Category Archives: 星砂瓶子 ◆ misc.
Country Report: the Finnish languages
十月 21, 2007 – 5:08 am
Finnish and Swedish are both official languages in Finland. Small Sami- and Russian-speaking minorities account for less than 2.5% of total speakers, whereas Finnish alone accounts for more than 90% of total speakers. (CIA, 2007) English is, like in many other countries, the most popular foreign language and widely spoken.
The language behavioural changes of Chinese-speaking students and professionals in Sydney.
十月 20, 2007 – 12:15 am
1. Introduction
Language shift and maintenance are often the outcome of interplay of a variety of factors. “These factors can be grouped as follows: economic changes, status, demography, and institutional support (Mesthrie et al, 2006, p. 255).” This study aims to analyse the reasons of linguistic changes of Chinese-speaking students and professionals in [...]
Media and Democracy
十月 20, 2007 – 12:03 am
At the essence of democracy is that everyone’s voice can be heard and everyone can hear other people’s voice. Ideally the media should be able to represent voices of all sides, but the concentration of media ownership makes it unlikely to happen. It could help promote democracy but could also weaken it if not used [...]
An identity analysis of “I have a dream.”
十月 19, 2007 – 11:17 pm
I will analyse a famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. titled “I have a dream.” The speech was delivered by King in 1963, when African Americans were seriously discriminated in the U.S., to a crowd of protestors fighting for equal human rights in Washington D.C. This speech prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act [...]
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