Linguistic rights

are important to parents considering the future of their children. Not only in the developing countries, even industrialized nations like China naturally think learning English builds the road to an international and more successful future. Is it right to stop children from seeking their dream? Wouldn’t it be better to open those languages to public and make it accessible to people all around the world? With such advanced technologies these days, saving words and voices should not be a problem…

Introduction Throughout the world spoken language has been the original form of communication. People have been using verbal dialogue to communicate for millions of years where as writing is the more recent form of communicating with one another. It is unclear how spoken language was first used yet writing was invented by Sumerians around 3200 B.C (Bright, 2012). Spoken language is still the primary means of communicating in today’s society however written language also plays an important role…

learners to settle for lower standards than the best." (9) The monocentric school's aim was to preserve the English language and encourage users worldwide to imitate either British or American native speakers because for Quirk, they speak the right form of English. Quirk's…

A vast number of people feel like outcasts when they are criticized or discriminated against for how they converse. English variants differ from country to country due to linguistic culture. My English in closed doors is very informal, however in public, its professional and formal. Personality and behavior are two things you develop while growing up, but language is also a huge part in your advancement as a child. Intelligent people are expected to speak the finest, but your dialect also…

mean, it is also necessary to understand how words and phrases are strung together to make coherent sentences. This helps in comprehending the meaning of a text overall. Hence the study of linguistics is vital for understanding the ins and outs of the English language. According to Toolan, “appropriate linguistic terms and descriptions can articulate an inward understandings of the working of a language” (iix). Amongst the numerous elements of the English language, there are terms called models…

STUDENTS’ MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Desy Nur Farida 21602073029 1. Introduction Errors frequently made by students in learning the second/ foreign language. These are very important to be discussed not only by teachers but also by students themselves in order to know the students’ weaknesses so that the teachers can make remedial teachings and the students can learn from their own errors. Among those errors is morphological error. The objectives of this short essay are to…

using gestures, and suddenly it is like charades. That is exactly what young children and even older adults experience when living with expressive language disorder. When it comes to expressive language disorder, all of your thoughts and ideas are right there in your head, but the words just won’t come together when you try to say them. Before you can determine if expressive language disorder as a diagnosis, it is important to consider what it exactly is, the signs, the types, and treatments.…

that a rhetorical situation, plays in effect to one’s attempt to learn the correct language through enculturating themselves in non-classroom settings. The idea behind writing rhetorically depends on the situation that’s occurring. So what is the right way to speak? Through the works of James Paul Gee and June Jordan, we see that common interaction is useful when it comes to talking-speaking. In his work…

This is an essay especially created to illustrate the, quite few, but evident, the flaws of the English language. Though easy to learn, versatile and beautiful, the political evolution and the political power shift, have created a certain stereotype, and people tend to write, some sort of, robotic sentences, using a lot of words to express a short, simple message. Humanity didn’t do this on its own, politics and snobbery played crucial roles in this development. Instead of using simplicity, we…

Culture influences language and they are connected to one another. Language is a reflection of culture. Culture is the main idea and language is that detail that conveys the main idea. In short, language and culture connects to one another and can not be separated. The one that I find the most compelling from the theories of language and culture that we have encountered,is that in order for you to fully understand the language first you have to understand the culture, because culture creates…