English Questions and Answers

What are some of the different characteristics of "spoken English" in countries outside of Great Britain and the U.S.? thank you

What does "strategic location" mean? As in, "India has a strategic location, as it has many sea routes?"

What are some instances of recent changes in the English language? would like the specific information in regards to the english language. thank you

According to Richards and Rodgers, Grammar Translation "is a method for there is no theory." How accurate is this statement under the perspective of modern scholarship?

Why the English language is important? I need to write an essay.

How do I distinguish the difference between literal and technical meanings of words? I get confused when I have to identify literal, technical, or even connotative usages.

Why should English as a language be studied? Why should we learn English?I want a simple introduction.

How could I write a 300-word essay about the English language for a class assignment?

What is a good team split for the negative team in the debate topic "That we should rock the boat"?

Which one is true about Dialect? 1. Dialect is an uncomplicated version of standard english. 2. All native speaker of english speak a dialect of english 3. East and southern (US.) people speak different dialect of english 4. Use of dialect depend of individuals level of education.

What are some examples of active and passive sentences?

In The Namesake, what were the generational differences that Gogol faced with his birthday party, food, and name?

Is English really a global language?Discuss and justify your answer with examples

Explain system reference testing and elaborate its different types.

Give me a sentence written in Early Old, Old, Early Modern and Modern English and find the differences between them.

How can I improve my English? My English is too much weak. I want to improve it. Please let me know about the elements that can improve my English?

How would you describe the way you write? EXAMPLE: Do you take your time and usually turn in a polished final product or do you wait until the last minute to start writing and then run out of time?

Please explain and summarize the following text: The importance of science fiction (SF) in our time is on the increase. First, there are strong indications that its popularity in the leading industrial nations (United States, USSR, United Kingdom, Japan) has risen sharply over the last 100 years, despite all the local and short-range fluctuations. SF has particularly affected such key strata or groups of modern society as college graduates, young writers, and the avant-garde of general readers appreciative of new sets of values. This is a significant cultural effect which goes beyond any merely quantitative census. Second, if one takes as the minimal generic difference of SF the presence of a narrative novum (the dramatis personae and/or their context) significantly different from what is the norm in "naturalistic" or empiricist fiction, it will be found that SF has an interesting and close kinship with other literary subgenres that flourished at different times and places of literary history: the classical and medieval "fortunate island" story, the "fabulous voyage" story from antiquity on, the Renaissance and Baroque "utopia" and "planetary novel," the Enlightenment "state [political] novel," the modern "anticipation" and "anti-utopia." Moreover, although SF shares with myth, fantasy, fairy tale, and pastoral an opposition to naturalistic or empiricist literary genres, it differs very significantly in approach and social function from such adjoining non-naturalistic or metaempirical genres. Both these complementary aspects, the sociological and the methodological, are being vigorously debated by writers and critics in several countries, evidence of lively interest in a genre that should undergo scholarly discussion too. In this chapter, I will argue for an understanding of SF as the literature of cognitive estrangement. This definition seems to possess the unique advantage of rendering justice to a literary tradition which is coherent through the ages and within itself, yet distinct from nonfictional utopianism, from naturalistic literature, and from other non-naturalistic fiction. It thus makes it possible to lay the basis for a coherent poetics of SF.

Can you explain and summarize the. following text, please? 1.2. I want to begin by postulating a spectrum or spread of literary subject matter which extends from the ideal extreme of exact recreation of the author's empirical environment [1] to exclusive interest in a strange newness, a novum. From the 18th to the 20th centuries, the literary mainstream of our civilisation has been nearer to the first of these two extremes. However, at the beginnings of a literature, the concern with a domestication of the amazing is very strong. Early tale-tellers relate amazing voyages into the next valley, where they found dog-headed people, also good rock salt which could be stolen or at the worst bartered for. Their stories are a syncretic travelogue and voyage imaginaire, daydream and intelligence report. This implies a curiosity about the unknown beyond the next mountain range (sea, ocean, solar system), where the thrill of knowledge joined the thrill of adventure. From Iambulus and Euhemerus through the classical utopia to Verne's island of Captain Nemo and Wells's island of Dr. Moreau, an island in the far-off ocean is the paradigm of the aesthetically most satisfying goal of the SF voyage. This is particularly true if we subsume under this the planetary island in the aether ocean—usually the Moon—which we encounter from Lucian through Cyrano to Swift's mini-Moon of Laputa, and on into the nineteenth century. Yet the parallel paradigm of the valley, "over the range" (the subtitle of Butler's SF novel Erewhon), which shuts it in as a wall, is perhaps as revealing. It recurs almost as frequently, from the earliest folktales about the sparkling valley of Terrestrial Paradise and the dark valley of the Dead, both already in Gilgamesh. Eden is the mythological localization of utopian longing, just as Wells's valley in "The Country of the Blind" is still within the liberating tradition which contends that the world is not necessarily the way our present empirical valley happens to be, and that whoever thinks his valley is the world is blind. Whether island or valley, whether in space or (from the industrial and bourgeois revolutions on) in time, the new framework is correlative to the new inhabitants. The aliens—utopians, monsters, or simply differing strangers—are a mirror to man just as the differing country is a mirror for his world. But the mirror is not only a reflecting one, it is also a transforming one, virgin womb and alchemical dynamo: the mirror is a crucible. Thus it is not only the basic human and humanizing curiosity that gives birth to SF. Beyond an indirect inquisitiveness, which makes for a semantic game without clear referent, this genre has always been wedded to a hope of finding in the unknown the ideal environment, tribe, state, intelligence, or other aspect of the Supreme Good (or to a fear of and revulsion from its contrary). At all events, the possibility of other strange, covariant coordinate systems and semantic fields is assumed.

Is texting creative, or is it damaging the English language?

Please explain and summarize the following text: After such delimitations, it is perhaps possible at least to indicate some differentiations within the concept of "cognitiveness" or "cognition." As used here, this term implies not only a reflecting of but also on reality. It implies a creative approach tending toward a dynamic transformation rather than toward a static mirroring of the author's environment. Such typical SF methodology—from Lucian, More, Rabelais, Cyrano, and Swift to Wells, London, Zamyatin, and writers of the last decades—is a critical one, often satirical, combining a belief in the potentialities of reason with methodical doubt in the most significant cases. The kinship of this cognitive critique with the philosophical fundaments of modern science is evident.

My question is, what is a metaphor I can use with birds to represent jealousy? I have a project which I need to write a poem with a metaphor. My poem is about two birds and how one was jealous of their sibling. So my question is, what is a metaphor I can use with birds to represent jealousy. I bought yesterday, a BIRD HOUSE and 2 different BIRDS , a litle nest and a pot. I'd also like for one bird to be green, (green with envy) and the other red, (red with love) but these are just ideas WHAT CAN MY METAPHOR BE? Thanks in advance for the help.

What languages have most influenced English in the following fields of human activities:government,law,music,medicine and religion? Give specific examples.

Can English be considered as a killer language? Please help me write it for exam. Can English be considered as a killer language?

Please suggest how to learn English the best way possible?

Looking for someone to practice English i m yassine i live in PA i m looking for friend to practice my english

Can you explain and summarize the text, please? 1.3. The approach to the imagined locality, or localized daydream, practiced by the genre of SF is a supposedly factual one. Columbus's (technically or genologically nonfictional) letter on the Eden he glimpsed beyond the Orinoco mouth, and Swift's (technically nonfactual) voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubbdrib, Luggnagg, "and Japan" represent two extremes in the constant intermingle of imaginary and empirical possibilities. Thus SF takes off from a fiction ("literary") hypothesis and develops it with totalizing ("scientific") rigor—the specific difference between Columbus and Swift is smaller than their generic proximity. The effect of such factual reporting of fictions is one of confronting a set normative system—a Ptolemaic-type closed world picture—with a point of view or look implying a new set of norms; in literary theory this is known as the attitude of estrangement. This concept was first developed on non-naturalistic texts by the Russian Formalists ("ostranenie," Viktor Shklyovsky) and most successfully underpinned by an anthropological and historical approach in the work of Bertolt Brecht, who wanted to write "plays for a scientific age." While working on a play about the prototypical scientist, Galileo, he defined this attitude ("Verfremdungseffekt") in his Short Organon for the Theatre: "A representation which estranges is one which allows us to recognize its subject, but at the same time makes it seem unfamiliar." And further: for somebody to see all normal happenings in a dubious light, "he would need to develop that detached eye with which the great Galileo observed a swinging chandelier. He was amazed by that pendulum motion as if he had not expected it and could not understand its occurring, and this enabled him to come at the rules by which it was governed." Thus, the look of estrangement is both cognitive and creative; and as Brecht goes on to say, "one cannot simply exclaim that such an attitude pertains to science, but not to art. Why should not art, in its own way, try to serve the great social task of mastering Life?" [2] (Later, Brecht would note that it might be time to stop speaking in terms of masters and servants altogether.) In SF the attitude of estrangement—used by Brecht in a different way, within a still predominantly "realistic" context—has grown into the formal framework of the genre.

What goals are you setting for yourself as we move into the last half of our course together? has to be in essay form.

What is "success"?

Is there occasion for spelling reform with American English? irregular spelling, the great vowel shift, phonetics, use of consonants have many experts in accord about the need for spelling reforms. However, the amount of borrowed words from other countries may make this impossible. I would like to know what implications these irregularities present for possible spelling reforms -- I would also like to know your opinion in the arguments for and against spelling reform. Thank you

Can you suggest a a good way for learning the American English language perfectly?

What are modal verbs, adjective clauses, and passive/active sentences?

Discuss the influence of French on the growth of English vocabulary and briefly refer to the political and social causes,which led to this development answer in detail

What does express mean?

Are the recent changes in the English language considered to be internal or external changes? This question has to do with the fact that many changes have taken place in our language, particularly with the boom in technology advancement.

How can we encourage lanquage change (in the English language)? Currently studying the ORIGINS of English. This question was brought up in a discussion, and I was not satisfied with the answer.

Hi, how can I improve my English? I am not very good at writing and speaking and reading. I am interested in learning English but when I want to read a text or story because there are many new vocabularies I become tired. How can I improve my reading and speaking and writing? Is there any text or story that I can read continuously? Id like to be very good at english and will be able to teach Enlglish too. please help me.

How to make these fragments into complete sentences? When Jermaine told his boss that he would be taking paternity leave. Because Jermaine is such a supportive husband. Before Jermaine was married. Hoping for a baby girl.

I need help determining what is the best topic for researching about the culture of the English speaking world?

What are the common problems in words usage?

How has the Latin language influenced the modern English language?

Sentence transformation. How can I make this sentence simpler? United we stand; divided we fall.

During the era of Elizabethan how was the society?

Choose the appositive or appositive phrase in the sentence. If the sentence has no appositive or appositive phrase, choose none. "Some of them say that Nelson, who is himself a sculptor, made a bad choice this time."

What are the job opportunities for studying English Language and Linguistics? More Info about the jobs for English Language course in Linguistics.

What is the definition of "Unprejodicial"? Use it in a sentence please. I searched all over the internet without any results but my teacher insists it is a real word. Please explain the meaning of this word.

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