Category: Linguistics 473

The present paper aims at explaining the distribution of word pairs in the English language based on different types of similarities they may have. Every word in every language has three different aspects that do not depend on each other. These three aspects are pronunciation or phonetics, spelling or graphical representation, and meaning or semantics.…

Pico Iyer in his essay draws the attention of the audience to the importance of punctuation in our life, to the value of commas, in particular. To create the audiences motivation for the study of the article, the author explains the role of a comma in our life that is often underestimated. To show our…

In Beyond the Polite Smile, Janice Pang compares the Cantonese dialect of Chinese and English and her experiences with them. The essay takes a look at the authors experience with both: one language is native to her family, while the other is the language of the public. The difference is not purely linguistic: the language…

Table of Contents Introduction Background and Definition Implication for Second Language learners Conclusion References: Introduction The most important reason for learning a new language is to convey information in a certain language. Acquisition of language skills does not entail the use of extensively conscious grammatical regulations or hard drilling as many would think. It instead…

Language may be regarded as the basic tool for communication and shaping of identity of individuals and the society. Thus, language plays a major role not only in societal development. Moreover, certain languages may have relatively longer explanations in their expression, while others are precise and straight to the point. This paper attempts to consider…

Introduction Language in all its aspects is one of the most significant topics of study in linguistics. Scholars of this science dedicate their lives to exploring the emergence, development and modern stage of existence of the language. It can be explained by the fact that language is one of the main features that distinguish human…

A Letter to a Friend Hi, Paul! Im sorry I havent been writing for a while, but I was really up to my neck in work. But what happened today made me so upset that I just need someone to see me through this crisis. I know youll have some words of advice for me,…

When another language dies, we lose a piece of our shared legacy, the ethnosphere. All people on Earth live in the ethnosphere, which is a sum of total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness (Davis, 2003). Therefore, we are all…

The way I see it, one thing to take away from Phil Waknells TED Talk is not necessarily how to make a good presentation but what a presentation is in the first place. In the beginning, Waknell states that, at some point in life, each and every person has to present, with or without slides.…

For students who study a second language, there may be many different difficulties. This may be due to the fact that knowledge of the first language can interfere with the educational process. Thus, education providers should clearly understand these barriers and skillfully find ways to limit them. The main aspects of the intervention are reading,…