Corpus linguistics

Help children to make listening and learning language easier for them by following some simple guidelines:  Position yourself face to face as you play and talk with them. This makes it easier for them to see when you are talking, and to shift their attention back and forth between their activity and your face. Being able to see your face also allows the child to use your facial expressions and lip patterns to help them understand your words.  Make sure you have the child’s attention each time…

This study examines discursive features in a narrative of a convicted rape offender. In particular, this study focus on the ways in which the rapist, Nathan constructs his version of an account of the rape incident. The data for the analysis was extracted from the transcripts of group therapy sessions in a prison-based Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) in Britain between 1995 and 1996. The analysis suggested that his discourse is built on two main practical ideologies in recasting his…

(Formal Operations) stage. Vygotsky modified Piaget’s theory with the idea that language can be improved and changed with direct instruction and, as a result, language development isn’t static. Vygotsky believed that language develops from social and linguistic…

Charles Simic Few survivors of the monumental World War 2 have survived to pass on their tales, and even fewer of these share their experiences through poetry. Charles Simic is a rare gem in the poet community, whose work is reflected by the span of countries, time periods and life lessons he has experienced. A figurehead of the surrealist movement in poetry, Charles Simic has established a firm reputation for his poetry in the United States. Born on May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Simic…

There are five parts of language that were used to analyze Jacob and Rachel in the video. The five parts of language are semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonology, and syntax. All of these are different types of spoken language. Let’s take a closer look at each part of language. Semantics deals with the content and meaning of expressions (Thomason, 1996). The book states that semantics is a part of language that is concerned with rules governing the meaning and the content of words or units…

Children are amazing little beings. They learn so much in a short amount of time, especially when it comes to language. In addition to many other things, psycholinguists study children and their language development. They are interested in “whether the capacity for language is a skill that is built into the brain or whether language acquisition is experience-driven” (McCabe 370). I believe that language development happens quickly in children because it is the focus of the adults around them.…

Q1. “Take a close look at Beau’s fur. Use a qualitative data to describe it.” Q2. “What is hair made up of? How much of it is protein, carbohydrate, nucleic acids, and lipids?” Q3. “Take a close look at Beau’s fur. Use qualitative data to describe it. How has Beau’s coat changed between puppyhood and adolescent?” Q4. “What do you think is happening to Beau’s coat change? What are your initial hypothesis?” Q5. “Based on what you know now about Beau’s parents and littermates, what do you think is…

A person with a “normal” sense of perception will accurately interpret various stimuli. Words will simply look like words. Sounds will only trigger emotional responses. Scents will merely give someone a pleasant fragrance or a horrid odor. In a synesthete’s world—that is, someone diagnosed with synesthesia—these interpretations tend to skew. The first notable case was published by Georg Sachs in 1812, based on the elucidation of himself (Jewanski, Jay, & Ward, 2009). SYMPTOMS As mentioned…

They function with the linguistic system to establish the relationships between grammatical units in a discourse. This language concept defined differently by many scholars and it has a high frequency in linguistics. Scholars used this word when they want to refer to an extant more than one sentence. As Sadeghi and Kargar (2014) said "discourse means consistency in a…

Evolution, Physical & Linguistic Anthropology Evolution is defined by Charles Darwin as a process in which “organisms develop or diversify from an early simple form to that of more recent or complex form.” (Than, K. 2015). Physical anthropology is the study of how those living organisms evolve over the course of history. These physical anthropologists investigates evolution by examining artifacts, fossils, and other remains that have been left behind, in order to understand the differences in…