Signing Exact English

Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui, when published in 1809 was meant to be a didactic tale, a moral piece of literature meant to entertain it’s decidedly English readers. However, as seen throughout the course of history, politics and comedy often go hand in hand. Edgeworth uses this idea to make some very interesting commentary about the state of the relationship between Britain and Ireland at the time, and what it meant to be truly British or Irish. Within the novel we meet the character of young Lord…

1.0 – Introduction According to Bloomsbury International (2014), “Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around four thousand new words are added to the English dictionary every year.” Language is a way for people to communicate with those around them, sharing notions and conventions of those from the same cultural backgrounds and spreading this so others can learn (Corder, 2013). The way language is communicated varies depending on the environment and…

continues to be protested, because we have the words isn’t and aren’t. He goes on to explain the word aren’t cannot be used in all three present tense form of the verb to be. However, ain’t can be used for the verb to be and to have. Stevens mentions the English language is always inclined to reduce complexity yet, ain’t continues to be…

Emma Sticklen Porter English 2, Pre-AP/GT-3 29 January 2018 Fahrenheit 451 Allusions Research 1. Allusion/Type: Juan Ramon Jimenez/ Literature A. Quote: “If they give you ruled paper, Write the other way” (Bradbury XVII). B. Explanation: In the Beginning of the story, this quote is an allusion to Juan Ramon a Jimenez, a Spanish poet. He earned the Nobel peace prize for literature in 1956. Jimenez was a well-known in the United States for his poetry. He wrote most of his poems in free verse,…

‘The Arrival’ is a movie which shows the relation between language and cognitive. The main character, Dr. Louise Bank is a linguist who has successfully proved the correlation between language and thoughts where she adopted the Sapir-Whorf theory. The main agenda in this movie is to show how two different languages communicate in such both sides can’t understand each other’s language. In my opinion, Dr. Bank together with Dr. Ian, however, have done their job very well in understanding the…

universities due to poor grades in Mother Tongue. Hence, I strongly believe that between the two languages, English and Mother Tongue, majority of the students have difficulty grasping the fundamentals in the latter. This could be due to the emphasis on speaking good English in Singapore to minimise the use of Singlish. As a result, the education system has led the students to focus more on English language and somehow neglected their Mother Tongue languages. Another reason…

Communication is one of the most important thing in today’s world. As we all know English is a global language. Knowing English helps us to communicate with everybody. Right from a small kid to an old person, from the shopkeeper to the company owner. English has risen to become the medium of instruction in most of the countries. English is one of the easiest language to learn and speak. It is one of the very few things in the world that is effective and easy to learn at the same time. Unlike…

Nowadays, English language has an important role of our life. Edward Finegan summarizes this by said that “ [t]hough Chinese is spoken by a greater number of people, English is spoken around the globe and has wider dispersion than any other language” ( Finegan 1989: 77) English has about 400 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers as Crystal and David explains (March 2008), there are many people use English languageand…

Language, a term that derived from the Latin word lingua meaning tongue, can refer to a variety of concepts such as word formation and speech used by people of different countries, areas or social groups. Language is possessed by human beings and is a clear indication of the difference in human communication system when compared to those of the animal kingdom. Language helps us as humans in so many ways. It enables us to collect and preserves knowledge so that we can pass it along to the next…

Communication with Ciro is going a lot smoother than I anticipated. Originally, I was worried that my supervisor would not speak much English and that it would be quite difficult for me to communicate with them. But, Ciro speaks English fairly well. Since English is not his first language, there are some obvious language barriers I have had to overcome. However, I believe we have decent communication whether it be over email or in person. I only meet with Ciro in person once per week, for…