Linguistics

Language is an essential part of everyday life. What Darwin called ‘the sweet music of our species’ has in fact had a vital role in the establishment of the human as ‘the dominant species’; language creates a strong connection within all members of the same social group and allows to convey a virtually infinite quantity of information, involving both concrete and abstract concepts, as well as past, present and upcoming events. Biologically speaking, this is has been and still is a huge advantage…

Growing up speaking out loud was always difficult; people would stare and whisper. Their whispers would make us feel like we were invisible and they did not know that we could hear them. Raffaela Zanuttini is an advocate for grammatical diversity within the English language. In Zanuttini’s article, “Our Language Prejudices Don’t Make No Sense,” she explains how negative comments directed to minority groups, about their English language, appear to be inappropriate. For example, Zanuttini writes,…

true value is ultimately dependent on perception and that extravagant live can easily deceive. In a nutshell, the utilization of stylistic approach in a literary work is significant as it will not only help the readers to analyze the textual linguistics but also encourages the readers to interact with the textual structure to infer meanings. By scrutinizing a literary work, a deeper insight of it could be observed which indirectly allows a literary work to be more…

Wh-questions formation in English 1. Interrogatives in English According to Fromkin, Robert, Neil, & Harry (2001), one of the linguistic universals is that all languages have a system of asking questions. In English, there are two main kinds of interrogative sentences, close-ended sentences and open-ended sentences. Closed class interrogative sentences have yes/no answer while opened class interrogative sentences having many possible answers. 1.1. Yes/No questions Yes/no question in English is…

Introduction Successful communication depends upon proper pronunciation. As the International Journal of Research in English Education (2017) States communication means to understand and be understood, therefore some people often say that they do not mind about pronunciation because they only want to communicate. That is to say, they are able to communicate even with improper pronunciation. Nonetheless, understandable pronunciation is an essential component of communicative competence according…

Additionally, the correction of this shows that the scribe is in full control of what is changed. Also, if the scribe likes something in a different way then he can do that. Personally, I think that this unfair that the scribe is able to do this. I understand that it is hard to interpret some words in the original manuscript but with research the story should be put at how the original author intended it to be. Another example of this occurring is with Cain and Cam. The scribe saw multiple…

In many classrooms across America today, race and ethnicity are very much on the table. Teachers dream of seeing their students discuss difference in a constructive way. Some educators actively encourage their classes to get outside their comfort zones and confront the country’s racial history, but I ask myself after reading McIntosh’s Interactive Phases of Curricular and Personal Re-Vision Model, how much was race and ethnicity practice in the classroom long ago when I was in elementary. I can…

Assessment: This is the fourth and final draft of my third essay for College English 101. While I fulfill the prompt, I do not convincingly analyze the author's rhetorical strategies. I still have a lot of weak verbs and adjectives roaming around my essay. I need to find a variation for the word "writing" also. Also the analysis needs work and the page limit has been exceeded. Overall, so far this essay feels chopped and put together and needs polishing. Stage of Development: This is the fourth…

Dylan Thomas once said, “Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry … makes you know that you are alone in this unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.” (Huffington Post) Poetry is a vital language that is everywhere around us, but unfortunately ‘actual’ poetry is becoming a lot less popular. Nevertheless, poetry should not be a dead art -- rather it should be embraced. Poetry is a significant art form that positively affects people’s lives by…

Language death is a process that affects speech communities. When the level of linguistic competence the speaker possesses of a given language decreases, eventually will lead to no native or fluent speakers. Language death occurs in many different ways. Language death can occur gradually overtime. Another way language death occurs is…