Fitness, Poetry, and Basque Culture: A Brief Overview

Fitness Book: Register

Depending on the characteristics of the situation, the sender needs to know how to select the speech. Who, where, with whom, what… there is always some communication with those we create in our state and jarduna. Hitz change the way we do; we have in front of children or the banks or the main diren. We are in a tavern, hospital, or non-important issues for funtsik we are speaking, to express feelings or ditugun. Hiru new record levels: Level-1 culture or received. Garrantzia.

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Linguistic Variation and Language in Society

Item 4: Linguistic Varieties and Norms

1. Types of Varieties:

  • Historical Variety: Changes that occur over time.
  • Geographical Variety: Changes produced according to geographical area.
  • Social Variety: Determined by culture, gender, age, etc.
  • Register Variety: Variety of an individual speaker.

2. The Rule:

In a linguistic community, the uses of certain groups have more prestige and are modeled on the correct usage of language. All of these uses constitute the norm and are the basis of the standard language.

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Understanding Classical Greek Tragic Playwrights

The Argument of Tragedy

The argument of tragedy is the downfall of an important person. The motive of Greek tragedy is the same as that of the epic, namely the myth, but from the standpoint of communication, tragedy develops an entirely new meaning: the mythos (μῦθος) merges with the action, i.e., with direct representation (δρᾶμα, drama). The public sees with their own eyes characters appearing as separate entities operating independently, the scene (σκηνή), provided each from their

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Muriel Spark: Biography and “You Should Have Seen the Mess”

Muriel Spark (1918-2006)

Muriel Sarah Camberg (known as Muriel Spark) was born in Edinburgh on February 1, 1918, and died in Florence on April 13, 2006. Educated in Edinburgh, she became editor of Poetry Review and later published a series of biographies of figures like Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë. She is best known for her novels, notably Memento Mori and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

She attended James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, where she met Christina Kay, who became the inspiration

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Literary Genres, Devices, and Poetic Forms Explained

Literary Genres, Devices, and Poetic Forms

Demonstrations, “Essay: variable extension work in which we develop a topical issue giving judgments and opinions personales.

Epistle: poetry or prose, with a letter approach, which develops themes related to society or politics, so instruct, moralize, or satirize.

Fable: a short story or little anecdote with didactic purposes. It usually takes the form of a moral teaching or maximum sentence called moraleja. Its characters are almost always animals and can

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Understanding Language Variations: Dialects, Jargon, and Slang

Understanding Language Variations

Generational Language Differences

Can three generational languages be found? Main features of each language:

  • Youth: Young people are often more receptive to recent creations, Anglicisms, and lexicon from older generations’ languages.
  • Marginal: More conservative, using words or phrases unknown to other age groups.
  • Child Language: Features related to the speaker still being immersed in the language learning process.

Jargon Explained

What is jargon? Jargons are linguistic

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