Language Policy in Pakistan Masooma Kazmi Introduction Pakistan is a multilingual and multiethnic country with six major and over 57 small languages. However, the languages of the domains of power—government, corporate sector, media, and education etc.—are Urdu and English (Rahman 1996). Urdu, which is spoken by just 7% of the population, is the national language, while English is the official language. The small languages are under tremendous pressure, some of which have become extinct, while
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underscore the importance of avoiding widespread pitfalls of deception detection and challenging prevailing assumptions concerning strategies for catching liars. The promise and limitations of each of non-verbal/body language, facial, verbal/linguistic, and physiological channels in detecting deception are discussed. In observing the absence of a single cue or behavioural channel that consistently reveals deception, a holistic approach with concurrent attention to multiple channels of a target’s
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March 2006 Volume 9, Number 4 Contents | TESL-EJ Top The English Teacher as Facilitator and Authority Shaun O'Dwyer David English House, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan School of Philosophy, University of New South Wales Abstract Over the past eighty years or so, some education theorists have repudiated the notion that it is the teacher's role to act as an authority in the classroom, transmitting knowledge to students "who do not know." In English as a second or foreign language education, a notion
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exploited the greater part of the underdeveloped nations meanwhile implanting people's perception of “color” or race as synonymous with inferiority. Race has been stripped of its scientific evidence and used as a socio-biological category to assign human worth and status. White being the paradigm,
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Information, Operations, and Management Sciences Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University {aghose,panos,arun}@stern.nyu.edu Abstract Deriving the polarity and strength of opinions is an important research topic, attracting significant attention over the last few years. In this work, to measure the strength and polarity of an opinion, we consider the economic context in which the opinion is evaluated, instead of using human annotators or linguistic resources. We rely on the fact that
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From the era of a combusting and all-encompassing science of philosophy to a period of intellectual break-ups, the world has witnessed the sharp emergence of various disciplines that have shaped the direction and focus of knowledge. Centuries ago sciences that today form the salient block of social science had to create a niche for themselves and thus became an entity of their own. However, this so called academic and intellectual independence from the clutches of philosophy was not achieved by mere
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philosophy, it was 1000’s of years before it was known to be a formal discipline. It evolved from “ideas” of early philosophers into a science of its own. Centuries ago Western Philosophers began the formation of psychology as a branch of philosophy, but explored the subject in a more rationale scientific way throughout the years. Just as it took centuries for the science of psychology to implore, it was and still is, developing into the 19th century. Beginnings of Psychology Wilhelm Maximilian
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at the Historical World History Museum in Washington, D.C. I have made a huge impact that people seemed to ignore. I was a great philosopher and the first to hand write the book of physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology, I have considered much ahead of my time. Being placed in this museum will ensure that my enormous legacy lives on and I will get the respect I truly deserve. I grew up in a city in Greece in
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Multi Intelligence Humans are multi intelligent beings. Consequently, intelligence testing simply cannot deliver a truthful illustration of an individual’s intelligence level, rather the testing only measure two forms intelligence that are linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences according to Howard Gardner (Smith, 2008). Yet, Howard Gardner believes that human being contain other intelligence other than linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences. The human being intelligence is
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