Languages

Introduction It is considered that language is like “a mirror image of society” or “a system of measurement to evaluate the social perceptions” in various aspects of human life in different societies at different historical timeline. (Khang, 2011). Social changings push the development of language to recognize and reflect those movements. Beside social factors, cultural background, the growth of economy, education… gender also has a huge impact on the way of using language between two groups…

INTRODUCTION Language samples of children are helpful to see what stage they are at in their language development. By looking at different aspects of their normal speech you can get a pretty clear picture of where the child is at. The language sample that I am going to be talking about is on a little girl names Olivia. She is four years old and is talking to her Aunt. They are playing with some of her toys in a good environment. I feel that this is a good language sample because it is in an…

Endanger languages in 21st century Name: Hery Shah TA’s Name: Madeline Discussion day and time: Monday – 11:00-11:50 Endangered Languages in 21st Century There are thousands of languages spoken by people in the world, but more than half of them are at risk of becoming extinct. Many of the languages are at risk because there are only so many people speaking the language. Many languages are at risk of becoming extinct because they are not common to learn among…

A. Language enculturation At a very young age children start to learn our cultures language, this happens from observation. A child may unintentionally point to something like a tree and their parents will say that’s a tree, after doing that a few times they child learns. They also learn their language from listening to other member of the culture communicating to each other. It is rare for a member of our culture to learn a second language because we hardly come in contact with the outside…

Language Diversity Language Diversity The diversity of languages is a fact of life There are about 6,500 different, mutually unintelligible languages, which belong to 250 large families. There is immense diversity in terms of contrastive sounds (phonemes) from a dozen to 100; in word order - Subject-Predicate, or Topic-Comment; some use inflections while others use particles. Linguistic diversity is related to the diversity of life—humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Every being communicates…

English. However, those who are not in tune with the language style of the group typically get treated as outsiders. Furthermore, language transcends just written and spoken word, the content, and style with which a particular group chooses to portray themselves represent the likeness in thought and emotion among its members. These differences and similarities can be most aptly shown through the educated and uneducated. Taking into account the language of the educated versus that of the…

As a matter of fact, Languages are regarded to have the ability of controlling human thoughts and world perception. Actually language developed by people as a way of communication. Languages affected thought during the different ages. Gender is regarded as linguistic instrument to do this purpose. Some studies showed that although Spanish and German speakers have the same words with identical referents assigned different genders in the respective languages evoke different ideas in their…

ANSWER: I must believe that the complexity of spoken language has a direct effect on the complexity of one’s ideas. The lack of the usage of various parts of speech diminishes the complexity of ideas, as one will simply be unable to community anything other than simple actions and objects. ANSWER: The Eloi communicated using only “concrete substantives” (also known as concrete nouns) and verbs. Concrete nouns are usually used in spoken speech to represent tangible objects that one can feel…

Language is used by human being for interact with each other. Language is a tool for express an idea, opinion, and feeling to other people. In its development, language can’t be separated from other factors out the language, especially the speaker’s background. Many kinds of speaker’s background makes variation of language. Other factors out the language which influences the variation of language such as social class, sex, age, culture, ethnicity, etc. One aspect that is interesting to discuss…

Language and literacy are at the foundation of who we are a human beings. Without a solid foundation of both of these essentials it will affect us both in the way that we can interact with others and also the path that our lives will take. Language can be understood in three basic ways. Firstly, it can be viewed as the way we think about things. In this sense language is cognitive. Secondly, it can be viewed as a physical thing as in speech, the way we talk to communicate. In this sense…