Languages of Papua New Guinea

coverage. Amplification and distortion is essential to the creation of a moral panic, this is done by the media ‘over reporting’. A key example of this is the Mods and Rockers on Brighton beach in 1964. In Cohen’s theory he highlights the emotive language used with regular use of phrases ‘riot’, ‘orgy of destruction’, ‘battle’, ‘attack’ and ‘screaming mob’. Leaving the reader/viewer of this reporting with an image of a harassed town and innocent holiday makers fleeing to escape folk devils. By…

immigration centre until they are granted with a visa or removed from the country In 2001, Australia received negative and sometimes crudely pejorative asylum news within the government, media and other public debates. In The Sydney Morning Herald, an article on the debate over asylum seekers had been reported as blurred by rhetoric and language of fear. The Refugee Council of Australia expressed concern that the media…

Cognitive: Disorientation, memory loss, mental confusion, dementia o Ex. “I have trouble falling down” • Muscular: Slow body movement, jerking muscle spasms, coordination impairment o Ex. balance problems • Other: Blurred vision, insomnia, loss of language skills (production + comprehension), apathy • 40% of patients presented with cognitive phenotypes, 40% present with muscular, 20% a combination of both (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation) • Many of the phenotypes…

There has been an ongoing debate on whether thought or language comes first. Universalist believe that all thoughts are thinkable and that thought comes before language, while Relativists believe that some thoughts are unthinkable and that language comes before thought. While this debate has been going on for longer than most people can remember, this debate is important because it will potentially play a role in how thought and language is looked at in the future. Both universalists and…

The first Anthropology course I took at Southern with Dr. Daniel Bass dealt with living cultures. The work we got to learn about with the tribes of Papua, New Guinea was so interesting. One of the things that I remember was how men had sex with younger males and how it was perceived as completely normal by these people. There was no taboo like in Western Culture. In fact they saw this as positive aspect of…

Nethery and Holman showed this through Germany’s principle of regular oversight to stop “inevitable systemic abuses of power” and the European ‘Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of Prisoners’. Using an ABC news article stating the murder of an asylum seeker by the hand of an employee, the author selectively left out opposing arguments that implied that the death was the result of self-defence in a violent protest (Nethery and Holman, 2016, p. 1028).…

but different languages. Actually, most pidgins and creoles are based on European languages, mostly on English, Spanish and French. Also, in Egypt and Arab countries there are some groups of people whom spoke mixed of two languages “Pidgin” or more than two languages “creoles”. Pidgins often serve as the means of communication between two language groups. Definition of Creole: The English term creoles comes from a French word called "créole”. Creole is a pidgin…

Thursday Island, a small island in the Torres Strait is located 2,640km north west of Brisbane, 804km north of Cairns, 141km south west of Papua New Guinea, 35km north west of Cape York. Its area is about 4.5 square km and is legally part of Queensland. Locally known as “TI”, or the Torres Strait Islander name is Waiben, means ‘dry place’ due to the geological of the island it has lack of fresh water; island gets its water supply from a dam in Horn Island. TI has a tropical humidity and has two…

Languages have been vanishing from different regions. An endangered language is a language that is most likely to become extinct in the future. Most of the languages that have been disappearing are being replaced by other popular languages that are being widely used in nations, such as Spanish in Mexico and English in the United States. Many languages today have only one native speaker still living, and once the person’s death arrives, it will also be the death of the language. It will no longer…

Megan Washington first confessed to having a speech impairment in 2014 at a TedX conference in Sydney. She had grown up with her parents and sister, living in Papua New Guinea since her birth in 1986. At the age of 10 Washington moved to Brisbane with her family where she spent most of her highschool years. Within this period of her life Megan Washington developed a stutter, which she hid from the world as she followed her dreams to become a world known singer. Her speech is being presented at a…