Sociolinguistics

Culture learning leads to awareness of cultural practices both in individualistic and collectivist societies. Acceptance or rejection of others’ way of life depends on individual learners who may be greatly influenced by their own culture, language and religion. Cultural knowledge and awareness through direct or indirect exposure via learning materials may groom the learners who later may have to travel to the target language countries for study, work or leisure. To withstand culture shock, L2…

Introduction Similarities and Differences One similarity between L1 and L2 learners is that they follow a similar pattern of development despite some exceptions and variations among learners. For example, how to make basic sounds, then words, phrases and sentences. Both go through a silent period while they are listening to and learning language. According to Ipek (2009), L1 learners go through a silent stage when they are trying to make sense of language and L2 learners, who do not comprehend…

“Living in China an honor & privilege” was a topic published very recently by Global Times about how to adapt to loving in another country (Cormack, 2016). It talked about a few things the writer learned living in China. Recognizing that Chinese people are more into showing off while British are more introverted; Chinese have guests-oriented household rules while British prefer property ownership. They can consider each other impolite when one shows off and one implies rules on guests. According…

Language is defined by Merriam Webster as “The words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community”. Language is one of the most powerful tools in human communication. Through words, people shape their identities, and via speaking, people can express attitudes, feelings, and experiences to one another. Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” (1990) as well as Deena Kamel’s Toronto Star article “A Language Without Limits” (2008) both express ideas involving…

A Comparative Analysis of a Casual Conversation and a Formal Interview INTRODUCTION In the following paper, I provide a comparative analysis of a casual conversation and a formal interview based on an approach to ethnography of communication as discussed by Saville-Troike (1997). After a brief review of related studies of these two communicative event types, I present the focus and the framework of the current study. Next, I present a comparative analysis of the two communicative events using…

At the point when many people consider the linguistic use they simply consider how our sentences are organized, and sincerely after grade school they have no idea how to truly put into syntax. Many individuals detest language structure on account of how much linguistic use was constrained upon them growing up, I was one of those individuals. When I got to school, I understood, that I give careful consideration to linguistic use than I suspected. Punctuation is truly essential to the English…

Language use in all its forms remain to be the most important communication tool for and used by people to communicate. It helps us to reflect the daily happenings in a society, but also has various functions to strengthen as well as maintain social existence among people. From such a view, language mirrors the gendered perspectives and can also impact and contribute to changing people 's perception of gender over time. Men and women on the other hand are the main bodies in social activities.…

Russ Rymer, distinguished author and freelance journalist, describes in his article Vanishing Voices the threat of a dominant culture in a region eliminating minority cultures and languages through the rapid rise of globalization and technology (Rymer, 2012, pg. 6). The minority population of second generation children in Canada and the United States also face a bicultural identity crisis as a result of being submerged in a different dominant culture in which their old heritage culture (HC)…

Tupac Shakur & Black Vernacular CSU Chico Nicholas Pedroza There has been widespread debate on the creation and use of Ebonics, or black vernacular within the education system, it has not been inputted into the schools, but nonetheless the use of it is very popular and the reason for that are rappers. Black vernacular is widely spoken throughout the black community so when rappers rap in black vernacular and whatever they rap about the people can relate to it. Stated by Matthew Feldman,…

Within western culture, gender is assigned by means of sex assessment which dictates everything they should and should not do. Gendered interaction is enforced starting from birth—messages of gender and its expectations guide children as they grow, drawing influences from the media, religion, and community. Failure to follow the expectations of an assigned designation can result in children forced to play with toys and engage in occupations that they do not enjoy to avoid social ridicule and…