Essays on Language

For as long as I can remember people (well English people at least) have been saying that to me. Pursing their lips and, to my mind, spluttering like fools trying to get me to comprehend the difference. I don’t. It all sounds the same to...

Technologies like mobile phones and internet has altered the lives of people and English language. Due to the invention of these technologies the way and style of communication is also changed. Now people are able to use rapid means of communication in the form of...

In Noam Chomsky’s paper “On the Nature, Use, and Acquisition of Language”, he discusses the study of language. Chomsky is coming from a rationalist point of view on language acquisition. He believes that the initial state of the language faculty is an input-output system that...

Language refers to an understood, systematic arrangement of signs, sounds, symbols and gestures used to communicate by human beings. It is a process everyone learns from birth and we continue to use it until our death as we all need to transfer information and knowledge...

In today’s Korean society, there have been a lot of controversies regarding the influence of the English language on the Korean language. There has been a lot of contact between the two languages as it embraces Englishsized Korean and deal with bilingual creativity involving Korean-English...

Although all human beings live in the same planet, the earth, one might think why people differ in many ways such as race, color, gender, language, values, and traditions. In fact, the answer was illustrated in the holy books, which affirmed that God has created...

Saraiki dialect is composed in Arabic content. In this content, the consonantal setting is obviously spoken to; however the vocalic sounds are spoken to (for the most part) by imprints or diacritics, that discretionary plus typically are not composed. Peruses be able to figure diacritics...

“My father spoke like a lion, but I could see in his heart he was worried and scared.” The author of I Am Malala used figurative language in her novel to paint a better picture and understanding in the minds if the audience of her...

Abstract This paper explores published articles from online resources (internet) that depict a probable solution to near real-time language translation in support of targeting, situational understanding, and/or information collection. As technology shrinks the distance between nationalities and cultures, language remains a barrier that still prevents...

Medical Terminology is language used to describe the human body, extensive and rich history in Latin and Greek languages. Both cultures merged, resulting in medical concepts regarding in disease treatment and containment. The medical terminology that we use today is to attribute to Hippocrates the...

For the time being, English pedagogical lexicography has changed dramatically. It is now a field of study that has been developing in the recent three decades for three reasons. First, there has been a growing interest in the concept of the lexicon and vocabulary learning,...

Semantic Similarity Semantic similarity is a metric defined over a set of documents or terms, where the idea of distance between them is based on the likeness of their meaning or semantic content as opposed to similarity which can be estimated regarding their syntactical representation...

A conjunctive adverb connects two independent clauses or sentences. Other adverbs modify or add to a word, but a conjunctive affects two sentences. The word “conjunctive” comes from the Latin for “join together. Conjunctive Adverbs in Action A conjunctive adverb brings together two complete thoughts....

New suspicious word updated New suspicious words that are not as of now in database are established with the assistance of code words discovery technique and will be included back in ontology. In this manner attitude utilized here is completely refreshed without even a second’s...

George Orwell’s 1984 portrays a dystopian society whose values and freedoms have been marred through the manipulation of language and thus thought processes. Language has become a tool of mind control for the oppressive government and consequently a tool of rebellion against the Party. Resultant...

Clustering of words is the method that is used to partition the sets of words into subsets of semantically similar words. Word clustering has crucial in many applications of natural language processing like POS tagging, spell checker, grammar checker, word sense disambiguation and many more....

Language barriers and cultural differences is a real issue for people. Children of immigrant families get a unique view and experience as a bilingual kid; they will become familiar with two different backgrounds. Amy Tan, Author of “Mother Tongue” uses her personal experiences with her...

In the essay “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan believes that everyone speaks different languages in certain settings and are labeled by the way they speak. The author interested by how language is utilized in our daily life” and uses language as a daily part of her...

Does everyone consider English as a single language? There are inferences that English is a single language, but in reality, people develop diverse versions of English as their mother tongue such that it is very uncommon to discover two people that speak the exact same...

The inability to communicate in fluent English is sometimes unfairly characterized as an incapacitation. At the point when individuals can’t impart their musings in familiar English, those listening to them fail to address them with the seriousness required. In some cases, it is seen as...

When we talk about what makes us who we are, what immediately comes mind? Our thoughts? Our values? Morals? Personalities? Our relationships? One’s identity is a difficult thing to define, because identity is unique from person to person as are one’s experiences. Language, as a...

Introduction Nowadays, many researchers suggest that children who are introduced to literacy in the early age are more likely to develop better language skills, broader vocabulary, and a higher level of abstract thinking in the future. For example, the verbal interaction during reading could be...

English is my life, always has been and always will be because there is something about the English language that speaks to my soul. My love affair with English dates back over 15 years, with my first experiences of reading. I feel like I am...

French has always been something I have been interested in since I was a child, because it is a big part of my life as a large number of my family are French. I have always loved France and the French language and find it...

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” Molière. When I came to the US, There were many obstacles in my life as Language and Gender Issues. I have never imagined my life here. When I came here, I faced a lot of...

Throughout history the English language has changed dramatically, and to this day continues evolving. The Modern English language spoken today is derived from Old English, which was spoken for centuries until around 1100. As time went on, grammar was impacted greatly by the transitions from...

The arguably most defining symbol of the novel “1984” by George Orwell is Newspeak. Newspeak was the new language established in Oceania and the code by which every one of its citizens lived by; this symbol reveals how when language and communication are restricted and...

I will use this site for student experiences with dialect. This journal explores the different experiences of students with dialects. It primarily focuses on their experiences in college, but it is applicable for all ages because these problems follow students for their entire academic lives....