Linguistics Essays

The purpose of this piece is to give an insight into charity shopping using my personal experience, giving an alternative to vintage shops, using tips on to what to expect and why the reader should try charity shopping . My audience is for people interested in fashion, shopping and mainly saving money this could appeal […]

The passage is a transcript of a real interview with a man about his childhood as an orphan. This links to Passage which is an extract from Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ in which orphan Jane is talking to another girl at the school she’s just started. The link between the two passages, therefore, is the […]

Wilfred Owen is the narrator of ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, a poem aimed at the people who were not actively involved in the war, fighting on the bloody battlefields, and therefore do not have first-hand experience of the horrors. He is writing from a period of time after the war, looking back in retrospect and […]

For our AS course work we were given the task of creating a short story for a target audience of our choice. The short story that I have decided to write is aimed at younger children, more specifically children within the region of five to eight years old. Having a younger brother myself, who is […]

The section “Back Home Contemplation” represents an important section n of the entire novel. It pulls together the idea of the black woman from Africa to the Caribbean. It embodies all the experiences, emotions and feelings by showing her memories of the childhood she experienced and sharing them with the reader. “Back Home Contemplation” discusses […]

This essay intends to compare and contrast two stories: ‘The Withered Arm’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Indian Camp’ by Ernest Hemingway. The focus will primarily be on the structure and language of both novels. ‘The Withered Arm’ was written in 1888, while ‘Indian Camp’ is a post twentieth-century work from 1946. Both stories revolve around […]

The first evidence of writing appears at the end of the 4th. mill. BC. in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. In both areas the forms of the writing were originally pictographic, where a head meant a head, a bowl meant a bowl. Probably it was in the Sumerian part of Mesopotamia that writing was first invented. […]

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill dramatises contemporary life in 1980s Britain depicting a time of change and shifting priorities and expectations as far as women were concerned within society. The period was characterised by Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Yet unlike the country’s political agenda, Theatre was not driven by a female force. […]

Dr. Montessori explains that language development begins with infants’ innate ability to absorb small pieces of speech, which lay the groundwork for further linguistic advancement. The child initially learns that sounds have significance and later recognizes different parts of speech. While the child naturally develops oral skills, parents and teachers must offer opportunities for similar […]

According to Inflectional Morphology, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury found it advisable, even though the Duck was unsure of what he found. The Mouse replied, rather crossly, that they should already know what “it” refers to. The Duck in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland claimed that “it” usually refers to a frog or a […]

Nonverbal communication includes different forms such as eye contact, facial expression, posture, arm and hand gestures, and head positions. Usually, we focus on what others say, but for some people, our presence also communicates something. Our nonverbal signals go along with our words whether we realize it or not. If we show uninterested body language, […]

Kolomna State Teacher-Training Institute Report on the course: Introduction to the Contemporary English Philology Theme: Lexicography as a science of dictionary-making Student: Gavrilin M Year 1 Term 2 Faculty of foreign languages Group 11/2 Teacher of a foreign language: Akhrenova N. A. Kolomna 2007 Contents Introduction 1. Lexicography as a science 2. Dictionary: notion, functions, […]

Culture and Language The power of language to reflect culture and influence thinking was first proposed by an American linguist and anthropologist, Edward Sapir (1884–1939), and his student, Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941). The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis stated that the way we think and view the world is determined by our language (Anderson & Lightfoot, 2002; Crystal, 1987; […]

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically from the rest of life . Lewis Thomas. The Lives of a Cell. Language is many things – a system of communication, a medium for thought, a vehicle for literary expression, a social institution, a catalyst for nation building. All human […]

Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition consists of five main hypotheses: the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis, the Monitor hypothesis, the Natural Order hypothesis, the Input hypothesis, the Affective Filter hypothesis. the Monitor hypothesis The Monitor hypothesis explains the relationship between acquisition and learning and defines the influence of the latter on the former. The monitoring function is […]

INTRODUCTION Based on the discussion of the validity of Noam Chomsky’s perception of Universal Grammar (UG), some past ; current researches which maintain ; contest Chomsky’s UG from different areas are represented. The essay focuses on: 1) Chomsky’s Universal Grammar in brief, in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) context; 2) Evidences supporting Chomsky’s UG – views […]

Being honest, from the very beginning of the movie my notions were challenged when I noticed that this video was going to be silent. It only happened to me for a couple seconds and then it became obvious to me that there was no other way to make a video about this matter than soundless. […]

The main theme of this poem is the deep anger left by the poet at the behavior of the majors and generals during World War I. Subject Matter: Siegfried Sassoon was a soldier who fought in World War I. he witnessed the horrendous slaughter of thousands of young solider on the battlefield. much of this […]

A linguistic analysis of humor: A look at Seinfeld by Elizabeth Magnotta and Alexandra Strohl from the University of Montana. Using the Incongruity Theory of humor (Attardo, 2001; Morreall, 1983; Schwarz, 2010) along with the Interactional Sociolinguisitic Methodology of discourse analysis, this study examines the different incongruous elements utilized in Seinfeld, including moral short-comings, ignorance, […]

 Introduction Approaching the issue The task of setting out (to use a neutral word) the goals of a human activity may be approached in a variety of ways depending on conditions such as who is involved in the activity and who has the power to determine the goals. In the case of the goals of […]

Critique the “Top-Down and Bottom-Up” Models of Reading and Outline Their Relevance To Reading Instructions Sherry Ann Osborne The ability to read is thought to be fundamentally important for functionality in our modern world. Nations measure the success of educational institutions by the ability to produce highly literate citizens and funding for many educational institutions […]

There are 2 official written forms of Norwegian- Bokmal aka “book langauge” and Nynorsk aka as “new norweigian”. There is no official sanctioned standard of spoken Norwegian. Most Norwegians choose their own dialect according to different circumstances. No one dialect is right or wrong but adds to the tradition of Norwegian. For example, a beginner […]