Applied linguistics

From the interactive oral presented by my classmates, I was able to gain a deeper understandings of the philosophy and social structures of the time period in Candide. The value of the enlightenment ideas and the contrast between different social classes were super beneficial and allowed me to further develop the true understanding of the text. The novel, written in the time period of the enlightenment, reflects many aspect of the key ideas about philosophy. The Enlightenment movement…

2 Introduction Alberto Giacometti created artwork that reflected the emotions and turbulent transition from surrealism to contemporary modern art. When one compares the themes of Giacometti’s sculpture to Robert Wallace’s poem, it is possible to clearly identify simple forms have a lot of subtle details. There are many aspects that influenced the artist and the writer to create new things. Firstly, Alberto Giacometti was heavily influenced by the surrealists of the 1920’s and later found his…

Peter Spiro, a poet, makes some very interesting connections between realities of people's lives and the paths that those realities cause them to live in his poem "Cause and effect." I strongly believe the reason behind the making of this Spiro poem is he is trying to get across the idea that realities like having meager income and going to sub par schools can be major contributing factors to why people go to jail and end up wasting their lives. I believe the messages of this poem are every bit…

In my opinion, Frost’s statement about his poetry does accurately reflect his poems as they all contain both a literal and a metaphorical meaning. This can clearly be seen in al of Frost’s poems that I have studied which include, “The Tuft of Flowers”, “Mending Wall”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Out, Out- “, “Spring Pools” and “Aquatinted with the Night”. In all six of these poems a message is conveyed both directly and indirectly. Frost uses everyday, ordinary people, living normal lives as the…

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. “Identity.” PoemHunter.com, PoemHunter, www.poemhunter.com/poems/identity/page-1/524149/. Loss of identity is shown in a unique way in this poem by Thomas Aldrich. His poem entitled "Identity" briefly describes his interpretation of identity after death. An extreme loss for the deceased. The subject of spirituality and its connection to identity is difficult to communicate in writing but as a poet, Aldrich produces profound ideas that are open for interpretation to…

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” (Albert Einstein Quotes) Albert Einstein says that using imagination can take you everywhere meaning that you can become anything or anyone and understand what is going on while you are that person or thing. Fiction activates your imagination and has you connect with the character to better understand what that character is going through. Fiction would then be valuable to historians because it helps them see the emotions of…

Stylistic texture as part of the implicit characterization process is established as a characteristic of the literary text. First, the reader/audience is faced with the question of the way individual sentences of a speech relate to one another. Whether they are connected in a strictly logical way, whether they form a more associative series, they always emphasize the structure of a character’s level of awareness. All significant deviations from the normal frequencies in the areas of syntactic…

In this part of the paper the analysis of the chosen plays by British authors are conducted. The primary focus of the analysis is to find traces of Brecht’s legacy. Arranged according to the plays’ release, Arden’s play is analyzed first. 3.1 Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance by John Arden Perhaps John Arden’s best known play, often regarded as a masterpiece (except at the time of the play’s publication and its initial reviews) was first produced in 1959 in London. Giving the direction for productions…

Bilingualism has recently become a major issue and a valuable one because in comparison with monolingualism it allows people to live between two worlds, two cultures, adopting the specific ways of thinking and feeling of the people they come into contact. To be bilingual involves more than speaking another language than your own, it is all about the inner significance of words apparently similar in two languages but deeply different, this is a major issue analysed by Anna Wierzbicka who strongly…

Defining Bilingualism: Baker (2011) has defined bilingualism is about being able to speak two languages. It is just an ability of a person to speak in two languages and not about competency in either. A bilingual person’s competency may be limited to one language which is his or her dominant language or the person may be competent in both the languages. Grosjean (2010) as quoted by Baker (2011) proposes that bilingualism is not just the knowledge it is rather speaking two languages regularly. A…