- What claims language is a way of constructing a social reality and way of achieving social objectives?
- 'Reality is socially constructed... never beyond the field of human interpretive activity... things may never be simply taken for granted... and even the most cherished and obvious of assumptions must be interrogated'(Tuffin 2005
- adopts a critical stance towards taken-for-granted knowledge
- the theory of knowledge: what is accepted as knowledge
- an ever broadening church, an umbrella term for a wide variety of different analytic principles (edley, 2001)
- the study of being: what is the relationship between what exists and our interpretation
- systems of statements that construct an object
- dominant discourses impact on perceptions we hold of others and ourselves
- It’s possible to have ... when one of the two items is long enough: business administration 20 02010
- Pickpocket: compound noun with primary stress, as the first element is ...
- Phrases - mainly ...Sentences - reduction and weak forms.
- 5 SUB-GROUPS OF COMPOUND NOUNS: 1) ...'bull's eye2) ... ...3) ...bungee-jumping, 1020, shoplifting 120, file sharing 120, film-shooting4)... hiding-place 102, drinking water 10205) ...: lay-offs 12, showdown, burn-out 12
- In a compound there is only one primary stress. Secondary stress may come ...: shopping centre 1020. The... no longer applies
- He was standing in front of the white house.He was standing in front of the White house. (compound)Which words are stressed in each sentence?
- In a compound word, we ask: How do ...?Lexical level = starting point.Changes in the degree of prominence are both on the compound and the ... levels.Primary stress can become secondary stress, secondary stress can become primary stress.
- Compound nouns - compounds that ... The most frequent type of compounds in English (90%)
- There is significant variation in stress placement across accents, and within ...
- Ceremonial - ABC /ˌser.ɪˈməʊ.ni.əl/ ; ...is a stress-imposing ending, 20100Ceremony- ABC construction, cere+mon+y - it's ...
- The most frequent subtype: ...( 75% of all compound nouns)Bank account 102, crime rate 12, theme park 12, torture victim 1020, blood-money 120.
- Exceptions for stress in compound adjectives: N+...: lifelongN...: heart-breakingN+....: (the 1st element is the argument of the verb) grief-stricken.