Essays on Language and Linguistics

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...

1. 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...

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...

French phonology can also be termed as the sounding system in French. The French language has its own rules which determine the mode of pronunciation of most of its words. These rules are determined by the nature of their words and vowel to vowel, consonant...

Language is a complex and unique system that allows us to communicate with others. It also enables us to express how we are feeling, ideas we might have, and thought that we are thinking. We don’t only communicate through words, but also through body language...

Children around the world are very much exposed to different types of information due to the advancement of technology. This has become truer since the advent of the Internet. With a single click of a button, anyone can instantly get information on anything; from clothes...

Abstract The aims of this paper to highlight the conceal meaning of Imran khan speech in United Nation. I applied three model of Fairclough text analysis, practical analysis and social culture analysis. As we know that political speeches are contextual, inside political text hidden messages...

Generally speaking, discourse analysis is the study of language in use; how it functions and how meaning is created in different social contexts. There are various approaches to it; some of them look at the ‘structure’ of language, others examine the ‘content’ of language being...

Is English considered a single language? There are inferences that English is a single language, but in actuality, individuals foster distinct versions of English as their mother tongue. An essayist, Amy Tan recalls “all the Englishes [that she] grew up with,” all of which influence...

 In Malaysia, the dominant language in all media is always English. The dominant position, on the one hand, the cultural gap has been greatly reduced, on the other hand, many local languages have disappeared. As mentioned before, Bonggi language is rated as 6b (Threatened) which...

In current era, language death is known as a modern disease. This phenomenon has its own components, which undergo from birth to death. Moreover, nowadays is, no doubt, the age of variations, rapid progresses and extreme activities. One especially outstanding features of this change is...