Linguistic rights

Texting has become an important part of our daily life over the last decade, especially to young people. With the popularity of texting rising more and more each day, lots of people start to worry that this kind of activity is damaging students’ abilities to write a decent paper. However, Michaela Cullington has stated in his article that texting isn’t damaging our capability of writing, and in fact, it has no interferences with our writing abilities in general. In his article, Cullington…

speaking. There are kids that excel in their linguistic abilities and there are others that have trouble explaining through the use of words. One little boy of Asian ethnicity spoke to his classmate with complete sentences and his friend responded back with stuttering and broken sentences. The little Asian boy had trouble focusing and had a lot of energy while being in class but he had a strength in communicating with others. Another form of cognitive and linguistic development is for students…

People who are conscious of their indigenous identity are keen to incorporate aspects of their mother tongue in common languages. However, not all individuals feel proud of expressing their forms of synthesized language. The relationship between cultural identity and language is mutual. Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and Anzaldua Gloria “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” are exquisite examples of the formation of language and cultural identities due to interactions with American culture. A comparative…

As society becomes more technologically advanced, the evolution of texting becomes more routine in the daily life of any middle-class individual. With all the texts that are being sent around, one must wonder whether or not this form of communication is damaging the English language. An intrigued linguist known as John McWhorter set out to uncover the truth about texting, and it turns out he believes that texting is not harming the English language, but is modifying it. He believes that…

profile of a contemporary consumer and the ways he or she is addressed. These observations would allow for the reflection on the social circumstances conditioning such discourse. There are two types of analysis that consider discourse and move beyond linguistic concerns of static structures of language in itself discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, both understanding language in use but critical discourse analysis moves further to see the effect of ideology and power social…

Literacy can be defined as the flexible and sustainable mastery to make meaning with texts of traditional and new communication technologies through spoken language, print and multi-media (Rush, 2004). There are many different literacy theories but one that is widely used in Australia curriculum is called the four resources model introduced by Luke and Freeboy in 1990, which includes multi-literacies framework that supports children on their reading and writing development. According to Luke and…

ANTHROPOLOGY: RULES OF EMOTICONS Why We Use Emoticons Julia Parente ANT100 ANTHROPOLOGY: RULES OF EMOTICONS The Unconscious Rules of Using Emoticons A scholarly written article The Communicative Functions of Emoticons in Workplace E-Mails will be an additional source to support the idea of the use of emoticons in instant messaging discourse. The New York Times article Who Made The Emoticon? by Pagan Kennedy is a factual article on the history of the emoticon and…

Although not many people understand how the Australian language was developed, it can be easily noticed through looking back into Australia’s history. Three main historical events that shaped the language are; the indigenous Australians and how the Australians adapted the indigenous language in their own. The settlement of the convicts in Australia, they brought along their British language and slang which also adapted into the Australian language. Lastly the internet has impacted the English…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors in which minority characters are portrayed in the media. By discussing the key themes that pertains to the Netflix show Orange is The New Black, this paper will analyze the topic of identity and allowing for its application on a larger context that houses within the Structuralism perspective. Identity is an umbrella term to classify the broad categories of race, gender, religion, sexuality, and family/subcultural groups – all of these things…

Bilingualism is everywhere. In our modern world english transcends it s native countries and has become the intermediate language for communications around the world. In fact in the world people are more bilingual than nonolingual’At the same time, in a world inwhich more people are bilingual tha monolingual’. I think that being bilingual make us more special and more flexible.Being bilingual means that we have a lot of emotions and traditions.I think the bilingual education is very important…