCOUNTING METAPHOR/ CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ... the liberal broadsheets in both the Britain and America (the NYT-corpus and Trang 5the G-corpus) frame the conflict in predominantly antagonistic and nationalistic terms These liberal broadsheets

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... kinds of English Trang 2Soda PopSoft Drink Trang 3British AmericanTrang 4American Trang 5American Trang 6American Trang 7American Trang 8American Trang 9American Trang 10American Trang 11American ... Trang 12American Trang 13American Trang 14American Trang 15American Trang 16American Trang 17Fairy Floss/ Candy Floss Cotton Candy American Trang 18American Trang 19American Trang 20American ... 21American Trang 22Money American Trang 23(Gasoline) American Trang 24American Trang 25Toilet American Trang 26American Trang 27American Trang 28American Trang 29American Trang 30Pack of American

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2016, 06:09

... kinds of English Trang 2Soda PopSoft Drink Trang 3British AmericanTrang 4American Trang 5American Trang 6American Trang 7American Trang 8American Trang 9American Trang 10American Trang 11American ... Trang 12American Trang 13American Trang 14American Trang 15American Trang 16American Trang 17Fairy Floss/ Candy Floss Cotton Candy American Trang 18American Trang 19American Trang 20American ... 21American Trang 22Money American Trang 23(Gasoline) American Trang 24American Trang 25Toilet American Trang 26American Trang 27American Trang 28American Trang 29American Trang 30Pack of American

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2016, 14:56

... speeches? 2 How are the processes employed in the British political speeches? Trang 53 What are similarities and differences in the British and American political speeches under the umbrella of ... reliable and valid Trang 103.2 SAMPLING The samples are from the political speeches of British Prime Ministers (British corpus) with 204,310 words at 50.09% and American Presidents (American ... distribution of processes in the British an American political speeches Among the topics in political speeches delivered by the British and American politicians, wars, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2018, 11:19

... comprehension and application in English discourse analysis British and American political speeches - To compare the similarities and differences in the use of mitigation markers between British and American ... by British and American politicians 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims The study aims at extensively investigating epistemic modality expressions used as mitigation markers that British and American ... speakers as British and American politicians, this can be concluded that it may represent for authenticity and validity 3.2.2 Collecting texts and building the research corpora Tables 3.1 and 3.2

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2018, 12:57

... speeches? 2 How are the processes employed in the British political speeches? Trang 53 What are similarities and differences in the British and American political speeches under the umbrella of ... reliable and valid Trang 103.2 SAMPLING The samples are from the political speeches of British Prime Ministers (British corpus) with 204,310 words at 50.09% and American Presidents (American ... distribution of processes in the British an American political speeches Among the topics in political speeches delivered by the British and American politicians, wars, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2018, 13:16

... comprehension and application in English discourse analysis British and American political speeches - To compare the similarities and differences in the use of mitigation markers between British and American ... by British and American politicians 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims The study aims at extensively investigating epistemic modality expressions used as mitigation markers that British and American ... speakers as British and American politicians, this can be concluded that it may represent for authenticity and validity 3.2.2 Collecting texts and building the research corpora Tables 3.1 and 3.2

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2019, 10:27

... IGMs used in PSs by British and American politicians Trang 6- Point out the similarities and differences in the semantic role and the pragmatic features of IGMs in British and American politicians’ ... SFG of Michael Halliday and present a comparison of the use of IGMs in British English and American English through the analysis of data collection from 112 British and American PSs which are ... APS and BPS 2 What are semantic and pragmatic features of IGMs employed in PSs by British and American politicians? 3 What are the similarities and the differences in the use of IGMs of British

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