Category: Language

Introduction This paper is going to discuss the use of impoliteness in the YouTube comments of a video advertisement. Impoliteness can be best summarised as behaviour that is face-aggravating in a particular context (Locher & Bousfield, 2008). YouTube is an online platform where users can post and comment on videos with a user-name. Impoliteness is…

Immigrants should speak English in their own homes to help prevent ‘schizophrenic’ rifts between generations of their families as almost a third of British Asian speak only their native language. It is ironic that David Blunkett is demanding immigrants to speak English, yet in my household the language English was not allowed. Despite having a…

Introduction The word transgender has faced several variations throughout the years. However, it is solely now, in the 21st century, that this concept is finally self-addressed as a relevant matter. It is intriguing the history and origins behind the term used to describe someone whose, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, sense of personal identity…

People, as the center of the world have a lot of control over things, and these things are developed around peoples preference, thus, can reflect the social trends of societies that people live in. Social media language is one example of these. It was developed from the formal English that people read and write with,…

Abstract Indonesian is the identity and identity of the Indonesian people. Indonesian plays an essential role in all aspects of life. Today is the millennial era, a time of increasing use and familiarity with communication, media, and digital technology. This has an impact on the development of Indonesian. The current situation is that the function…

As shown above, language can provide an inside look at how the people in that language tell directions. However, this is only one aspect of the Cree culture and language can be utilized to show other aspects. When looking into the Cree language and how it is used within society, there is a part of…

According to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the essence of social media is to recreate a town square environment in the digital world for people to engage in conversations similar to a traditional city center (Dwoskin, 2019). Thus, people can create a profile on social media that mirrors the reputation of a normal person…

Today, social media plays a tremendous role in enhancing language learning. Social media seeks out attention. There are lots of different types of social media which includes social networking like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc., media sharing networks like Instagram, Snapchats, YouTube and writing reviews and online forum includes Quora, Reddit, Blogs and Vlogs.An average…

Introduction The internet originates from the early 1980s when it initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks. The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marks the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet. Where writing was once a solitary activity, it has now become…

Code mixing (CM) refers to the integration of two or more languages in speech. It is frequently observed in user-generated content on various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, especially from multilingual users. This present study attempts to analyze the code-mixed text collected from various articles and papers. Introduction Code-Switching and its…