Formal language

or formal in its delivery depending on the situation for example within a classroom, social or workplace context. Within Australia it would be expected that the language used be Australian English, however, a person background, culture or working class may cause the individual to struggle with Australian English and may impact on their communication in different contexts. (Emmitt 2010) states that language changes depending on the working class of a family, the middle class use a more formal…

Language Shifts in an Academic Article and Tweets Edward Finegan’s article, “What’s right or wrong about language, and who decides?” It is an academic article. Finegan explains that 1.what is “correct” Language, 2.Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar, 3.Who’s Right? In re-writting the whole thing of Finegan’s article as some Tweets, I try my best to make it shorter and more informal. They have a lot different, like language choices, organization and formatting. In the original article, Finegan…

Introduction Throughout the world spoken language has been the original form of communication. People have been using verbal dialogue to communicate for millions of years where as writing is the more recent form of communicating with one another. It is unclear how spoken language was first used yet writing was invented by Sumerians around 3200 B.C (Bright, 2012). Spoken language is still the primary means of communicating in today’s society however written language also plays an important role…

Surrounding: room size, lighting, decorations, furnishing.  Body language (kinetics): facial expressions, gestures, postures.  Sounds (paralanguage): voice note, volume, speech rate, whistling. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION In written communication, written signs or symbols are used to communicate. A written message may be…

Kosmitzki, the following questions emphasize information I pondered on from the writing: 1. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 2. What message can children and adults learn about language from the movie, The Minions? 3. Is there a lesson we can learn from the marooned cast of Gilligan’s Island about “formal operational thinking” (2011, p. 137)? The Chicken or the Egg? The question of determining whether the chicken came before the egg, or the egg came before the chicken is an inquiry…

Language is a method of shared, social and cultural rules of communication people use to interact with one another (Gee & Hayes, 2011, p. 6). It can vary between formal and informal registrars, depending on the relationship of its participants and is dependent on the context in which it is used. Within each relationship or community of people, communication and expressions transmitted through language purposeful – it is fundamental for human sustainability and functionality. Language can be…

Language plays an important role in a child’s intellectual, emotional and social development. Language can be both seen and heard. Language is a guide to social reality (Sapir, 1949). For example, body language, sign language and the social convention about how to combine words, express and connect ideas to interact with other people. All language including written, visual and spoken developed from cultural and social contexts and understood in people's social and cultural background (Green,…

The English language is a very complex language across all its forms. It means one thing to one person and something entirely different to another person even though the same words are spoken or written. Communication is the transfer from one person to another person of information and is open to individual interpretation which can lead to communication issues (Ferraro and Palmer, ND). Language and communication can generally be categorised as both verbal (spoken language) and non-verbal…

defined Discourse as a “socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, feeling, believing, valuing, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself…of a socially meaningful group…” (Gee, 1990, p. 143, as cited in McCarthy, 2016). Language Register It is important that children learn what Language Register and take advantage as “Competent oral communication requires being able to use a variety of language registers and being able to choose that which best fits the…

Language is one of few things that makes human differ from the rest of the animals. There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today, and all of them consist of sound, and meaning which paired up by grammar. Every language has a grammar, regardless of how simple or how complicated they are, when you compare them with each other. You can roughly group grammar into 2 types, prescriptive and descriptive. Just like what Steven Pinker wrote in his The Language Mavens, prescriptive rules…