Linguistics

Languages Samu Thomas sthoma62@uic.edu ANTH 100 David Reid Mon 11-11:50 Introduction There are nearly around 6000 languages spoken in the word. When a language is endangered, there is a huge impact on the culture and community associated with it. Linguistic Anthropologists, researchers have over the years have been trying to study and learn about these endangered languages, and how it benefits them in different ways. On the other hand, the endangered language speakers have a different cultural and

is cross-linguistic influence. Cross-linguistic influence is a term used to describe the various ways that certain language systems in the brain interact with and influence one and other. It explains how they can affect either the linguistic performance or the linguistic development of the learner, if not both. This most commonly refers to two separate languages, for example the effect that French has on a native speaker trying to learn another language such as Italian.

Structuralism and its different approaches to literature Structuralism was developed in France in 1950’s as an approach of reading literary texts. Structuralism seeks to understand that no element can be understood separately. It attempts to understand a work of art in the context of the larger structures they are part of. Structuralism is a way of thinking and activities which is chiefly concerned with the perceptions and descriptions of structures. In this regard, Terence

De Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, almost the entire reading from our assigned texts that is, has conventionally been summarized on page 850. Overall, Sassuare explains his analysis of language by describing it as a system of signs and comparing/contrasting words in a language to other words. He says that words are what they are because of what they're not, and language wouldn’t exist without sound-image. Saussure analized language as a system of linguistic signs that he used to explain

terms of substituting one word for another with an apparently different meaning (Ritchie, 2013). Although metaphor was once considered as a stylistic issue, a rhetoric device, a poetic reference or decorative speech, now it has been extended to linguistics and cognitive psychology, and has been an issue in language, thought, cognition and communication. Burke (1945) regards metaphor as a device for seeing something in terms of something else. This simple definition of metaphor says that metaphor

Grammar is an important skill that is put into practice on a daily basis. Proper grammar is essential to understanding one’s own language and for communication to happen between individuals who speak the same tongue. Grammar also lays the foundation for effective communication and if used improperly the message that wants to go through will loses its initial meaning. Grammar skills are of great importance, since they are useful in every aspect of life. Grammar is acquired even before a baby is

Hismanoglu, M. (2011). Investigation of ELT students’ intercultural communicative competence in relation to linguistic proficiency, overseas experience and formal instruction. International journal of Intercultural Relations. 35(6), 805–817. “An investigation of ELT students’ intercultural communicative competence in relation to linguistic proficiency, overseas experience and formal instruction” is an article written by Murat Hismanoglu and published in the International journal of Intercultural

Several factors have been responsible for the complexity reflected in today’s linguistic situation in Algeria, some being historical, others political and still others socio-cultural. It is undeniable that, as a consequence of the diverse events that the country has gone through, the Algerian society has acquired a distinctive identity whose particular dynamic intra-and inter-lingual variation can clearly be attested in the way(s) people speak in comparison with the two countries, morocco and Tunisia

Supervised by: Prof. Fan Wei Wei Major: Linguistics and applied linguistics Date: 2015 Introduction In recent decades of research in the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. Error analysis EA increasingly engaging the interest of linguists and non-linguists for the reason that it yields insights into the process of language learning. EA, particularly in second language acquisition has become popular because it is considered as one of the best kind of linguistic studies that concerns about the learners’

language. Therefore, although English as a global language can have some positive effects in fields such as education aviation and business communication arguably has more adverse effects. Young people have been facing serious problems in their linguistic identity due to English media influences . This aspect continually changes with the individual development, according to the environment and situations in daily life, where English is a powerful tool of communication. One example of this case