Formal language

heritage languages: in Canada, only half of second generation Canadians will retain it. According to Stat Canada’s 2008 survey, only 55% of us 5,702,700 second generation Canadians nationally defined as children with at least one immigrant parent will preserve their mother tongue. Although this might be an improvement from the 41% in 1981, the future doesn’t seem too bright. Compared to our neighbours the United States, Canada plays a major support to multiculturalism and heritage languages.…

context”. (Nunan, 1993, P. 20) In addition, discourse in linguistics, is a unit of language larger than a single sentence. More broadly, discourse is known as the use of spoken or written language in a social context. Furthermore, discourses need, by no means, be “grand” or large scale. (Gee, 2006, P. 22) To conclude, text is one among the different levels of language which is investigated according to a branch of language known as discourse analysis. Secondly, text analysis and…

My communication will be improved. I will be able to use professional language, and I will be able to approach people in a proper way, especially those who work in a formal business. College will help me to be a better writer in the future. Furthermore, college will increase my comprehension of reading difficult text. I will learn a variety of new words and context clues…

Chris Lonsdale presented a Ted Talk called “How to Learn Any Language in Six Months.” Lonsdale is a psychologist, a linguist, and an educator; and he is the author of a book called “The Third Ear.” The topic of his speech was how an adult can learn a new language. He addresses the issues that many people come across when trying to learn a new language; there is not enough time, it cannot be made a priority, the words cannot be used in necessary conversations. His talk was very convincing, it…

because language itself is very complex. According to the Linguistic Society of America, there are roughly 6,909 languages in the world. Each language offers a complex set of rules in which they operate, rules that a translator must follow. It is because of such complexities that translations tend to be subject to context errors and cultural mistakes. In this essay I will discuss examples of such errors as well as the challenges that translation faces. COMPLEX LANGUAGES Complex languages like…

The use of proper language, a skill so difficult to learn, but when mastered, reaps a great deal of power. As hyperbolic as it sounds, incorporating proper language in our writing and speaking can be very influential in advocating ideas towards a community. “As a speaker, [you] have some influence on the extent to which others see you as having authority (Smith 13). To gain authority over an audience, one must write and speak with confidence, to be skilled enough to use proper grammar, complex…

the Table 2.5, it would seem that it is translated precisely, yet there are some words changed, thus the idea becomes different than it should be. Using an idiom with the similar meaning but different form should sound very natural in the target language. In Sweeney Todd, the translators managed to achieve a different rendition of the musical piece by using Lithuanian idioms and sayings. In the first example of the table, Lithuanian common saying feels more natural than it would be rendered…

the interesting features of adolescent language and the subsequent attitudes towards them, mainly from the realm of adulthood. Adolescent language appears to experience the most change compared to the language use of either younger children or older speakers, and this is likely due to the idea that around the time of puberty, individuals undergo a large and impactful social change, as their environments, attitudes and stimuli change. As a result, teen language comes to be linked to social change…

Working with different children that range from different ages is something that I have been able to do in the past well taking other child development classes but this semester well I was taking ECH 320 I was able to get the knowledge of what it might be working with an infant all the way to a child that is eight years old. Over the course of the last eight weeks I have been able to observe what it might be to work with a toddler well reading a book to them or even a chance to conduct a four…

life, we use it daily in life. We translate our feelings into actions, and our ideas, thoughts, and knowledge into word. But the formal term of translation deals with languages, it is basically changing words from one language into another. Translation in history has been through three main periods. The first one was the beginning of the christian era where many languages interacted to create the new christian civilisation. The second was begins with the birth of Islam in the seventeenth century…