Language interpretation

insignificant as a single word, with which they can find a personal connection. One word that has personal significance to me is “pretentiousness”. “Pretentiousness” is a noun, originating from the French “prétention”. Its first form in the English language appeared in the mid 19th century as “pretension”. “Pretentiousness” holds significance to me because it is ingrained in the way I probably present myself and in almost everything that holds my interest . Pretentiousness, by literal…

academic world. However, many students experience anxiety in speaking when they are asked to express themselves in front of the class or other people. This is true even their language abilities are good. Anxiety in itself is not a bad thing since a certain amount of anxiety can motivate learners to learn and acquire one particular language. In this term paper, I am going to explore the causes of feeling anxiety in speaking English among students and measures to curb this problem. There are some…

Language has an essential role in human communication. Language is used as a means of communication in order to express feeling, idea, desire, intention, and so on. Learning a particular language becomes one of the subjects required at school nowadays. Regarding to the era of globalization, the demand of the curriculum, and considering that English is an international language, mastering English is a requirement nowadays. That is why many schools attempt to make the students to be able to master…

As we have studied in the particular assignment, one can manage meaning when he can convince others to live the reality he would like to them to pursue. Enigmatic leaders seemingly influence how people perceive reality and therefore act and the language of metaphor is their not-so-secret weapon. “Metaphors are used frequently in everyday life. For example, the notion of organizational culture is a metaphor. Culture is actually a term borrowed from anthropology because organizational scholars…

definition of the developmental disease. There are many interpretations of the disease out there, but there are many umbrella diagnostic definitions that help to focus and help people to recognise the early onset of the disease and perhaps go for early treatment and therapy. There are two main things to note about dyspraxia, one called ideational dyspraxia; which is most characteristically known as the…

Storytelling is ubiquitous across human cultures. There is evidence of longstanding oral tradition through which narratives have been passed down for thousands of years. With the invention of written language came the story’s divergence into two main types, which evolved into the familiar literary and oral formats of modern day. There is no doubt that these two styles share a common ancestor, so to speak, and that they both serve the same basic purpose of transmitting information in a logical…

Who would have known that the language of Native Americans, created hundreds of years before the founding of our nation, would prove to be one of America's greatest secret weapons? The Japanese cracked every code that the Army and Navy came up with, but not the Navajo code. Navajo is a spoken language handed down orally from generation to generation. The Code Talkers created a system of native words to represent characters of the English alphabet so that they could spell out English words that…

rules that determine the appropriacy of utterances(470). Then others as Hymes argues multiple criteria as he believes “A speech community is defined, then, tautologically but radically, as a community sharing knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech.”(470). Now Swales definition breaks down into three parts: The first is concerned with medium; not so much in the trivial sense that 'speech' just will not do as an exclusive modifier of communities that are often heavily…

the SL, or sacrificing euphemisms for conveying the intended meaning. Moreover, they emphasize that the translator should be aware of euphemisms in the Holy Qur'an and translate these expressions accurately according to their meaning in the source language. According to them, retaining euphemism in the TL poses problems to the translators of the Holy Qur'an. However, the best strategy of rendering euphemism is functional translation followed by paraphrasing.…

how the same language can have a different meaning to different people. In the world, Language is as much a barrier as a connector and the same can be said for culture. Language and Culture go hand in hand, Cultures can be based on a language’s characteristics and Languages can help mold the way of society in a certain culture. The differing interpretations of the story of Genesis are representative of the different cultures. Metaphors we live by shows how interpretations of language and…