Essays on Language and Linguistics

In an on-going process that serve the purpose creating a South African society where learners can realise their potential, our Education system has undergone fundamental transformation. However, despite these changes, the education system of this country seems to remain hampered with rigid unwavering language policies...

This paper is aimed to analyze effects of Hindi dubbed cartoons on the behavior and language mix-up of children in Dhaka city keeping in sight that the overexposure of Hindi cartoons watched by children in daily routine. Children are becoming more and more obsessed and...

To begin with, educator is a person who teaches and inspires others.  An educator teaches students in a school or other learning environment. Some of the roles and responsibilities of an educator is to prepare and present lesson plans, supervise students in a classroom, grading...

We are very proud that, for the first time, the new constitution affirms equality between South African languages, especially Khoi. After this, the San community will be the most exciting in many years. The experience of humiliation has been trampled on. Former South African President...

The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age. You can never be too old to learn something new. There could be many reasons that lead to the need to learn new languages but, the advantages are vast. My mother tongue...

The word multilingualism can be used to refer to the use or maintenance of more than one language in a certain context. In this regard it may refer to the fact that many languages are spoken in South Africa but also that many South Africans know more...

In one way or another every one of us is a victim of the most untransformed policy in this university. To those of you who deny this, comparing to other universities, how diverse is our student body? What about staff diversity? Have you ever paid...

Considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, The Catcher in the Rye continues to affect readers around the world since its publication in 1951. While the vulgarity and adult matters in the book are undoubtedly inappropriate for young students, its underlying themes...

Introduction Where there are people, there will be the use of language – languages which may be different. With the interaction of these people, their languages will also come into contact, and this can produce a variety of results. The outcome of such situations, however,...

Introduction In recent years, exploring the deep roots from which contact languages, such as pidgins and creoles, had grown become a subject of interest for many scholars in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, and anthropology. Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), a German linguist, was undoubtedly the first...

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist and philosopher and a founder of the field of cognitive science. He has a nature theory that children are prewired for the development of language, and the environment in which they live triggers its emergence. According to Chomsky children...

Language is a common skill to all human beings. However, when there are 6,500 different languages it divides humanity culturally and mentally. Experts who focus on language have pondered the extend of this divide and proposed that if there are different languages it is bound...

The Definition of Syntax According to Chomsky “syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages”. The syntactic theory is aiming to depict how people create sentences by combining words, concerned with the speaker’s knowledge of how...

I decided to write my essay on British Sign Language being taught in school. This is because both of my parents are profoundly deaf which means they can’t hear at all, another reason I decided to do this topic is because I have realised how...

Genie was strapped to a potty chair and neglected by her father. Her father kept her and her mother in a ‘protective custody’ where they were ‘virtual prisoners’ to his gross interpretation of a habitable and nurturing environment. Consequently, Genie grew up, neglected and socially...

Introduction As we are language teachers, we are the first ones who need to understand the approach in genre-based writing. In the following section on this paper, it aims to identify, describe and analyze the features of the given text. The literature review will be...

An essential piece of our everyday lives is one that often goes without much forethought of its impact in our lives; language. The prime method of communication between individuals is language. Whether you’re evoking your angriest emotions to express yourself, or channeling your inner happiness...

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the benefits of being bilingual for a person’s cognitive development. Unlike the understanding of bilingualism during the early 20 century, where nationalistic policymakers and researchers considered bilingualism interference and hindrance of the cognitive function that negatively affected...

The French language is a part of the Indo-European language family. Before the evolution of French, history has shown that French has descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire during the colonization of Gaul. The Celts had been lived in Gaul for years...