As we know that all human beings have their different language, abilities to communicate with each other. They communicate each other to share their ideas, views, hypotheses, desires and many more other things. And linguistics is the process of studying these all knowledge system in...
“During the time when the field of linguistics was thriving, linguists started recognizing its branches and acknowledging them. However, sociolinguistics was almost the latest of these branches to be recognized. This goes back to the complex nature of this field, as it overlaps with different...
Introduction Semantics is the field of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning in language. Linguistic semantics has been defined as the study of how languages organize and express meanings. Oddly, says R.L. Trask, some of the most important work in semantics was being done...
Language is seen to be more prestigious than dialect since it is used in the written forms and the more formal situations. Dialect is a regionally and socially distinctive variety of language, identified by a particular set of words and grammatical structures. Most people from...
Vocabulary acquisition plays a dominant role in English learning process and it is also highly interactive and complex. In other words, we can see that vocabulary acquisition has a strong correlation with a person’s English ability. Thus, for every English learners, it’s inevitable to experience...
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...
Paradigm is a set of language forms which are possible alternatives at every point of a selectional axis of language structure. Example: un-, im-, in-, dis- make a paradigm Inflectional paradigms refer to all word-forms which share the same grammatical meaning but differ in their...
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....
The second type is made according to the distribution of phrases, and the relationship between their constituents. The terms endocentric and exocentric are used for the phrases and its functions. Endocentric phrase is one which functionally equivalent to the one or more constituents. That is...
“The Language is the road map of a culture”, which tells us where the people came from and where they are heading. The way an individual speaks, hears, and reads influences society by impacting an individual’s cultural identity. Language is an imperative tool that manages...
Many parents, parents to be and even students studying Linguistics think about how infants acquire the human language. As a child grows older right after birth, they are filled with great determination and excitement to learn the different sounds, words and sentences to fully learn...
In English language there are eight parts of speech and they are: Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The parts of speech show the function of a word in context of its meaning and grammar in the sentence. Any word can perform...
English is the most widely used language in the world nowadays. As a part of Germanic languages, it is now spoken on six continents. Countries, which use English as a first language, include Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many other sovereign states....
“Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that didn’t stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. ” These words of Colson Whitehead in his novel “The Underground Railroad” perfectly describe the cruelty, black people faced not only in the cotton plantations in the...
The uses of anthropological findings have been used worldwide for various studies performed across numerous fields. Many such studies require in-depth and almost total immersion for data collection. The anthropological term for a study of this type is “ethnographic study,” (Ware et al. 2009). However,...
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...
One of the holy grails of cognitive science is the explanation of linguistic productivity: a model of the language system that allows people to store what they hear and creatively reuse it to novel ends. There has been extensive debate concerning how one should carve...
As an unpredictable human action, multiple factors both internal and external are complicatedly tried to understand, anticipate and enhance human performance. As such, it is not rational to concentrate on any one activity, mechanism, or variable as being responsible for all the internal and external...
The relationship between linguistics and translation and the way they advantage from each other are part of the objectives of this study. The essential idea, here, is that “between languages, human communication equals translation”. If we want to find a synonym for the study of...