behavior of decency – cleverly enough – the “decent” behavior which represents the upper tiers of the value orientation scale (Anderson 2000: 35). On the other hand, many people struggle financially and thus have to “hustle” and perform an act of “code-switching” between decent and “ghetto” (or “street”) behaviors in order to secure their lives yet still fit into the ideals of society (Anderson 2000: 35-37). These acts (or lack thereof) create a marker for various individuals as to how high or low on
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Using Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) as a framework, this paper presents a multi-method investigation of the communicative behaviors in culturally heterogeneous workgroups (CHWs). Analysis of observations (participant and non-participant), semi structured interviews, and self-report surveys from both field and student samples provide insight on the communicative behaviors and strategies employed in the production and management of both productive and destructive conflict and outcomes for
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Kayla D. King Journal 9 December 1, 2013 CAT Part 1 The Communication Accommodation Theory came about after; Giles realized that speech goes beyond twangs, pronunciation, and gaps in speech. In 1987 Giles coined the Communication Accommodation Theory as a theory that is based on intercultural communication. Accommodation is the ongoing shift in communication that is either toward or away from others. This theory is based on two strategies: convergence and divergence. Both are seen
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thinks bilingualism is not the simple sum of a language and another language, but more complicated ability that is involved in a complex processing of human brain. Moreover, she saw code-switching as an actuality or evidence of procedure of bilingualism. At first, she refers to there are two types of code-switching; intrasentential and intersentential. Intrasentential occurs in boundaries of a clause or a sentence, so a speaker may add words or phrase of a language into a sentence in another language
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Code Switching Essay In 2013, A new language spoken only by people who were 35 years of age or younger was discovered in a remote community in northern australia(Shaw Alexis). The language was known as Light Warlpiri according to Carmel O’Shannessy, an assistant professor of linguistics at University of Michigan,Light Warlpiri is a melding of English,Kriol and Warlpiri.O’Shannessy said that while she worked at a school in Northern Australia,she realized that students would switch between
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JTV’s Program “NGAJI BLUSUKAN” in Sociolinguistic Perspective When I start to write this paper, I felt that it is very interesting for me to write about something that I like. There are many things came to my mind when the assignment was announced. In this paper I want to write about Ngaji Blusukan, one of JTV’s programs, in sociolinguistics perspective. Ngaji Blusukan is a program broad casted By JTV every the Monday to Friday at 5 pm. It is a religious monologue show and some time it is broadcasted
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Code Switching Assignment: “Charles Dickens’ relations to A Tale of Two Cities” Shaniyaz Chowdhury ENG 201-33 03. 14. 2014 A Tale of Two Cities and it's relation to the author Charles Dickens life It is to be believed that in “A Tale of Two Cities” Dickens reflects on his affair with eighteen year old actress Ellen Ternan. The relationship was maybe certainly romantic but also probably asexual. In his novel, Lucie Manette resembles Ellen Ternan physically. After starring in
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NAME: AKINDELE ADETOUN OLUWAFISAYO MATRIC NUMBER: 110502029 COURSE CODE: CSC 410 COURSE TITLE: DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS LECTURER: DR. OGUNDIPE DATE: 28TH APRIL, 2014 QUESTION: Differentiate between X.25 and Frame Relay. The biggest difference between Frame Relay and X.25 is that X.25 guarantees data integrity and network managed flow control at the cost of some network delays. Frame Relay switches packets end to end much faster, but there is no guarantee of data integrity at all. Frame Relay
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ABSTRACT In the context of the rapid growth of mobile computing penetration in developing countries, mobile telephony is currently considered to be particularly important for such development. Yet, until recently, very little systematic evidence was available that shed light on the developmental impacts of mobile computing. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the problems and prospects of mobile computing in Nigeria. The paper will be analyzed by theme in order to provide a thematic overview
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industries usually present high levels of rivalry. Many companies are conscious about industry concentration and in order to measure it, they use the “concentration ratio” (CR). The CR which has been reported by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification code) shows the percentage of the market share seized by the top 4 companies in the industry. If the industry has a high concentration ratio, this means that these firms are controlling the market by holding a big percentage of the market share. With only
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