Lingua franca

This makes people to use their lingua franca which is temporary used language. Japan had suffered from using English as their second language, is a burden for them by complexity of connotations. In this contect, English had been viewed as another major source of Japanese miscommunication…

Endangered Language Ladin Danter nos baiunse ladin, deache chësc é nosc lingaz dla uma. Mo val’ iade ti dunse inće a nüsc ghesć le bëgnodü por ladin." This sentence, written in the Ladin language, literally means “We speak Ladin among ourselves because Ladin is our mother tongue.” 1dolomites. I have been lucky enough to visit Northern Italy several times in the last few years. I speak some Italian, and while visiting Lake Garda, I heard people speaking a different language then standard…

The Fatimid Caliphate (ad-Dawlah al-Fāṭimiyya) was an Ismaili Shia Caliphate, it lasted from the year 909 to the year 1171 and eventually fell when its last Caliph (Al Athid or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ) died, making place for the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt and Syria under Saladin. The Fatimid Caliphate was the only Shi’a Caliphate, it was tied to the Ismaili branch of Shi’a Islam, the belief is centered around Isma’il, the son of Ja’Far As-Sadid, the sixth Imam and seventh…

Culture and communication are inter-related. Hall (1959) believes that "culture is communication and communication is culture" (p. 169). Every culture has its own unique language; language made of beliefs, traditions, ideals and values which is a strong determinant of how one describes an experience and behaves in a situation. Different culture perceives the world in a distinct way, unlike any other culture which forms a language and acts as a means of communication. In the article “Cultural…

Scholarly 1. "Chinua Achebe"- Author of this short story, Achebe himself is a fellow Nigerian that lived through the Nigerian Civil War. In "Poetry as Therapy: Reflections on Achebe's "Christmas in Biafra" and Other Poems" author Emmanuel Obiechina wrote," It could be said also of Chinua Achebe that the "madness" of Nigerian history, especially the prelude to the civil war, the brutalities of the war itself, and the aftermath, "hurt" and drove him into writing poetry, but unlike Auden, Achebe…

These days English is the lingua franca of the whole world. In our modern world English is the language of commerce, education and diplomacy, so, reading in this language considered as an important skill for those who learn it as their second or foreign language. Reading can be viewed as an interactive process between a reader and a text, in this process the reader dynamically interacts with the text and tries to encode the meaning and gets the writer intended meaning. Reading comprehension by…

The Basque people have throughout history endured a prolonged fight for their right to become an independent country and live together in unity. As they are split in two countries, progress seems far away. Furthermore, since they are living in two different countries and, therefore, speaking two different languages communication provides an interesting difference for comparing and contrasting. This essay shall introduce into the Basque culture regarding their cultural and intercultural issues.…

INTRODUCTION Language change is created by social, political and technological issues which take an important role when language is used for communication (Beard, 2004). Languages have been modified over the years in many forms ranging from phonology, semantics, morphology, lexis, syntax and other features of language. More than 360 million people speak English as a native language (Crystal, 2006). The majority of these people live in North America, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the…

Finally, one of the most recognized indigenous Mexican groups is the Aztec, is also the most powerful kingdom of all time in Mesoamerica. This enormous empire reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present day-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people lived in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities paying tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the great Aztec empire. The Aztec spoke a version of…

English is making a miracle in these days. It has the power to make the whole world rotate around it. The whole world has understood the importance of communication. With the help of developing technology, English has become a global language, the lingua franca of the world. Effective communication skills in English is considered highly important for personal as well as professional growth. Globalization directly affects…