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121linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …
122writing — /ruy ting/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that writes. 2. written form: to commit one s thoughts to writing. 3. that which is written; characters or matter written with a pen or the like: His writing is illegible. 4. such characters or… …
123Comprehension approach — The comprehension approach is an umbrella term which refers to several methodologies of language learning that emphasise understanding of language rather than speaking.[1] This is in contrast to the better known communicative approach, under… …
124Systemic functional grammar — (SFG) or systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is a model of grammar that was developed by Michael Halliday in the 1960s. [http://www.isfla.org/Systemics/Definition/definition.html, accessed 30 July 2008] It is part of a broad social semiotic… …
125Autism therapies — A three year old with autism points to fish in an aquarium, as part of an experiment on the effect of intensive shared attention training on language development.[1] Autism therapies attempt to lessen the deficits and …
126Jürgen Habermas — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century color = #B0C4DE name = Jürgen Habermas birth = birth date and age|1929|6|18 school tradition = Critical theory main interests = Social Theory· Epistemology Political theory·… …
127Ali H. S. Hajjaj — Dr. Ali Hussein Salman Hajjaj (1933–2004) was the first non English speaking person to acquire a (Ph.D.) in Applied Linguistics of the English Language. He attained his Ph.D. from University of Lancaster, UK in 1979. The late Dr. Ali was born in… …
128Postmodernist theory — Lyotard, Baudrillard and others Thomas Docherty INTRODUCTION Philosophy has been touched by postmodernism. Philosophy, in the modern academy, is supposed to be the discipline of disciplines: it is philosophy which will be able to gather together …
