Linguistics

Defining Bilingualism: Baker (2011) has defined bilingualism is about being able to speak two languages. It is just an ability of a person to speak in two languages and not about competency in either. A bilingual person’s competency may be limited to one language which is his or her dominant language or the person may be competent in both the languages. Grosjean (2010) as quoted by Baker (2011) proposes that bilingualism is not just the knowledge it is rather speaking two languages regularly. A…

Activity 2 In order to carry out this task properly, I have analyzed the corresponding content of Yule’s book (Yule, 2010). Instructions: Answer the following discussion project from Yule’s The Study of Language: There is a principle of syntax called “structure dependency” that is often used to show that the rules of language structure depend on hierarchical organization and not on linear position. For example, someone trying to learn English might be tempted to think that questions of the type…

Color doesn’t define character, but ethnicity. Ethnicity doesn’t define religion, and religion doesn’t define character. A concept is not understood, even in a country of immigrants. The world has become conjoined but concurrently separate. With ethnic cliques and racism as active as ever due to recent events, it seems that anybody who isn’t of the same color, can’t be of the same social standard. Cultures, people, and geography interest me more than a textbook with some words and pictures…

cultural diversity.’ Exception Children. Internet Material Pavlenko, Anetta. (2004). ‘Gender and sexuality in foreign and second language education: Critical and feminist approaches’. Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning (Cambridge Applied Linguistics, pp. 53-71). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: Accessed: April 4 2017 Reijo, Yoshihara. (2014). ‘The Feminist EFL Classroom: What and How do Feminist Teachers Teach in University EFL Classrooms?” Availbale from:…

definition. For me, James Paul Gee theory is not just about the definition of the elements of discourse but, about certain components that present themselves in our everyday life as well in our community. In his introduction “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics”, Gee brings various aspects to my attention, such as the nine ways that are associated with identity. To start with, he quotes identity as to “say something, do something, and are something.”. In other words that when we speak we design…

Jan Blommaert’s article Citizenship, Language, and Superdiversity: Towards Complexity focus on our understanding of citizenship, and how superdiversity has challenged this view. Altering concepts of community, language, and citizenship by analysing the integration process, and realising that the idea of citizenship has many centres of power and importance. Blommaert has challenged the complexity of dis-citizenship, investigating the many interconnected parts, including the problems faced by…

A rhetorical situation plays an important role in what an author writes in many ways. Rhetorical situations vary depending on who is speaking, who is being spoken to, and what is being spoken about. With that being said, the content of the writing will be significantly different. It is important to recognize the major role 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…

Linguistics is the study of language and how it is used. The main disciplines involved in this research is phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax and semantics. There are three different ways of forming morphologically complex words in English: inflection (dog-dogs, call-called), derivation (drink-drinkable) and compounding (sunglasses) (Bozix, Marslen-Wilson). This essay will focus on two of the morphological processes, inflection and derivation, and the similarities and differences between…

Module 1: Goals and Challenges of Multicultural Education To begin this class, we were assigned various readings to enrich or develop our minds on learning about Multicultural Education. The topic for Module 1 was to learn about the goals and challenges of Multicultural Education and to do this we were assigned the Carger book, Of Borders and Dreams. After revisiting and analyzing my discussion post, I believe one of the biggest challenges in Multicultural Education is the environment. It seemed…

ability and perception to capture the theme of freedom matters succinctly in their poems through the use of many aspects such as poetic elements, the metaphorical meaning and figurative language which also allows poets to exaggerate or alter specific linguistic points of interest. The three poems that I shall be looking at for this discourse is I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, Let America be America again with Langston Hughes and where the mind is without freedom by Rabindranath.…