first the issue of inclusive language in Bible translation and then consider the use of the same in the naming of deity. The use of gender-neutral language in Bible translation is not a new development. Don Carson notes that in the first printed English New Testament, William Tyndale rendered Matt 5:9 as,' Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God,' despite the underlying Greek word `huioi' which is literally `sons.' Indeed Carson furthers notes that gender specific
INTRODUCTION Portfolios serve the purpose of an extensive record of a student’s best work and skills. As the student progresses through life, record keeping and reflection becomes an expectation. A résumé cannot possibly describe the entire list of qualities each individual possesses. As a result, portfolios thrive in high schools and offices alike to demonstrate a person’s capabilities in the greatest detail. Any person with a future-oriented mindset should have a portfolio to create opportunities
Gender-typed play is a very apparent aspect of preschool aged children’s play experiences (Goble, Martin, Hanish, & Fabes, 2012). Research indicates that female children prefer to play with feminine items, and male children prefer to play with masculine items (Goble et al., 2012). It is also evident that children prefer to play with peers of the same-sex (Fabes, Martin, & Hanish, 2003). This could potentially contribute to why research tends to show the same patterns in gender-typed play. However
most discussed and debated conversation that has been done over research writing is that, whether apprentice scholars is allowed to use personal pronouns and emotional language in research writing. This can be really confusing when apprentice scholars writing research paper , because lots of people have a same doubt in their brain, sometimes the personal pronouns and emotional language in the report or in research writing is more making sense with the writing and seems necessary in essay. Apprentice
metaphor, changing pronoun tense, and creating imagery; Margaret Walker not only defines her husband’s attributes but demonstrates their intimate relationship in Love Song for Alex. Margaret Walker is able to immediately draw the reader into the context of her poem, beginning it with a descriptive metaphor of her husband, while using singular, possessive pronouns which exemplify her love. By beginning “My monkey-wrench man is my sweet patootie,” Walker evokes not only her personal ties to her husband
texts. Unfortunately, some of the students tend to use personal pronouns
English grammar has constantly been changing ever since it existed. One of the changes it has suffered has been the decrease of declension, which consists in marking nouns, adjectives and pronouns to indicate a certain grammatical case, gender and number. Together with the loss of declension, Modern English also lost word order freedom, since a certain order needs to be maintained in sentences in order to make meaning. In Modern English, it is only possible to recognize the subject and the object
divided into three types. They are personal references, demonstrative references, and comparative references (Halliday and Hasan, 1976:37) 2.3.3.1 Personal Reference Personal reference is reference by means of function in the speech situation, through the category of person (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 37). The personal category includes the three classes of personal pronouns, possessive determiners usually called ‘possessive adjectives’) and possessive pronouns (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 43). The
that women use more personal pronouns when writing than men. A group of Koppel’s computer scientists analyzed the writings of men and women by comparing them with their invented algorithm. The team found that women tend to utilize a greater number of personal pronouns than men. Often times men write about objects rather than people while women enjoy writing about people and expressing their emotions. (365). Personal pronouns such as “he”, “she”, “you”, and “they” produce personal and emotional meanings
States wanted to educate the Hawaiians, and had to translate the spoken Hawaiian language into a written form. Hiram Bingham, one of the missionaries that arrived in Hawaii noticed that “Hawaiians struggled with the very different sound patterns of English: a plethora of consonant clus... ... middle of paper ... ...hich is Austronesian. Also, in Melanesia, which is located in the Southern Pacific, seems to have been explored by missionaries, just as how the missionaries have explored Hawaii. Not
possibly one of the greatest examples to examine the use of English pronouns in Shakespeare. Other languages such as French, German or Spanish, have always had different pronouns to indicate politeness, social ranks, formality, affection and solidarity as can be seen in the difference between the forms vous and tu in French, du and Sie in German, or tu and usted in Spanish. Even though the so-called ‘relevant’ pronoun no longer exists in English, nowadays it uses variable naming to express the relationships
Pronouns are forms that often act as a kind of shorthand for referring to some personal noun phrase or entity or event. Personal pronouns refer to persons or entities (you, possessive she, I, it, me, etc.). Possessive pronouns are forms of personal pronouns that indicate either actual possession or more often just an abstract relation between the wh person and some object (my, your, his, her, its, one's, our, their). Wh-pronouns (what, who, whom, whoever) are used in certain question forms, or may
William Shakespeare is an outstanding pioneer of the English language in Early Modern English period between 1500 and 1700. Undeniably, he made a great contribution to the development of English language. His contribution is strongly related to Elizabethan English (Knowles, 1997). His literary works could reflect his language features and Early Modern English characteristics. King Lear selected in this essay is one of his famous tragedies. It was written by him between 1603 and 1608. This play revolves
to ensure Cleopatra does not kill herself so he can parade her in the streets of Rome. Considering the fact that Proculeius is aware of her fragile state of mind, it seems unusual that he would address her with thee/thou especially as the default pronoun here should be you. However this is how he greets her in Act 5 Scene 2: ‘Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt; And bids thee study on what fair demands Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.’ There are different possible reasons for his choice
appeal feminine, the character has to do something feminine. This can happen in the real world as well as fictional. If I failed to appeal masculinity in the real life, I would struggle between my identity as a man and as myself. I will share my personal story. I am living in a student dorm and sharing a room and bathroom with my roommate. I am born and raised in Japan, so I am little bit nervous about living with an American student because his custom is different from mine. I would harm or give
I. Introduction In this document, I will describe a teacher and her students in an observation I did in a false beginner English as Second Language (ESL) class at the University of Texas. The purpose of this report is to reflect on the teacher’s teaching strategies and class environment in relation with what I have learned in my Teaching Methods class. Throughout this paper, a variety of students’ and teacher’s behavior will be discussed that will be analyzed in the reflection section.
it is being used. In this study, I will first talk about the history of how these distinctive languages have developed. Then, I will examine the use of words in the contemporary Japanese language. This use of words will include the first person pronouns used in a speech, and also the sentence end particles. After the usage, I will use the experiment to conclude about the conversational dominance between male and female speaker. At the end, I would like to sum up with the explanation of why sexist
a language" (Trask). For example, English nouns have the grammatical category of number. Thus the singular `dog' and the plural `dogs' exist but are not interchangeable in a sentence. A noun can be used only in its singular or plural form as there is no possibility of another form. English adjectives vary for degree; verbs for tense; pronouns for case etc. Traditional grammarians divide the words of English into eight classes or parts of speech- noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, preposition, conjunction
a) The underlined group of words is a noun phrase I know it is a noun phrase because a cat is a thing and fits the description of a noun. The grammatical function of the underlined group of words is subject. I applied a tag question to determine this was the subject. In absence of an operator I used the base do. So the sentence now reads The cat did fall out of the tree. Because the operator is the first word of the verb phrase it takes the tense. To get a question I move the operator to the front
Writing Style What is writing style? I started out thinking that writing style is a personal thing and that all writers have their own style. But, this way of thinking is really just a simple way to answer the question. After more careful thought, I realized that style is actually quite the opposite of personal and original. Style is a form of standardization. As writers, we all follow certain rules and guidelines to make our point. Style is these rules and guidelines. For a writer to better