Linguistics essays

This study will use discourse pragmatic approach. It is an interdisciplinary approach which integrates insights and analytic tools from discourse analysis, while maintaining a basic pragmatic orientation towards language use and meaning making ( Blum-Kulka and Hamo, 2006). Pragmatics is not the same as discourse analysis, but it would be impossible to analyze any text … Read more

English is a West Germanic language which was first spoken in early medieval England. The language is now on the third place of most spoken languages in the world and is an official language in almost 60 states. It is widely learned as a second language and is an official language of the European Union, … Read more

‘Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.’ – Edward Sapir Linguistics is the scientific study of language.There are three aspects to this study: language form, language meaning, and language in context (Wikipedia:Linguistics).There is a separate name for the study of words structures, their forms … Read more

Table of contents Introduction””””””””””””””””””””3 Sub question 1: ”””””””””””””””””””.4 Where did the English language come from? – What are the origins of the English language’? Old English ‘ Middle English ‘ Early Modern English ‘ Modern English Sub question 2: ”””””””””””””””””””.8 Where did the Australian English language come from? – History of the Australian English language … Read more

Language is defined, by the Oxford Dictionary (en.oxforddictionaries.com) as: ‘the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way or a non-verbal method of expression or communication’. Today there are six or seven thousand languages worldwide. According to popsci (www.popsci.com), over the course of … Read more

Introduction It must be stated that research has been carried out into the links between language and thought, a relationship so complex in nature that conclusions and ideas about this pair are difficult to form. This relationship is being explored but the quest into finding definite or fixed answers that go beyond the reach of … Read more

I. INTRODUCTION Does gender difference influence the language? Firstly, the language must be defined in order to answer the question. People do not care how the language works, how it affects our relationships, that is, people do not notice the power of language. It is an indispensable means of communication for people and language is … Read more

The Russian language is not an exception. The reflection of extra-linguistic factors in language is easier to demonstrate on the lexical level and, in turn, on vocabulary change. As new things, concepts, and activities appear, they need to be given names, which leads to change of the lexical system. Many of the new Russian words … Read more

Nietzsche In Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense, he defines truth as “a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened” (Nietzsche 250). This definition seems to reverse the culturally known order of doing things. Most would state that … Read more

Module PS3031 – Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives What is a human? Twentieth-century psychoanalyst Erich Fromm defined humans as, “the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve” (Fromm, 1947). This “problem” has been constantly defined or reinterpreted from biological, philosophical, evolutionary, and sociological perspectives. However, the key … Read more

1. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of Kachru’s ‘three circles’ model for conceptualizing World Englishes. Cite as least one country that does not fit neatly into this model and explain why is the case. (3.5 points) The division of English into English as a Native Language (ENL), English as a Second Language (ESL), and English … Read more

WHAT IS LANGUAGE Language is our primary form of communication and it made up of a series of words that convey a meaning. It is innate, no other creature seems to have it, and our understanding is not tied to a specific variety of language There is no other communication system like it and we … Read more

According to Em Griffin, Andrew Ledbetter and Glenn Sparks (2015), they provide us with Roland Barthes meaning of semiotics, which is described as “the study of social production of meaning from sign systems; the analysis of anything that can stand for something else” (p. 327). An example of the use of semiotics would be in … Read more