Linguistics

Translation is an important term in our life, we use it daily in life. We translate our feelings into actions, and our ideas, thoughts, and knowledge into word. But the formal term of translation deals with languages, it is basically changing words from one language into another. Translation in history has been through three main periods. The first one was the beginning of the christian era where many languages interacted to create the new christian civilisation. The second was begins with the…

Linguistics has shown a constant evolution in the way studies, language, and the art of expression is observed throughout centuries. Within this branch of linguistic studies introduces an important sub-part known as Pragmatics. Pragmatics shows the study of meaning of how words string together to create meanings which may be different depending upon context. Pragmatics borrows different types of disciplines such as philosophy, sociology other parts of linguistics and anthropology to approach the…

substratum of the linguistic process; this is produced by the social environment which becomes the psychological reality and shapes the kind of speech one produces. Thus, the language produced will show some preferences, which are stabilized through time and “eventually come to play an important role in the regulation of intellectual, social and affective orientation” (1971, p.98). Consequently, children who grew up in different social environments will adopt different speech systems or…

Söderfeldt, & Risberg, 2000). This is due to the ability to process, understand, and respond to sign language, which engages the brain and leads to greater mental flexibility. In addition, this study on sign language and its influence on linguistic, non-linguistic skills, brain plasticity, and memory have shown that early acquisition of sign language has a positive influence in developing mental skills. The Deaf use sign language as their communication with others who can also understand signed…

The process of finding an article of interest begins by opening the Internet and going to a general website where one can conduct a common search. Some examples of general websites are Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Once this website is open, an individual can type in the name of the topic he or she in interested in finding out more information about. For example if an adult is interested in finding out information about optimizing the development of children, he or she can type in something like “ways…

that children develop cognitive before spake. The theory of cognitive development has a strong tie with language development. Since Jonathan is being exposed early to language, there is no dupt he developed cognitive skills. the second theory is linguistic. theorist such Chomsky (pippter ) stated in the theory of LAD that children are born with nature capable of acquire and produce language. Whatever that theory stated, communication with the child in very early age is the key to develop…

Kjerkegaard (2011:6 ) in his article "Seven Days without a Pun Makes One Weak. Two Functions of Wordplay in Literature and Literary Theory" attempts "to demonstrate that the significant differences between the various understandings of wordplay originate from its unique flexibility. This flexibility can be exploited in literary language through an interaction between a semiotic deficit and a semantic surplus. It could be claimed that wordplay is viewed in either a semiotic or a semantic…

intelligence or knowledgeable and the language ability in children and for adults. Bilingual speakers has fluency in two languages, and whose use both languages in their daily routine. Monolingual speakers have more expending structured system of linguistic system and semantic intent. Therefore, bilingualism and monolinguals have some different and effects of how they are thinking and acting. Bilingualism has some consequences regarding…

2.3.2 Negotiation of Meaning in FTF Interaction Foster (1998) represented a classroom perspective on the negotiation of meaning. He argued that tasks provide comprehensible input by exchanging information and results in comprehensible output which this process promotes learning. The study was conducted in a classroom setting by intermediate English foreign language learners. They engaged in information exchange tasks in both dyads and small groups. The results revealed that dyads produced more…

for assistance from the interlocutor. For Faerch and Kasper, there are two opportunities open to the speaker to overcome his communication problems: enact some kind of avoidance by changing or reducing the original communicative goal or adopt what linguistic means he has to achieve the…