Systemic Functional Linguistics Model
As systemic functionalists argue, ‘spoken grammars have uniquely special qualities that distinguish them from written ones’. This means that the language we use in speaking is different from the one we use in writing. Written language is more strict and formal; it is produced with...
Meaning of a Sentence
It is quite important to note that prefix is added to the beginning of a word, a suffix at the end, an infix is inserted into other morphemes and circumfix are attached to another morpheme. The use of a prefix or a suffix is part...
Second Language Acquisition Theories
This limits the acquiring of the new words or vocabularies and the sounds of those words. Activities also relate or contribute a lot to problems related to second language acquisition as used by new learners where a unique part is to be played to enhance...
Multilingualism and Monolingualism
The author of the paper states that in most parts of the world, communities use more than one language, and the phenomenon is called bilingualism or multilingualism. Widespread multilingualism is a consequence of language contact. Languages that come into contact can sway each other in...
The Role of Phonology in Language on the Analysis of the Auditory
It is widely accepted that both phonetics and phonology deal with the study of the sound system and sound properties of the Target Language. The question that arises here is how phonology differs from phonetics. Indeed whereas phonetics is exclusively centred on the study of...
Speech-Act Theory, Dialogical Theory and Democracy
There is an act of saying something and what one does while saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect the audience. For example, the sentence This is a pigsty might be used non-literally to state that a certain...
Arguments about the critical period hypothesis
Bley-Vroman, R. (1988). The fundamental character of foreign language learning. In W. Rutherford &M. Sharwood Smith (Eds.), Grammar and second language teaching: A book of readings (pp.19-30).
In this article the author talks about ten different characteristics of adults who try to learn a second...
How to Use the Way we Communicate to Change the Society
As for teaching your children more than one language, many child education experts agree that exposing little children to several languages is a great advantage; and the earlier he is introduced to a multilingual environment, the better the results will be. Anybody, even those without...
Childrens Learning and Literacy Difficulties
As different writers have put forth several arguments on the impact of atypical language development on children’s literacy and language learning, the aim of this study is to examine their arguments, and to present and critique their methods and outcomes. A number of language theorists...
Communicative Discourse Depends on the Context
Kate and Jackie play the role of interviewer and interviewee. In such roles, the interviewer always has an upper hand. This means that Kate preference is given to Kate since it is always Kate who directs, modifies and controls the conversation. Jackie’s role is secondary,...
Non-verbal communication
A look at the non behavior communication shows that facial expressions form a large part of non verbal communication. They include expressions for happiness, sadness, fear, and anger. Coming to gestures, which is the deliberate movements and signals by one like waving, use of fingers...
Main Findings in Differences in Native Arabic Speakers and English Speakers
The evidence for lateralized perception demonstrated by right-ear preference during the language test in the language that was native for the participants is in accordance with the general evidence for the greater superiority of the left hemisphere in processing meaningful linguistic stimuli such as Price...
Orientalism Concept by Edward Said
The creation of Israel in the aftermath of WWII provided the US with an opportunity to get an enduring foothold in the Arab region. While the legitimacy of the state of Israel is not universally accepted by the international community, at least on a practical basis...
Relationship of Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies
Communication is a component of culture. Study of culture is a form of communication. And media are avenues and tools of communication and culture. While people/audience participates in communication and culture. The production, processing and dissemination, reception, and the study of culture and culture products are...
Literacy Across Languages and Cultures
This research tells that in the English language, there is evidence of differences in the stressing of syllables. Research into this language has highlighted that some words have their syllables stressed in the beginning, others in the center while others; the last syllable is the...
Loanwords in English - the Rationale for Borrowing
One class of loanwords consists of the multitude plethora of names of living things in nature i.e. the various animals, plants and their environments. A careful listening to the mentioning of names of animals on the National Geographic channel, for instance, would verify the frequent...
Discourse Analysis and the Interpretation of Literary Narrative
Thus, in order to ensure the coherence of the text, it is important that the sentences of the narrative must be formally linked or cohesive. It is a quality that the sentences of the story by Anthony achieve. “Sona quickly slipped outside. Fear dazed him...
Chugen and Seibo in Japanese Culture
The paper tells that Chugen is an example of a gift-giving occasion dictated by the calendar. This occurs at during midsummer and Japan becomes engrossed in buying, giving and receiving gifts. The occasion is concerned with the special care and sacrifice to the dead. Seibo,...
Business Challenge of Warwickshire Cricket Club
According to news feed, the Warwickshire County Cricket Club has appointed Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest, VCCPas its retained marketing and advertising agency to oversee the imminent projects which include advertising the forthcoming year’s major international fixtures comprising of a test match against South-Africa and a...
E-Dictionary and Its Effect on the Vocabulary Achievements of Students
The learner can learn a language with native-speaker models. This software follows the curriculum for each level. The language curriculum is based on the need and requirements of the students. It offers effective tools for assessments. The timely and effective assessments give the learner the...
Intercultural Communication Through Sports Diplomacy
On the other hand, using sport in changing public relations or political relations is a means through which nation brand themselves. For instance, the 2014 Olympics games in Russia were overshadowed by Vladimir Putin’s passing of anti-gay laws before the games kicked off (Persson &...
All Literary Practices Contain Creative Elements
In one of Ford’s earliest commercials for their Escape Hybrid, a conceptual metaphor is invoked as Kermit the Frog works to capitalize on the attitudes and beliefs of parents concerned about the quality of life in their children’s future as well as those who feel...
Umberto Eco and Hyper-Reality Concept in Disneyland and Las Vegas
Baudrillard (1983) puts it a little differently but supports Eco’s contention. He argues that the reason American like simulations is because they are perpetually trapped in the present. For Baudrillard, it is not just the monuments which are reproduced to make them a part of...
The kurdish language
On the other hand, the Dimili refer to the Badinadi speakers and their dialect as Xerewere (Boulden, 2008).
The Kurdish grammar consists of numerous unusual features. For example, the Kurmanji dialect uses a sentence structure where the first part of the sentence is the subject which...
Post Modernism and Globalization
For societies, freer trade, greater respect for individuals and communities and the springing of a global culture that has greater respect for human rights based on western ideologies as noted by Lipietz (1996). Conversely, the alternative side of globalization has mainly included the weakening and...
The Artistic Designs
From a geographic perspective, the existence of different languages is due to their formation under environmental influences. This gives a reason as to why different cultures dress differently just as they speak differently. Language as a form of communication has both recipient and sender. Therefore,...
A Particular Point of View in Spoken and Written Texts
Indeed young children learn basic referencing rules through looking, pointing, listening and repeating in a face-to-face context and they find it hard to think or talk about things which are not in the immediate field of vision. This kind of extra assistance is not available...
Importance of Bilingual Education
The Hispanic population has grown rapidly over the last four decades and is currently the largest minority ethnic group in the U. Conservative estimates predicts that by the year 2040, less than half of all school-age students will be non-Hispanic White (Hernández, 2004) and over...
Goals of the Feminist Movement Realized in Twentieth Century Europe
Feminism, as a separate branch of the socialist movement, was mainly aimed at securing social, political and cultural equality of women with their male counterparts. Though Europe was one of the major domains of cultural and intellectual movements but the condition of women was also...
Relationship between Text and Image, Representation and Audience
When we are apprehensive, we shoot. Anyhow when we are nostalgic, we take pictures. All photos are memento mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Photos stun in so far as they show something novel. Sadly, the bet continues getting raised somewhat through the very multiplication of such pictures of loathsomeness. One's...
Applied Linguistics In Teaching EFL
Strevens also speaks along similar lines when he argues that ‘AL is a technology that makes abstract ideas and research findings accessible and relevant to the real world; it mediates between theory and practice’. This role of mediation played by AL between theory and practice...
Psychological Disorders Impeding Normal Learning
Psychological disorders like dyspraxia, ADHD, Aspergers/Autism along with sensory impairments like visual impairment, deafness are also identified as significant obstacles to adult learning Dyslexia in adults has been described as a major barrier due to difficulty in processing information which may be linked to deficiencies...
Recommended Techniques in the Primary School
Given that the primary school students who use English as their primary language requires a different teaching-and-learning technique as compared to foreign students who have limited knowledge with the use of the English language, it is highly recommended that the primary school teachers should give...
History of Japanese Penmanship
One of the great devotees of Buddhist traditions was the Japanese prince Shotoku Taishi (574–622). He supported the Buddhist philosophies along with building a number of significant temples. He was the one who reinforced the fame of Shakya, hand copying of sutras, which further brought...
Global Linguistic Phenomenon
The scenario occurs when speakers either intentionally or unwillingly change their medium of communication to a more dominant language which may be more prestigious or more powerful to the extent that parents do not anymore teach their original language to their children. Reasons for the...
Narrative in Film and the Visual Arts
Narratives in film and the visual arts refer to those things that are put together on the stage or in a film that makes the production work. The narrative is about how stories are told and how they unfold. In this regard, every frame and...
Critical Review and Assessment of the Cognitive Linguistics School
The study of cognitive semantics took off in the 1970s, largely as a protest against the objectivist trend of American and English traditions of philosophy (Evans & Green, 2006). The predominant stance taken by theorists of the time belonged to the school of the ‘truth-conditional...