Linguistics

the future, can be created to benefit a society, and can influence on cultures as to how people will see the world. How these things happen will be explained as follows. According to McWhorter’s (2015) article, he believes that within time, the linguistic world will be different than what it is today. He states that the current 6000 spoken languages around the world will be reduced to just 600 by 2115. English remains the popular language in the world and it is believed that it will continue to…

people’s aspect, thoughts, and a society (p.215). In other words, people can make assumptions about a society from its language. Thus, people can make assumptions about the mysterious tribe found by anthropologists by examining its linguistic characteristics. For example, linguistic anthropologists can name the mysterious tribe “Utoceaiso” from their assumptions about the tribe. The first part of the name “uto” came from a “utopian” society. Utoceaiso can be considered as a utopian society.…

responsible for. Saving a language from dying out is saving the knowledge of history and language appreciation and essential to individuals and society. Through understanding the values and benefits of language, people is able to grow and embrace the linguistic formation. The Tower of Babel. At the beginning, the whole world had one language and a common speech. But since the Tower of Babel, languages are scattered over the face of the whole earth. Today, there are approximate…

“Dynamic bilingualism refers to the development of different language practices to varying degrees in order to interact with increasingly multilingual communities” (p. 42). Consequently, effective instruction for ELLs should be built on the full linguistic range of the students and also should include practices that are multiple and hybrid, and support the dynamic bilingual practices used by bilingual individuals to create knowledge and understanding (Garcia & Kleifgen,…

Introduction In recent years there has been an increase in research investigating monolingual and bilingual individuals’ cognitive development. In order to research this area more accurately scientist examine language acquisition (how it all begins) in monolingual and bilingual children. This allows them to get an overall better understanding into brain development but also to address the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual and monolingual. Define monolingual and…

During the program, I focused my studies and research on studying the linguistics of English, the theories that govern the language and the theoretical and pedagogical approaches through which such theories may be utilized in facilitating a better experience for individuals who are learning English as a second language. Motivated…

Since the locus of structure is primary in Foucault’s notion of power, CDA accords this perspective in terms of its analysis characteristics which take into account not only the linguistic features of the text but also consider how social structure determine the production of text as a social practice (Wodak and Meyer,…

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…

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…

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…