Applied linguistics

William Wordsworth once wrote “There neither is, not can be, any essential difference between the language and metrical composition” (147). In his book, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”, Wordsworth argues for a poetry in which the poet puts an emphasis on emotions, rather than intellect, and on resemblance to common life. He uses these ideas about poetry to claim that prose is essentially no different from poetry. However, many readers might find this idea troublesome; certainly short stories differ…

Abeera Ali Khan 1615175 Topics in Asian Literatue. Question no 2. Comment on the depiction of masculinity in Gandaasa. Masculinity is seen in a many different ways, yet the general impression of manliness is that it is the most grounded one out of the male and female. Male and females require each other to offset each other in the parts of richness. Gentility and masculinity are established in the social (one's sex/gender) instead of the organic (one's sex). Societal individuals choose what…

People who can write poems from the heart can affect others to their own heart. Some poems are easy to decipher by their meaning, and some are not as simple. I have now read many works of poetry from wonderful authors, but I have had only a few of them to actually stand out and grab my attention through either key words to remind me of thoughts in the past or imagery terms to give me a crystal clear picture. One poem managed to seriously get me focused because of these elements. This poem is…

The word ‘Reflection’ can mean many things, among these are sending back i.e. the return of light, heat, sound or energy from a surface; a sign or result of something; and serious or careful thought. I have explored many of these different meanings in my visual diary. The Greek philosopher Plato saw all of life as a reflection - we are all in a cave with our back to the fire and the life we live is actually just a shadow of reality dancing on the walls. (https://www.collegeofidaho.edu/academic…

The importance of English is not just in how many people speak it, but in what it’s used for. These years, English has become the most used language in the world. Business companies, High schools, and many other international organisations and associations require English as an important exigency. HEM introduced a list of international training centers for the second year’s students: Calliope, The British Council, Wall Street and British Workshop in Morocco and several language centers in…

Assignment 4 Prefix means to fix before or to fix to the beginning of a word. Prefixes are united with or placed at the beginning of words to alter or modify their meanings or to create entirely new words. A root word or word element from which other words are formed. It is the foundation of the word. The root conveys the central meaning of the word and forms the base to which prefixes and suffixes are attached for word modification. A combining form is a world root to which a vowel has been…

According to Noels et al. (1996), intercultural adaptation has a positive correlation with linguistic confidence, which has a significant effect on L2 proficiency. Masgoret and Ward (2006) also indicate that there is a close relationship between socio-cultural adaptation and proficiency in language. Cross-cultural adaptation is also related to the…

Like the space Derrida speaks of in his notion of text, Quentin’s section draws us into a space where there are no boundaries between the real and the fictive, the present and the past, and the external world and the internal world of mind. Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s “La folie du jour” reveals how the text eclipses the clear divisions between what comes before and what after and what is in the text and what outside, by the narrative’s self-repeating process. Incidentally, Derrida argues…

Hermeneutical Method and Exegetical Paper Literary Criticism is a hermeneutical method which pays close attention to the structure of the text. One of the first question which should be asked when conducting a literary criticism is what genre does the text fall into? When performing a literary criticism as a hermeneutical method, it is also important to establish the pericope of the text as it is extremely unlikely and impractical that a literary criticism would be written about the entire…

Lee’s saw push & pull factor concepts in 1966 . He developed a “general schema into which a variety of spatial movements can be placed” (Lee, 1966:49). He also tried to figure out a number of conclusions with regard to the factors in the act of migration, the volume of migration, the development of streams and counter streams, and the characteristics of migrants. With regard to the factors in the act of migration he divided into “push” factors (factors associated with the area of origin),…