Sociolinguistics

Anthropology is the study of the human race throughout time. It is linked to many other social sciences especially human biology, sociology, psychology, etc. Although they may have things in common, anthropology focuses mainly on the connections and interrelationships of all human aspects. Also, anthropology focuses on non-western people and cultures while other social sciences tend to concentrate more on American and European areas. This holistic perspective allows anthropologists to make their…

political activity per se our work contributes further to the studies that examine the role of, broadly defined, online communities for political debate. We take a critical approach and bring together analytical principles in line with Interactional Sociolinguistics and the Discourse Historical Approach (Wodak, 2006; Reisigl and Wodak 2009). In particular we aim to explore the ways in which the macro context becomes relevant to the situated here and now of talk and the argumentative strategies…

language, which was a practice employed by slave traders to prevent revolts, but they were simultaneously denied statutory access to schools, literacy or judicial relief in the courts” (3). In doing so these slave masters unknowingly provided the sociolinguistic conditions that helped the development of Ebonics as a language in the United States. Dr. Robert L. Williams coined the term Ebonics, in which he describes “Ebonics derives it form from ebony (black) and phonics (sound, the study of…

people accents, which they are unaware about because they have talked that way their entire life. Peter Trudgill’s thoughts on the way people speak are based off of two main factors, social location and social interaction. In Trudgill’s book, Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, he talks about the importance of how your social group and interactions can affect the way you speak and pronunciation…

There are few scholars that studying the major variety of taboo words and one of them is Chunming Gao. In his article entitled: A Sociolinguistic Study of English Taboo Language, he stated that the taboo language is made up from the taboo subjects that include, body functions about sex and excretion, private parts of the body, illness and death; words believed to be blasphemy; income, salary, age of ladies, etc. He then focus his study on the major types of the taboo languages that are bodily…

Molinaria and Mamelia (2010) argue that questions asked by teachers control and influence classrooms interactions through referring to some pre-specified points. Dillon (1998) also asserted that while students are the only seekers of knowledge in educational contexts, they do not ask any question at all. Teachers mainly tend to ask low level questions, whose answers to a large extent depend on the memorizing ability of students (Mehan, 1979). Then, encouraging students to ask questions is a good…

distinctive and unique artistic features. The irony dialogue between characters and the irony of the characters are extremely critical and sarcasm. This gives the audience a sense of dedication. However, his research mainly focuses on characters' fate, sociolinguistics, and translations. From the perspective of linguistics, especially the theory of speech act, there is relatively little research on the analysis of the linguistic features of the drama “The Flower Girl”. The “Flowers of Flowers”…

learners. This strategy of teaching speaking can save time and energy of the teacher and is more practical as far as it is close to the real communication and is strongly supported by many other disciplines, such as psychology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, etc. (Panjehkoubi, E. & Bonyadi A, & Rimani, F.…

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 Competence: emphasizes two elements which are cohesion and coherence of the whole text. – Strategic…

Cognitive Control Advantages in Elderly Bilinguals: Uncovering the Truth By: Sara Quinn-Hogan Cognitive control refers to the management of cognitive processes such as task flexibility, working memory, reasoning, planning, and problem solving. Some interesting findings have been reported suggesting that bilinguals have an advantage in cognitive control over monolinguals, and that this advantage persists into old age and might even slow cognitive decline. Since the population is aging and over…