The essay Imaginary Homelands describes the plight of the writers in the Diaspora as they attempt to reconnect with their homelands.
According to the Cambridge dictionary, the meaning of inflection in grammar is "a change in or addition to the form of a word that shows a change in the way it is used in sentences".
Nord's model of translation has been in existence because of the urgent need to introduce a universal theoretical framework that would enable translators to understand the functional elements presented in the content and the structure [...]
Toni Morrison's attitude towards the statist language as the dead one presents her vision of higher politics and expresses an idea that language is degraded because of political censorship.
To improve my English language skills, I will need to watch movies and read books in English and allot enough time for writing and speaking practice.
During his lifetime, Martin Luther King Junior had the privilege of giving several speeches whose main theme in almost all was on the freedom of the black Americans.'I have a dream' was among the many [...]
The English taught in my school is much different than the English used day to day in the English speaking world.
Translation expresses that human beings have the ability to understand the facts and significance of the mind of the people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest, and the culture [...]
I never did my homework and it became so hard for me to catch up with the rest in class. This was the time when I remembered the words of my grandmother "only fools rush [...]
In English and Spanish, there are many pragmatic similarities, which consist in the origin of words. The main differences are some letters of the Spanish language that are missing in English.
On the other hand, the English language being spoken by the people living in the British Commonwealth countries is what is referred to us as British English. One point in which the British and American [...]
In a learning environment, communicating with other students and the tutor in the language studied is crucial for fully comprehending the subject and consistently improving the mastery of the language.
This study shows that morphemes as trends of phonemes may not be a valid point of view because of the role of the phoneme in language.
This is because learning the second language involves learning new things or aspects about the language. The third and last phase is a product of first and second language learning.
The given approach is the manifestation of the fact that Descriptive Translation allows to approach the Translation Studies from an empirical perspective.
The result of the process of conventionalization is the total loss of connections with the source language according to the perception of the community of the word borrowers.
He has full control of the direction of the speech and strong mastery of the subject. The last story narrated by Steve is on the sensitive topic of death.
Moral lessons in the past and present are presented in humorous ways most of the time in order to lessen the seriousness of the event but still make it memorable to the people who witnessed [...]
One of the benefits of studying phonetics is that it shows the difference between languages through the different sounds that the languages in question have.
The main objectives of a writer when writing a speech is to engage the attention of the audience, use a language that is easy to understand, and present ideas in a way that makes them [...]
While it is true that there are numerous study areas for a student to become proficient in, having a good command of a foreign language enhances the overall learning capacity and may even improve your [...]
Female characters in Beowulf are very important, as they help to understand of the entire poem and also the culture of the people in ancient times.
In non-rhotic English, the word would be pronounced with an 'r' between the two sentences. The sound 'r' would therefore be acting as a linking word.
However, it is a hard job to learn the language and use it in a proper way i.e.to achieve the objectives sought at the beginning of the learning as the language is not a good [...]
The paper finds out that code switching is more complicated than sometimes thought to only involve loaning and borrowing of words from one language to another, explained by the fact that code switching involves psychological, [...]
The following are some of the ways through which a child's parent or caregiver can promote language development pertaining to the stage of development.
This essay involves a discussion on the main components of language learning and teaching within the sheltered approach of language acquisition which involves the incorporation of content and language while dealing with the learners of [...]
The idea was that if it became clear to the whites that the black community was ready to contribute to national and global development, the barriers of social inequity and racial injustice would gradually diminish.
The girl will understand the smile to mean the German visitor is interested in the girl. Noam Chomsky explains that the secret to the innate language is syntax.
The first argument in favor of learning a second language is the fact that the development of cognitive abilities in the learning process helps maintain mental health.
The purpose of this presentation is to explain why phonology is important in human communication. It is not enough to give definitions and examples.
Indeed, given the fact that a range of images and icons have gained the status of international elements of the graphic lingua franca, such as the pictograms used in the digital setting to signify the [...]
He notes how crucial it is to keep in mind the following factors before commencing to read: the type of the assignment, the writer's goals and interests, the strategies analyzed in the class, and the [...]
The idiom A piece of Cake is used commonly in speech and literature in the modern world. Due to this fact therefore, the phrase has found a lot of application in the speech and English [...]
English language is one of the most widely used languages in the whole world in spite of the fact that there are many languages.
The dimensions of variations in the sociolinguistic paradigm includes the adoption of theoretical aspects such as the concept of function, stylistic and social meaning, variation and linguistic change, bi-directional relations between the synchronic and the [...]
In this essay, as well as in all of her essays from the collection titled "Sexism and Language," Alleen Pace Nilsen holds the view that the feminine eponyms identify a woman with her body, while [...]
A group of words or a phrase that has been used to refer to the same object or concept is called a semantic field or a semantic domain, and gives meaning to a word in [...]
The influence of the universal language, the idea spread of which began in the 60s of the previous century, is difficult to overestimate.
In most cases, orthography in English provides to all phoneme of the speech, no less than a single regular, apparent and steady symbolization.
The typography used in a newspaper represents a sample of the state of the medium. 7There is however, a strong tendency to ensure the legibility of the style and the readability of the writing, at [...]
It is impossible to take all the things when leaving to the strange culture, but it is possible to have native language and use it whenever one wants.
As it was implied in the introduction, Connected, but Alone tackles the main issue of post-industrial modernity in the West the fact that the passage of time seems to have a strongly detrimental effect on [...]
She calls the one her mother uses as broken English, and however, when interacting with people in her personal life, Amy uses a more sophisticated version of the English language.
It is, therefore, true to say that the word 'will' is used to denote a future tense in English. In addition to this, the word 'will' still fails to be a tense marker from other [...]
The present paper traces the change of the meaning of the word and touches upon the peculiarity of the use of the word which was not widespread in times of Chaucer and Shakespeare, but has [...]
Hence, the first oddity associated with English is the fact that there is no language remotely similar to English a person might partially understand because of their English fluency.
Let us have a closer look at the parts of the speech namely the introduction, the main body consisting of three stories from Steve Jobs' life and the conclusion which is rather an appeal to [...]
In observational data, the researcher tracked the word 'bro' usage in 24 hours, areas of use, and the people addressed using the word.
A major function of language is that the symbols are subjective. There are various areas of study that will allow one to get the right interpretation of language and logic.
Apart from this type of classification, we also have philosophy of history "which is the theory aspect of the discipline of academic history, and deals with questions such as the nature of historical evidence, the [...]
The author provides an example of her visit to a dentist as a child, which inspired Anzaldua to think about culture and its connection to the mother tongue. Anzaldua's work provides an understanding of the [...]
The language that children produce cannot be traced to others as a source and this is a further testament to the fact that language acquisition is an innate phenomenon.
English dispersed to the rest of the world becoming a leading language of international communication due to the extensive influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
The park is full of various mountains and canyons that seem to form waves in the landscape and turn it into the illimitable ocean of green plants and brown rocks.[METAPHOR] Except for that, when driving [...]
Since the result is crucial in teaching, an educator is to be able to measure the performance of the learners, their improvements, strengths and weaknesses and this is where testing is necessary.
However, to discuss the aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism, it is necessary to focus on the factor of the social motivation and psychological peculiarities of the ability to use two or more languages for interactions.
In linguistics, there is a morphological type of analysis within the frames of which the construction of words is evaluated, and the word is discussed in terms of free, bound, root, and affix morphemes.
Hence even if you speak the international language in your office, you need to learn how to speak the local language because you need to learn how to converse in the local language because it [...]
However, the works by Ferdinand de Saussure remain to be the most significant sources which define the nature of structuralism and the development of structural linguistics.
Speaking about the flexibility of language, it is possible to provide numerous examples that evidence the existence of some forms and meanings of the same word.
Origin form is also shown to determine the basic elements; this also traces back the linguistic transmission of one language to another and also in the same sense identifying in other languages its cognates.
Also known as the natural method, the direct method entails a full participation of the students in terms of listening and speaking of the language.
There are those who argue that use of authentic materials in teaching listening is more beneficial both to the learners and to the instructors as compared to the use of scripted materials.
The main focus of the project is to analyse the phonological, structural and lexical features of the American dialect. In terms of the phonological distinctness of General American English, the group found out that the [...]
The use of rhythm in the Declaration of Independence is used with the intention of emphasizing the points the author is making.
The inclusion of morphology and syntax in this context is considered important because the final stages in the translation process require that meaning should not be lost and that the translation should not be far [...]
The Mongolian languages are spoken by about 6 million people who live mainly in three regions: the Republic of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and the region of Lake Baykal in Siberia.
Biopolitics is crucial in the discussion of the relationship between humans and animals because it highlights the power of nature. In the same vein, man and animals have been differentiated by language, one of the [...]
Generalization/Principles/Theories The effect of media on language and culture play a crucial role in the distinction of the American society and also affects it in national terms by comparing the American English and other varieties [...]
The foundation of error-free reading, speaking, and writing is laid during the period of spelling training, which is an important component of overall speech and language development.
Interestingly, in the philosophy of language, colloquialism is sometimes regarded as ordinary, natural language in contrast to the specialized forms used in logic and other areas of philosophy. Curiously, in the majority of instances, jargon [...]
The main idea in writing must be of importance to the writer and audience and also be a sentence that can stand on its own.
Proponents of Deutscher's theory argue that language is not the only factor that calls attention to certain features in a conversation.
The reason behind this is the fact that English has been considered for long as a foreign language in the Expanding Circles and therefore only suitable as an official medium of communication with the native [...]
It is said that the word is derived from the Latin word "illuminare" which means either to enlighten or illuminate. Some people associated the word illuminati to a powerful satanic group or cult that came [...]
This scholar says that misuse of the language is common to both the media presenters and reporters, and the people they bring to the media.
Considering the second interpretation, "our aspiration takes us," it is possible to see the same dismissive attitude to the kind and the amount of work since only the desire matters here.
Though the definitions of certain words and idioms may be different in different countries, the vocabulary words are mostly the same in all the varieties of the language. The comparison of standard and non-standard varieties [...]
As compared to their native English-speaking classmates, bilinguals usually have to put in extra effort and time to cope with the fast pace of the American way of teaching. Some of the students find listening [...]
The written text is performed in the form of an article and is written in the publicist style. In this sentence, the word "he" is anaphoric and refers to the officer.
With the IT breakthrough, the rapid development of the Internet, and most of the people on it all the time, the process of acquiring English language skills is unstoppable.
The main question of the research is "Do students in multilingual groups enjoy group work and role play activities more than students in monolingual groups?" In the modern globalised world people have numerous possibilities for [...]
However, the presenter of a speech genre is free to use accent to express individuality and is capable of mixing genres from diverse spheres.
The process of learning a language also known as language acquisitions is a procedure that begins as soon as a child is born.
Although social media is effective in communication; it is has led to the alteration of the grammatical structures of official languages in many nations.
This individual will not consider any of the languages as foreign regardless of the proportion of the individuals that speak the language.
The conquest resulted in the development of two categories of the English language called the Old English and Middle English. Old English refers to the language used before the Norman Conquest, while the Middle English [...]
Some of the courses that I took included curriculum development and assessment, language reading acquisition and research, teaching in a pluralistic society, and the English linguistic. In these classes, I gathered methods and tactics to [...]
An example of an onset in a syllable is 'r' in the word aread.' In the event that a word is made up of more than one syllable, each individual syllable comprises the normal syllable [...]
Gerry Philipsen, who is commonly referred to as the father of The Speech Codes Theory, did an ethnographic analysis to establish the different meanings that are shared in a culture and he published his findings [...]
Phrases such as 'pain', 'pain in the neck, and 'bingo' are commonly used by American teenagers and prove the notion what Ellis conforms that teenagers' skill over a range of styles and slang jargons indicates [...]
The experimental group that was undergoing delayed oral practice were found to develop better comprehension skills than the rest of the control group.
This paper will discuss the derogatory connotations of the word 'bitch' and the various changes the meaning of this word has undergone over time.
However, I tend to differ with that school of thought and cite the following reasons as to why the future of English remains assured globally: the large numbers of English speakers and learners, the simplicity [...]
The teachers should assist the learners with the good writing skills or patterns while understanding that they are changing writing and thinking patterns also rather than being irritated on the repetition of endless sentences by [...]
Therefore, the grammar of a language is a description of the rules of the language, rules of a kind that human beings are innately disposed to learn.
The main point proposed by the article is that the influx of technology has destroyed the uses of the English language through the introduction of the text message service.
In his speech, Obama was seen to take advantage of the significance of that moment to address the Americans' main concerns.
It is the above-mentioned changes in the international system that caused the rise of the English language, and so some linguists separate one more stage of development of the English language, Late Modern English or [...]
In infinitive clauses, a null auxiliary is also known as 'T' is silent in a sentence since it takes the form of a null spell out.
The purpose of this paper is to examine specific linguistic issues related to the illocutionary level of language in the translation of "A Lesson from Kama Sutra" with the focus on analyzing register, genre, and [...]
To avoid clutters, a writer should avoid unnecessary words, avoid repetition and economize words. Highlighting and removing redundant and unnecessary words and phrases can help one to be a concise writer.
According to Chomsky, pragmatic competence is the awareness of the conditions, relevant manner, and objectives of language use with the help of which communicators are able to relate "intentions and purposes to the linguistic means [...]
Each line in the text is a kind of reflection that has to be evaluated, and the author's death is the only condition under which the work may be considered as worthwhile.
The issue of misinterpretation in language use is tricky because it is likely to have several valid interpretations of one utterance.
To him, hedges are phrases or words that weaken or soften the force in the way of saying a certain idea".
The benefits that results from standardization of a language are numerous but the main issue that follows standardization is who is responsible for standardization of a language.
This improvement is attributed to the fact that learning a new language results in divergent thinking in the person. This paper has demonstrates that learning an additional language can result in the creation of a [...]
In addition to transmitting and storing information, symbols, and subsequently a structured and complex language, participated in cognition, helping to develop the cognitive component of life in society.
In this case the students will be taught predominantly in English, which is the language that the students will be in the process of acquiring.
In cases where the interlocutor is of higher social status, the effect to the informant would be either that of aspiration to illustrate same social status to that of the interlocutor's or one that is [...]
A literal translation does not change the meaning of the text, while a literary translation changes the meaning of the text.
Another aspect in the article relating to the effect of idiolect of the mind is the linguistic distinction of the visual world, such as colors.
In general, the most common difference between Singapore English from various existing English is that there is generally no difference between long and short vowels.
For example: The two boys were fighting; College students fought with the police; The United States fought against Osama bin Laden."Fight" also refers to the act of "opposing threats", "struggling against" dangerous objects, or making [...]
The backward design of curriculum development in the context of second language learning will help eliminate the gap between understanding and learning with the aid of establishing a clear framework of goals that should be [...]
As provided by one of the authors of this hypothesis, Edward Sapir, language shapes the speaker's reality not simply reflects it, that is why people who speak and think in different languages have different perceptions [...]
When addressing an audience, the kind of words used by the addresser is dictated by the age of the addressee. This is because the ability of a child to comprehend certain statements and words depend [...]
Finally, it is critical making sure that the language shows the national identity of the country and complies with the ethnic values and history of the state.
