Essays on Language Learning

The distinction between the French words, langue (language or tongue) and parole (speech), enters the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics with Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, which was published posthumously in 1915 after having been collocated from student notes. La langue denotes the abstract systematic principles of a language, without which no meaningful utterance…

Language is a good tool for expressing the speaker’s feelings. But it differs from another one in innumerable ways, just because of the ways people talk, it does not necessarily mean they think differently. The way you speak says a lot about you. Language can help mould the way we think, but just in its…

Jamie Oliver’s style of speech is very different to many of his contemporaries: he uses his distinctive style to present himself as a down to earth, friendly TV chef. Oliver is the only person talking in his transcripts because he is cooking and explaining his actions for the TV show. The fact that he is…

Functional Re-evaluation of Grammatical Forms in Context. Problem of intending ambiguity in a linguistic communication Plan 1. The significance of ambiguity 2. Lexical ambiguity 3. Structural ambiguity 4. Semantic ambiguity 5. Re-evaluation of Verb. Aspect significance 6. Meaning of class of Voice 7. Class of Tense 8. The most controversial class – Mood 9. Synonymy…

The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva states that there are over 6,000 languages globally and unfortunately, around half of them will disappear by the end of the century. In “Preserving Language Diversity,” it is explained that this decline in linguistic variety puts smaller indigenous cultures at risk of losing their unique group identity. However,…

Abstraction The intent of this paper is to determine how new information takes nucleus statement places in the succeeding clauses and how these participants are tracked throughout the discourse. This survey will demo that in Chabacano-Caviteno, ( a ) lexicalisation is the most outstanding mention tracking device employed to track a given information, ( B…

1) What is FedEx’s “Common Language” of Quality? Is it Important for a company to establish a “Common Language“ of Quality? If so, Why? FedEx common language of quality is People –Service-Profit (PSP). It articulates that when people are placed firs, service and profit follow. Another would be its QIP program which also articulates that…

The issue of language ability being innate or learned is in essence, a special case of the nature vs. nurture debate.  Some people believe that language is a biological ability, or a gift from God that is wired into our being. Others believe that it is an acquired skill or that the ability evolved over…

She can’t speak NY other foreign languages but she traveled to England twice. Nowadays she is on her maternity leave and she is eager to learn English as far as she has got some time for it now. Also Natalie wants to gain some more experience and knowledge of English to master some skills that…

Languages, dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today, and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`, ? Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main…