Generative linguistics

Mother Tongue Every language is unique in itself. Everyone have a different way to express them self. Yet why do we do not accept the people who are different? “Mother tongue” is are on the article written by Amy Tan. In the story, she discusses about her mother ‘fractured” English. How her mother faced difficulties because she had an accent when she talked. She said that “some says they understand none of it is as if she were speaking pure Chinses.” instead of praising her that she…

“Hola, mi nombre es Sra. Rose. Como estas?” that was the first question I heard in Spanish while starting out in preschool. I pretended to go along with it even though I could not understand what she was saying. She continued with saying words in Spanish until I finally could make out what she was talking about. Ever since then I have been exposed to Spanish and now have the understanding and ability to speak it when I want to get a job. I have also been able to help Spanish speakers when they…

Specifically, the research compiled explains the inherent uncertainty in these ideas and the consequent dangers of delving into the complicated study. Keywords: Universalism, Linguistic Relativity, Sapir-Whorf, Psycholinguistic, Language, Cognition Language, the most diverse yet universal concept, has existed since the beginning of mankind. An important aspect of growth and development, language is the means by which ideas…

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children significantly shaped the course of Indian writing in English. This great work of art gave Rushdie a prominent position in the literary canon. He got a definite place in the readers‟ heart. Midnight's Children is a typical example of a postcolonial novel that integrates the elements of magic realism into it. The author‟s intentional use of magic realism helps in bringing out the surreal and unreal dimensions of the Indian subcontinent and thereby making it a…

T.S. ELIOT’S THOUGHTS IN HIS WRITINGS ARE CLEAR MIRROR OF MODERN LIFE Dr. Basappa Y. Bangari Associate Professor Head Department of Indian and Foreign Languages Garden City University Bengaluru-560049, Karnataka, India bangari163@gmail.com +919448377922 Abstract: This paper attempted to understand influence of modern life on Eliot’s thoughts and writings. Therefore Eliot’s thoughts in his writings are considered as a clear mirror of modern life. After reading Miss Weston’s book “From Ritual to…

SECTION A A1. Definition: Communication is imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing or using some other medium. Communication process:  Sender: The person who intends to convey the message with the intention of passing information and ideas to others is known as sender or communicator.  Ideas: this is the subject matter of the communication. This may be an opinion, attitude, feeling, views, orders, or suggestions.  Encoding: The subject matter further…

Literature Review: Imagery is used very effectively in literary works of Rome, Greece and England. William Shakespeare, John Keats, T.S Eliot, Shelley, WordsWorth, Thomas Moore, Charles Lamb, Walter Scott and Coleridge are only a few literary figures in the realm of English literature. Cultures all around the world have used imagery in their folklores, poems and literatures for thousands of years. Renaissance poets enjoyed using visual imagery of birds especially in their love poetry and…

1.Introduction What is the most effective way of learning a new language? Every language learner has their own study experience from different back ground. They have different purposes and motivation. The motivation is most important develop language knowledge, a motivated person would not quit at the first mistake. From my own experience, I have already had a challenge to learn English and had the opportunity to learn Italian for 5 weeks. The learning process of Italian was more mindful; I…

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy uses different cultural references that not everyone might understand. The cultural context necessary to understand what Roy writes about, makes it interesting to study how two different readers could interpret parts of The God of Small Things differently. This essay will focus on how a native Hindu practising Indian vs a western reader may interpret certain sections of the novel. Roy’s use of stylistic devices when talking about the cultural aspects, can…

ABSTRACT Cultural transition is one of the most common subjects dealt in literature. It is not always depicted explicitly and so in order to locate them discourse needs special reading. Through such a reading, from a certain point of view, we find John Millington Synge showing peasant culture fractured by modernity. In his one act play, Riders to the Sea, J. M. Synge presents us a folk culture in transition, for the play deals not only with deaths or grief about the losses but also with the…