Linguistics

enables us to convey and interpret messages and to negotiate meanings interpersonally within specific contexts” (p.36). It includes four sub-competences which are interconnected and they cannot develop separately. These four competences are: _ Linguistic Competence: is related to language knowledge such as spelling, structure and pronunciation. – Sociolinguistic (pragmatic competence): implies an understanding of the way of using the language properly in certain social contexts. – Discourse…

term Ebonics in 1973 by psychologist Robert L. Williams, a now obsolete terminology, to the modern portrayal of African American Vernacular English, mass media presentation of linguistic differences in the black community has taken a particularly negative stance. The term Ebonics was first used to describe “certain linguistic patterns and codes that house a distinguishable and distinctive grammatical and lexicological base employed by some African Americans” (Daniel 74-5). Since its conception,…

The first benefit is it can develop student’s language skills, such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The second benefit is it can enhance students’ linguistic knowledge, like grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. The third benefit is it can give a relaxed learning by doing some activities through English pop songs. Not only students but also teachers who will got the advantages of using this teaching…

Finding speaker’s lived experiences and emotions tapping and coining as a major concern, the study represents and processes various valuable experiences of the protagonist as a part of linguistic analysis. Acquisition of communication in individual narrative is achieved through three issues subjectivity, truth claims and representation of memories. Acquisition of language used there in and research through critical reflectivity…

of fact, Languages are regarded to have the ability of controlling human thoughts and world perception. Actually language developed by people as a way of communication. Languages affected thought during the different ages. Gender is regarded as linguistic instrument to do this purpose. Some studies showed that although Spanish and German speakers have the same words with identical referents assigned different genders in the respective languages evoke different ideas in their perceptions.…

The varieties of Zapoteco are defined by geographical locations and linguistic diversity. This is important to have in mind, because governmental and academic publications often do not specify which variety of Zapoteco their worked is focused on or generalize all of these varieties under the big umbrella term Zapoteco. On…

a number of times in English classes, but no one ever called them that. They were always just prefixes, suffixes or root words. It wasn’t until almost too late before my first linguistics midterm that I clued in to how root words and suffixes translated into linguistic…

This study examines discursive features in a narrative of a convicted rape offender. In particular, this study focus on the ways in which the rapist, Nathan constructs his version of an account of the rape incident. The data for the analysis was extracted from the transcripts of group therapy sessions in a prison-based Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) in Britain between 1995 and 1996. The analysis suggested that his discourse is built on two main practical ideologies in recasting his…

therefore seemed most appropriate, as it links social constructs, such as neo-colonialism, for example, to how the French language functions ideationally and interpersonally and to how the arguments on both sides are structured. By integrating this linguistic, quantitative evidence into an overall Critical Discourse Analysis, the study allows for a qualitative evaluation of the independence issue, especially in terms of the ideologies or Foucauldian discourse formations that are obfuscated in…

projecting their desired identity. Accommodation to a certain group of people or individual during speech will increases the solidarity between the speaker and the interlocutor but does not reflect the individual identity of the speaker who undergo linguistic accommodation. In a courtroom situation, a male witness was described to have a different conversational strategy from being assertive to being more passive, and use more features of women’s speech. This change is incited by the context. As…