Linguistic Society of America

Whether it is technologically or intellectually, our generation has been one step ahead. With the influence of new media, TV, and movies, society has become accustomed to using curse words on a day to day basis. Once upon a time, people would be more than surprised to hear a swear word escape the mouth of a friend, but in today’s society swear words are used more commonly than not. However, instead of cursing being used to offend someone, swear words have now been assigned to everything…

Indians are the indigenous peoples of the Americas. According to Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014), the name Indian is supposedly first given by Christopher Columbus who thought that the mainlands were part of the Indies, in Asia (p. 1). During the first contact between the Americas and Europe, there have been said to be over 90 million Indians living in the United States (Funk and Wagnalls NWE, 2014, p. 1). The cultured parts of North America are most of the south, the Plains, the…

Hannah 2008: first, new objects and experiences were encountered in North America which needed naming, either by adapting EngEng vocabulary or by creating new words: e.g. Corn is the general English term for grain and denotes the most common grain crop, which is wheat in England but maize in North America; the word Robin denotes a small, red- breasted warbler in England but a large, red-breasted thrush in North America. Second: Technological and cultural developments…

understand by these terms? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach? In translation practice, foreignization and domestication are two important translation strategies that translators need to consider when approaching the linguistic and cultural difference in source texts. However, these two concepts are mutually exclusive. Foreignization aims to maintain as much as possible the exotic cultural foreignness of the source language, retain the original cultural image in…

speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”― Frantz Fanon ("Quotes About Linguistics." (109 Quotes). N.p., n.d. Web. Apr. 2016. ) Language is most important to live in this world. When one want to communicate with people, you need skill of language and language is our identity. French Canadian express their identity using culture because of language, they mind has been changed because of bilingualism society and they respect identity of their own language. From this reason, own can say…

Advertisement Analysis: Avos in Space (Avocados From Mexico) For this linguistics analysis, I have chosen an ad from 2016 for Avocados From Mexico titled “Avos in Space.” The premise of the ad is that aliens have taken some of Earth’s most notable objects, and used them in a museum of sorts. Most of these things are misidentified or have undue value placed on them. Finally, at the end of the tour, the aliens participating in the tour reach an avocado tree, a bowl of guacamole, and a bag of…

Peters Critical Analysis The following essay being summarized and analyzed “He Said, Scheme Said” by Mark Peters was originally published in the Boston Globe on January 31, 2016. Peters has a PhD in English and is a member of the American Dialect Society. This essay is a piece that explores the English language, specifically the need for a gender-neutral singular pronoun. I will examine whether the text is balanced, examples of various perspectives the author adopts, and main questions and…

Although sign language was nearly lost by the year 1913 due to the dominance of oralism in the educational system of the deaf in America, many deaf people still communicated with each other using sign language regardless of their own personal risk and other environmental pressures. Also sometime later, many advances developed especially in the technological fields, which enabled the deaf to express themselves in completely different, new ways and helped them share their ideas and concerns with…

language, because it wasn’t his own. Quoted in the earlier paragraphs, “But I couldn’t believe that the English language was mine to use. (In part, I did not want to believe it.)” The author felt as if the more he converged to the public language and society, the more things personal to him would change. The readers supporting evidence differs from Gloria’s Essay. Her supporting leads were to change her language up in many ways so people…

American communities has been problematic. Many This is largely due to them living in closed communities of other Mexican immigrants which reduce their need to assimilate with America. Some children can face bulling at schools, play grounds as numerous cases have been reported that immigrant children being bullies in America due to their physical appearance, language and animosity between the two…