Linguistic rights

Language in still the ideal manner of communication in today’s culture. It can have immense power and the impact relies on how one wields it. The power of language can evolve ideas and beliefs into concrete reality. Changing one verb in a sentence, has the capability to change the whole meaning. The power to change one's perspective and opinions from a few words, is incredible. Religions, Empires and even revolutions were created and grew by powerful language. One of the biggest contributors…

English Language Teaching over the years has undergone many changes. With the focus shifting to communicative competence and learning centred approach, English courses have become more needs oriented. This change, however, is not visible in every English language course. Some courses are yet to reflect the communicative value of language teaching. They look like courses on grammar where the focus is on teaching the form and not on the communicative use of English. The situation becomes more…

when Nabokov is asked whether he feels he has “any conspicuous or secret flaw as a writer,” he replies it is “the absence of a natural vocabulary” (S.O., 106). Specifically, he bemoans that his English is “stiffish, artificial thing, which may be all right for describing a sunset or an insect, but which cannot conceal poverty of syntax and paucity of domestic diction when [he needs] the shortest road between warehouse and shop” (S.O., 106). Similarly, the narrator of Nabokov’s Lolita, Humbert…

importance of language and its impact on life to the deaf community. The deaf community worldwide, a unique community, affirm with their uniqueness, not relating deafness as a disability at all. Instead, the deaf community sees deafness as a cultural and linguistic identity and not a communication barrier (National disability services, 2016). Sign language diversity and deaf culture distinguish the deaf community and their use of sign language in a way that excels beyond oral language. The…

paste (Ewen, 2012).The Karen people refuse invitations to eat with one another initially as a manner of respect and then they modestly accept (The Cleveland Clinic Office of Diversity, 2012). For Karen people, food is eaten with the fingers of the right hand. Those who live in more urban areas may eat with a fork and a spoon and sometimes chopsticks are used while eating noodles (Ewen,…

which are constructed with reference to spatial orientation, which comes from people’s emotional and physical experience. The concepts are related in the following ways: up or down, in or out, front or back, on or off, deep or shallow. Cognitive linguistics holds that this kind of metaphor project the spatial concept of the source domain onto an abstract target domain and cross-domain mapping is not random, but rooted in our body structure, daily life experience and knowledge.…

Chapter One Introduction 1.1 The background of the study S. P. Corder, a famous linguist, pointed out: we actually haven’t the ability to make students learn a kind of language, the thing we can do is to create a proper language learning environment, which proved the importance of language environment in language teaching. With the globalization of economy and the frequency of communication, our country and society had the higher requirement for the use of English. However, at present, the…

Bușe Ionela Monalisa Coordonator: Lect. univ. dr. Sibișan Aura Braşov 2015 TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV FACULTY OF LETTERS DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS MA PROGRAMME: LINGUSTIC STUDIES FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION MA DISSERTATION Tess of the D’Urbervilles, an unfair existence…

To begin with the research conducted by Daniel Everett does support claims made by the linguistic researchers, Benjamin Whorf and Edward Sapir. Specifically this essay will focus on Daniel Everett’s research that was about the Brazilian tribe called the Piraha. The specific concepts that will be focused on within this essay are about the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which is referred to as the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis (Lucy, 1997, p. 294). A purpose of this essay intends to demonstrate that…

“The Firstborn” is a free verse poem, a name first used to describe the movement in French poetry in the late nineteenth century aiming to free poetry from the strict conventions of rhyme and rhythm. Traditional rhythm is abandoned and is replaced by natural rhythm and cadences of ordinary speech, so the flow of the verse rises and falls at random as do the poet’s thoughts and emotions thus enabling the reader to relate to the topic. There are three stanzas in the poem with a rhyming pattern of…