Ragtime Summary Arakin

Give a summary of the text (p. Make up and act out dialogues between: 1. Mother and Father before the tea. Mother and Sarah after the visit of the Negro pianist. Father and Mother's Younger Brother about the pieces the pianist had played.

. formation to give a contrastive view of the issue. The following methods were applied in the research: 1.

Descriptive analysis; 2. Historical-philological analysis; 3. Comparative analysis. This work consists of introduction, one chapter, conclusion, list of references and appendixes. The introduction covers topicality, theoretical base of research, as well as, methods of research and the structure of the work. In the 1st chapter we are concerned with linguistic situation in Old English and Medieval period. The conclusion colligates the main propositions and ultimate results of the research.

The research is founded on fundamental works of well-known scholars such as A.C. Baugh [1978], D. Crystal [1995, 1997]; Russian scientists: V.D Arakin [1985], A.A. Rastorgueva [1997], B.A. Ilyish [1973] and many others. LINGUISTIC SITUATION IN OLD ENGLISH AND MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD 1.1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTHARK The earliest form of German writing is commonly believed to be connected to the early Germanic runes. Old English was first written in the runic alphabet which was called FUTHARK.

It was named after the first six letters. The reason for the unique sequences of characters in the futhark is unknown. It is proposed that this sequence was the result of some mnemonic device which is no longer retrievable, but which may have left some slight echo in the runic poems preserved in the medieval manuscripts [38]. The Old Germanic runic alphabet consisted of.

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