Lingua franca

Introduction 1.1 Functions of Book Books are very important national development. They play a very important role in communication process. They convey knowledge social and national integration, project cultural values, facilitate the participation of people in development of activities and promote international cooperation development. Reader can learn knowledge from the author through the book (MABOPA, 2015). 1.2 Features of the books 1.2.1 Books are the least “mass” of the mass media…

English is my native language. Southern English is my dialect. I traveled all over the world, many times over and I have many observations on languages. I grew up in Northern California, son of father from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a mother from Graceville, Florida. Though English was my natural language, but needless to say, I was surrounded by a large variety of dialects. I always said yes sir, yes ma’am to any adult. If called by an adult, I was to answer with “Sir/Ma’am”. I had…

Se Habla Espan᷉ol and Mother Tongue Tanya Maria Barrientos and Amy Tan are similar but also contain some key differences. Barrientos and Tan are children of immigrants that are ashamed of their families heritage. Although Barrientos and Tan were raised within different cultures, they are both ashamed of where they came from. As Barrientos says, “I wanted to call myself Latino, to finally take pride, but it felt like a lie” (631). Barrientos wanted to speak her native language, which was Spanish…

In the article Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, she scrutinizes her mother’s language, her own use of English and society’s response to different peoples English usage, to show us the power of a language. It’s not very often that we see Asian- Americans writing books and getting big hits, because some English that they write or speak is not fully understood. Tan uses her own personal experiences to get us to realize that language is so broad. She uses a lot of examples of her mother’s “broken” English,…

There are many people who can’t speak proper English, maybe because English wasn’t their first language. Or simply because they didn’t grow up around it. In the passage Mother-Tongue by Amy Tan, Amy wants to let the audience know about another language. This is another language that she speaks people refer it to as “broken” english. In her passage she uses some rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos, and ethos. Amy Tan only speaks from personal experience. Her mother is a Chinese, Native.…

Brigitte Ghorayeb – 201721664 ENG 227 – Introduction to Language Writing systems 1. What languages are used in the display tags? What is your impression of this? The languages that are used in the display tags are English and Arabic; English in the naming of the objects, and both English and Arabic under the objects in the footnotes that describe something related to the object (historical/cultural background or any other type of information). I think these choices are quite reasonable because…

The aim of the research is to confirm Internet forum’s sociolect validity among other co-existing sociolects. In order to provide the full spectrum of the sociolect’s potential, particular hypotheses must be made. Should be established Hypothesis 1: Music-oriented Internet forum sociolect uses international English language. Graphic evidences provided in chapter two inform, that ‘afterhours.fm’ forum members use English language to express their opinions in music threads. Comparison to a larger…

My mother had to put me in school, find a job, living situation wasn’t so great she had to find a house, it was just an abundant of work that she had to get done and on top of that she is trying to learn a new language. There are many Multilanguage organizations for people who are in my mother’s situation since my mother had not mastered the English language, she needed a helping hand, having someone to translate important documents, give suggestions on where are the finest places to stay, eat,…

Whether we are Hispanics, African, or other ethnicities, our mother tongue is different than the English language. When pronouncing our name in English the accent of our name changes it is no longer our name, When English becomes our second language, our mother tongue stays with us because it is our language from culture. However, when English is our second language it is more likely to become less fluent than our first language. In Manuel Munoz essay, "Leave Your Name at the Border", Munoz…

“Writing is an exploration”. Famous American novelist, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow once said that “A person can start from nothing but learn as he goes.” Focusing on this idea, it is possible to say that writing is a skill to put ideas on a piece of paper and not be afraid if one does not like writing. Even the greatest writers like Shakespeare, James Joyce, and others might not have thought that their writing was exceptional at the beginning; but they had to start somewhere, from scratch, and later…