Essays on Linguistics

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...

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...

Every people in the world know at least one language, their mother tongue. With the help of language we can express ourselves, our thoughts and we can communicate with others. There are several rules about how to use a language or how to produce a...

The Evolution of a Word The ability to communicate seems to come naturally to humans; it is a trait that is fairly unique to mankind. Parents teach their children to speak, and children learn without realizing how extraordinary the art of language really is. However,...

In this text, I will discuss what kinds of evidence there are that humans have abilities that are specific to acquiring and using language, as distinct from an ability to communicate or use various kinds of vocal or other body gestures. The human language is...

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...

Between 1939 and 1945, the world witnessed the deadliest war in Human History. Seventy to eighty-five million people died during this war that opposed the Allies (the United States of America, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China) to the Axis (the Nazi Germany,...

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,...

Introduction In the field of Psycholinguistics, language acquisition is a sensitive topic which distinguished scientists have argued upon. In (1957) in book B.F. Skinner – one of the pioneers of behaviorism- proposed one of the earliest scientific explanation concerning the language acquisition topic; his theory...

Languages have a positive impact on individuals thoughts and self-identity because it helps us to communicate with one another. Language is a key to all of us, which we use to reflect our thoughts, to express our feelings, and to teach our cultures to others....

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...

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 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 this paper we aim to compare the grammar of English and Urdu which are the most widely spoken languages in Pakistan. In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that governs the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language....

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...

American Usage Making Life Easier Word usage is part of everybody’s life. Whether it is through texting, letters, or face to face conversations, we use words. When we need help, we go to a dictionary but each dictionary is different. There are liberal and conservative...

In today’s society people are consistently voicing their feelings, opinions, and emotions in effort to try and enlighten others about what they believe is right and wrong. Many of these opinions that are voiced are concerns are topics that closely relate to our society and...

Proverbs are a vital form of communication within the Ibo culture. They are sayings that have their roots in folklore and are typically passed down from generations to generations. Proverbs aid the Ibo in defending their thoughts and opinions, however in the hands of Chinua...

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...

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...

David Mamet’s short, two-character play Oleanna deals with the shifting linguistic power dynamics between professor John and student Carol over the series of three separate meetings. Both characters continually trail off, interrupt one another, and digress from the primary issue at hand: Carol’s confusion in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Internet has transformed our perspective of the world. It has created a vast amount of online tools and sources that are helping people to get all the information they need more quickly and easily. Due to this fact, the number of people learning languages...

Introduction The neuroscience contributions applied to the English class suggest that the English teacher should be able to explore and use multisensory teaching in a social and emotional environment. The teaching of English requires a mixture of news and being flexible and nice so the...

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...