Pidgin

The local saying “You think you know, but you don’t know,” or, the pidgin version “You tink you know, but you know nuting,” is a good description of what I thought I knew about my friend Jonalyn Kaufmann, who I’ve known for the past ten years. I thought I knew Jonalyn well, but not enough to know where she came from, who her parents were or recognize her childhood struggles that led to her triumphs that sparked her determination through life. Through this interview, I have come to know more…

Question 1 It is important that everyone go through the Erikson’s eight stages of life. The reason being is that two forces will push a person from stage to stage which are known as biological maturation and social expectations (Crain, 2011). The person will move from one stage to the next as a result of these forces whether they have mastered the previous stage or not. A prime example is a girl experiencing difficulty at the industry stage because she is not prepared for the identity crisis…

http://media.edusites.co.uk/article/understanding-media-language/ 6. Jon Reed (2014) How social media is changing language retrieved at 29/11/2015 from : http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/06/social-media-changing-language/ 7. Kateřina Valová (2006) Pidgin Languages and Their Phonology, retrieved at 25/11/2015 from : http://is.muni.cz/th/75422/ff_b/Pidgin_Languages_and_Their_Phonology.pdf 8. Monica Stott, What Is The Relationship Between Language And Communication? retrieved at 27/11/2015…

The Impact of the French on Louisiana Dialects In Louisiana culture, the Creole and Cajun dialects dominate the language. In Connie Eble’s article “The Louisiana Purchase and American English”, she states that the event that has had the biggest influence on the dialects today is the Louisiana Purchase. In December of 1803, The Louisiana Purchase took place and America grew. Up to that point, areas in Northern America belonged to whomever was controlling the land at that time. In 1762, the…

exactly Polari is, and what it signified to its speakers. “Language,” while being perhaps the easiest and most accessible term, fails to encompass Polari entirely – so do, for that matter, a variety of other phrases, including: jargon, argot, dialect, pidgin, sociolect, lexicon, and creole, though Polari expresses features of all of these classifications (Baker 12-13). Rather, it seems, that Polari coincides most accurately with anti-languages, which can be most accurately surmised as languages…

“White” Like Me At the heart of American culture is the concept of racism; a continuous cycle perpetuated through years of injustice by slavery, violence, segregation, and hatred. Much like the symbolic “tree of life”, racism’s roots extend deep into the earth, drawing sustenance from each member of society. Yet in that survival tactic, it unconsciously steals a little more from one side—this is white privilege. “White privilege” is a mere social construction by which the dominant white…

Beginning from the 17th century, world trade started to expand and people interact with each other by sharing knowledges and different cultures. However there exist two opposing views of the impact that the world trade imposed upon us. Vermeer states that the world trade was one in which people of different origins and race have come to unite and cooperate. For Rediker, on the other hand, the 18th century world of trade caused the separation and alienation along class and race lines by the…

The Concept of home and abroad Robert Louis Stevenson was an important and renowned literary celebrity of his time. He was born in 1850 in Edinburgh and belonged to an upper middle class family. His father Thomas Stevenson was a well-known leading lighthouse engineer in the Victorian era while his mother was from a lawyers and clergymen family. In 1857 he with his parents moved to 17 Heriot Row a four story Georgian town house in Edinburgh’s new town. Stevenson had a prosperous life different…

Theoretical Literature Review Cultural Imperialism Theory The is the evolution of different methods, and theoretical models for the study of language endangerment and what causes it. In this project, there will be a review of two theories namely, Cultural Imperialism and Technological Determinism.Cultural imperialism is a communication theory made popular by Herbert Schiller in 1973.It talks about the domination of the media by Western nations which has an adverse impact on the culture of other…

When planning a trip to Paris, there are certain expectations as to where you’re likely to go. The Eiffel Tower is at the tip-top of this very long list. Other items would include Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, possibly Versailles if you want to explore a bit. But one of the biggest draws is the magnificence of the Musée de Louvre. The Louvre is awe-inspiring, gorgeous, and gigantic. One tidbit I gathered on the boat ride through the Seine was that it was about a kilometer…