Mixed language

English and Kazami is a native speaker of Japanese; each speaks the other’s language well enough to manage an everyday conversation, though with some effort and with a foreign accent. Karen and Kazami would like their children to be bilingual, but they are not sure whether this is a good idea or how to achieve it. Give them your advice. My suggestion to Karen and Kazami is for them to continue to speak their native languages as well as the others’; their children will pick up on it and learn…

Linguistic complexity is commonly defined as the variedness and elaborateness of language production (Ellis, 2003). The definition resembles the philosophical definition of complexity as a function of the number of a system’s constituent elements, the variety of these constituents, and the elaborateness of their inter- relations (Rescher, 1998). Accordingly, the measurement of linguistic complex- ity involves quantitatively measuring the number and nature of linguistic sub- components and the…

many other Latinos living in the United States who struggled to find their place in society and a language to speak freely without feeling fear and embarrassment afterwards. She talks about how throughout her life the language she used was suppressed in various ways and forms as she was forced to assimilate to the dominant English language. Anzaldúa also discusses some examples of how the Spanish language changed and evolved in since the first Spanish colorizations began in the region. Overall,…

relevant context. Differences between oral and written language have specific applicability to many types of practical linguistic works, each style has its own characteristics; they are different text types and consequently different discourses. Therefore, it is not wise to choose both of them sporadically in researches. These variations are as a result of different texts and genres They can be mixed with each other in settings where spoken language occurs in the form: presentations, messages,…

correlated to the phenomenon of accommodation theory. Dialect Levelling occurs when the differences between regional varieties of two languages over time are reduced. This causes the disappearance of distinctive features while new features that emerge are adopted by speakers over the regional area. So this phenomenon focuses mainly on the variation between two languages of specific areas. The accommodation theory has as its main subject speakers and the reason why these naturally converge…

Being able to speak more than one language gives us a greater opportunity to succeed, especially in the United States because it’s one of the most diverse countries in the world. Being bilingual or trilingual opens many doors for people to be able to progress, but some people feel that multilingualism is detrimental to the American Culture and that the only language that should be spoken is English. However, there are also people such as Warren Blumenfeld, who believe that multilingualism is a…

1- In the article “the nomads of language” the author Ariel Dorfman claims that people from Colombian villages took their ancestors’ bones as a reminder of their history and to remain connected to the people who generated them. Until now people when they migrate, they could take their family pictures with them. According to Dorfman, not all people carry their ancestors’ bones to the new land, but all of them carry their own language to the migrant country. Language conveys people’s history,…

by many of its residents. 4 Instead, many people prefer the term “salad Bowl”. 5 They use this term to describe U.S. society. 6 The society will soon be predominantly nonwhite. 7 “Melting pot” implies that nationalities, like the ingredients in a mixed green salad, retain their cultural identities.…

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…

hispanohablantes de los Estados Unidos que son segunda or tercera generations often develop their own language among the English and Spanish languages. In most of these second and third generations, Spanish is commonly spoken in the house and English is learned through schooling or just interactions with other English speaking people in one's community. A stigma that derives from this homemade language is that the person who speaks Spanglish might not know enough Spanish or they might not know…