Linguistic rights

Abstract A speech act is an utterance that serves a function in communication. It is the basic unit of language used to express meaning, an utterance that expresses an intention. Normally, the speech act is a sentence, but it can be a word or phrase as long as it follows the rules necessary to accomplish the intention. In our daily life interactions, we perform a speech act whether through greeting, requesting, apologizing...etc. Speech act is generally associated with pragmatic equivalence.…

educators have a responsibility to understand how best to meet children's needs and how to provide effective early childhood education for all children. National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) position statement, responding to Linguistic and Cultural Diversity some recommendations for Effective Early Childhood Education, offers principles of good early childhood practice which hold true regardless of the language spoken by children or their families. “Among these, the…

components to teaching a foreign language to a high school class is the selection of an appropriate and engaging textbook. Choosing the right textbook involves a variety of considerations such as: is the material clearly presented and easy to decode/understand/read; is it engaging and is there continuity/flow in the way that it is laid out and presented; and is it at the right level (Spanish I, II, and III) where the student is at in their acquisition of the foreign language they are learning…

Setting Students’ Words Free, Different Dialects the same Language: The Relationship between Standard Literacy and Individual Literacy Identity Literacy has always been a way of expressing one’s opinions yet, with an array of linguistic literacy it has wrongly fallen to school educators to decide what literacy practices are acceptable. Along with the United States government, state school boards decided Standard English was the only way in determining literacy capabilities across America.…

difficulty in pronouncing it (Lightbown, P., & Spada, N. M., 2006). Same as in Thai language which does not have th, it also creates hardship for Thai people to pronounce th sound correctly and clearly. 2.5.2 Cross linguistic influence Lightbown, P., & Spada, N. M. (2006) defines “Cross-linguistic influence” as a relationship between first and…

Article Summary Culture and Language have always been seen as two sides of the same coin. One individual cannot participate in society or interact with their environment without the cultural and linguistic filter since “all human activity is linguistically and culturally mediated”. This relation between culture, language and social individuals play a key role in Education. As the authors say, there is an increasing awareness of multiculturalism in today’s classroom, but schools have always been…

each other’s language. In my opinion, Dr. Bank together with Dr. Ian, however, have done their job very well in understanding the purpose of the Heptapods coming to the Earth by using the theory taught in the Sapir-Whorf theory. This includes the linguistic relativity, language complexity and vocabulary differentiation. The first theory visualized in the movie is the Sapir-Whorf’s…

Another theory is the one created by Raskin referred to as The Semantic Script Theory, which is a theory of verbal humour. In his theory the linguistic incongruity stresses the switching of context. According to Raskin (1985: 99) there is an “enriched, structured chunk of semantic information, associated with word meaning and evoked by specific words” called scripts. Those scripts are linked with each other forming semantic net-works (Attardo 1994: 201). Raskin highlights that in order to create…

CULTURE I grew up in eastern part of Nigeria, and my first knowledge of culture as a way of life was being passed to me through the oral tradition as I moved along with parents and relatives. I can remember my interpretation of culture had to do with language, food, dressing and mode of reference. In fact, people’s dress code or language mode easily exposed from which part of location they were from and this made me to associate culture with location and race. I remembered in an occasion my dad…

Over the years language has had a change in the way we speak. Slang has become one of the most popular forms of the way we communicate. Slang is often used when people are among their friends or other social groups. To understand slang, you have to begin with understanding language. Understanding slang involves the understanding of the English language, how it has changed, and what slang is. John Algeo wrote that English came from the same ancestor as German. This dates back to the fifth…