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    Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a form of a communication model that was developed in order to help interviewer or interrogator make the person they are interviewing or interrogating feel comfortable as well as build rapport between them. It can also tell the interviewer or interrogator if the person may be lying, nervous or scared because of what may happen to them if they give the police any information. Therefore, by using this technique they can get all of the information about an ongoing

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    based on their spoken language. This is not due merely to communication barriers but is discriminating on their ethnicity. We see linguistic profiling when decisions are made based solely in listening to someone’s dialect and stereotyping just by their spoken language. Someone’s ethnicity should not be connected to the language or dialect that they speak. Linguistic profiling is a real discrimination and has been done for many years. Through John Baugh, PhD’s experiences and his own experimentation

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    day. Taxes and economic barriers seem to be like symptoms - from a disease - that fade away, as time goes by. The ability of fast communication between people and places has boosted many companies to expand in other countries. Yet, cultural and linguistic differentiations are the most sustainable features companies need to take under consideration, in a strategic planning of setting up abroad. A firm needs to become progressively more aware of the foreign cultures when aiming in a successful future

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    Cultural Linguistic Appropriate Services standard number two applies to my employer because it utilizes education and training to ensure employees comprehend importance of cultural care. The organization allocates funds toward continuing education. For example, our facility uses a program called HealthStream; hence, a computer based program that allows medical staff to keep current on policies through instructive material (Premier Health, 2013). Also, my employer has a diversity office that provides

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    This week I reviewed a self-assessment checklist titled, Promoting Cultural & Linguistic Competency. The checklist included 49 questions that covered everything from the classrooms physical environment to communication styles and values and attitudes. “I display pictures, posters and other materials that reflect the cultures and ethnic backgrounds of children and families served in my earl childhood program or setting.” When setting up your early childhood classroom there are several ways in which

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    Each year abundance languages vanished, in order to some groups reckon that it is not crucial. They consider the human speech as a shackle, in this manner life spare would be effortless in lack of it. On the other side of the controversy, the linguistic communication is attended as a vital part of the society. This essay is aimed at seeking the pro and con of both discussions, although I would prefer to go with the latter notion. One of the incredible discrimination between the mankind and the animals

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    10326488 Final Project The following report focuses on the development of a linguistic profile for one of the many linguistic populations residing in Southern California. For the purpose of this analysis, the Spanish linguistic has been chosen. The report compromises of four parts: the first consists of surveys and statistics, the second includes an analysis of the history of immigration, the third is an analysis of the linguistic features while the fourth is an assessment of the language use and language

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    The Study of Linguistics Language changes with history and time. Our perception of words changes. Everything changes, from cooking with a fire to cooking with a microwave. Some examples of the ways language changes are through accents, books, slang, influential people, and historical events. Accents show development of culture over time, maybe through a historical event, such as a new country being found. The people living there might adopt the culture of the founders. Language also changes

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    and there has been much discussion on the issue of whether English users are the victims of linguistic imperialism. Historically, English was regarded as a lingua franca and it has the same function nowadays (Kachru, 1985, cited in Jenkins, 2014). In addition, linguistic imperialism is related to English in this essay. Although English users could profit from the spread of English and ‘English linguistic imperialism’ indeed brings some advantages, some others still hold the view that English users

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    Through looking at patterns of social interaction of different languages it is easy to predict the linguistic results of language contact. This could be seen through multilingualism which is a result of language contact between multiple different languages. Multilingualism can create diglossia which helps display the multilingualism of a country or community and helps show it is useful for predicting the results of language contact. Code switching in which people switch from one language to another

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