Essays on Linguistics Page 4

The poem My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke is a two tone piece full of ambiguity. When readers approach this work they will arrive at one of two possible conclusionsthat this is an adults reflection of a memorable and joyous moment with his father or an unsettling description of child abuse, using waltzing as a…

How have spoken sounds acquired meaning? What is the nature of the connection between the sounds and what they are taken to represent? Language in a communication system has undergone a number of evolutionary changes. Language can be further explained by saying that it is a collection of sounds, sounds that have acquired meaning over…

Rizal lived in exile in faraway Dapitan, a remote town in Mindanao which was under the missionary jurisdiction of the Jesuits, from 1892 to 1896. This four – year interregnum in his life was tediously unexciting, but was abundantly fruitful with varied achievements. Beginning of Exile in Dapitan Steamer Cebu – brought Rizal to Dapitan…

The term assumes slightly different meanings in different contexts but in literature discourse means speech or writing normally longer than sentences which deals with a certain subject formally in the form of writing or speech. In other words, discourse is the presentation of language in its entirety while performing an intellectual inquiry in a particular…

My Pro-noun-ciations “Can I have ‘pink nini’?” I asked my parents. They started laughing. Little did I realize, my three year-old self had mixed my parents’ languages, Kannada and Telugu, with English forming my own hybrid. I had asked for a pink drink/juice called Rooh Afza and called in “pink nini” meaning pink water. But…

Phonetics is a scientific discipline that examines the sounds made by humans when speaking. It explains the mechanics and acoustic qualities of sounds and provides ways to classify them. Phonetics is comprised of three major branches. Articulatory phonetics: Studies the nature and limits of the human ability to produce speech sounds and describes the way…

Propositions are proposals, statements or concepts that either shows affirmation or negation. A proposition also seeks the truth or falsity of the claim. Categorical proposition differs from hypothetical propositions. In the categorical propositions there are three elements that can be distinguished and these are the subject term, predicate term and the copula. The subject term…

Sincere gratitude is hereby extended to the following who never ceased in helping until this paper is structured: First of all, to our parents who gave us time, financial support and permission to this project, without them this paper would not be done. To our beloved professor, Ma’am Anarina Nautan for guiding us and giving…

“There will come soft rains” is both the title for the short story by Ray Bradbury and the poem by Sara Teasdale and the poem is embedded in the short story. The poem and short story were written in 1920 and 1950 respectively, shortly after WWI and WWII. Thus it is not surprising that both…

It is a pleasant day. You are in a classroom having a nice discussion with your classmates. Everybody is laughing and enjoying the time together. The birds outside are chirping and the celestial bodies are in perfect alignment. Life is good. You kick back and place your sore, overworked feet on a nearby desk to…