Language contact

Bill Bryson, author of Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, accounts his arrival in Europe for the first time. Bryson’s accounts explains his enthusiasm at his entry into the continent to his audience, the readers. In order to capture his excitement into his writing, Bryson used some syntax, repetition, and epithet, which in turn deliver his excitement to us through his work. One of the rhetorical devices that Bryson uses to successfully express his experience in Europe is syntax. Syntax…

My life, although be it short, has been full of experiences that have sculpted and molded me into the man I am today. I have been given the task to make a cube that makes a collage of my past, present, future, family, and things I enjoy. The goal of this project is to make a cube that acts as a summarization of my life thus far, my goals, and my aspirations. I found pictures and words which I believe best describe me and the phases of my life. Each side of the cube tells a story, which I…

there any languages in which we don’t use words? I can there are languages like that, I consider math and music to be languages, while logic can be also be considered language but it doesn’t apply to all 3 rules of language. The reason why math and music are a language because it applies to the 3 rules of language. Language is rule governed, intended, and open-ended. What is language? Language is when words, information, or emotions are exchanged. That is why logic is considered to be language…

Phonological Awareness criterion. Due to her inability to correctly formulate words, it will affect her ability to read, as well as correctly express her wants and need and decode words. This will affect Tina’s ability to gain expressive and receptive language abilities. Phonics will be utilized to help Tina gain phonological awareness. Phonics is a method used to teach children to read and pronounce words, by first learning the sound of the letter, then grouping them, create syllables and…

established based on the Cognitive-Emotional Theory of language development. The relationship between cognition and emotional development can be traced back to Erik Erikson, Anna Freud, and Selma Fraiberg. Current proponents for this theory include child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan and his colleague Serena Wieder (Nelson, 2010). This theory acknowledges that nature and nurture cannot be individually accepted as the sole influence for language acquisition, but rather their combined…

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…

any literary artifact is translated from one language to another, the artifact itself is changed. The myriad of nuanced and connotative meanings that can be employed by a speaker of any language are often impossible to translate literally into another language. Any translator is forced into recognizing this dichotomy. They must separate what the author is saying apart from the ideas his words stand to represent. In rewriting a story in another language, the translator, in order to preserve the…

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…

I want to first start off by saying this was a hearing person that talked about the functions of what an audiogram does. I observed a guested speaker who talked about the audiogram. She gave us information about what audiogram and what she does. An audiogram is a graph that shows the audible threshold for standardized frequencies as measured by an audiometer which as a Y and X axis. The Y axis represents intensity measured by decibels and the X represents the frequency by hertz. The threshold of…

the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, language and culture influence each other. Benjamin Whorf and Edward Sapir claims that language determines our perceptions of the world (Denham & Lobeck, 2010). Different languages shape up the world in different ways and that could mean that they think of the world in a different way. Language is also maintained to convey culture and without that, both language and culture will die off. Imagine a world where everyone perceives that one language is better than…