P age |1 Janine Wiggill( Student No:30147794) Unit 1: Language as a process Assignment 02 Observe & Interview / Exploring language diversity where you live Task 1: Observe your community I live on a farm in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands. I spent three mornings on a building site observing three builders from the local community at work. (please refer to Image 1 below) IMAGE 1 “SPARAK ‚ HAMILTON AND SIMPHIWE ON A BUILDING SITE IN LIDGETTON‚ KZN MIDLANDS Prior to spending time observing the men‚ I
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1. Write about your past formal or informal language learning experiences. Would you consider them effective or ineffective? Learning foreign languages is a real challenge to everyone and a lot of people have their own successful and unsuccessful experiences. As for me‚ I’d like to tell about a negative one because‚ unfortunately‚ I had it more than positive. I’ve been learning English since I was 10 years old. At first‚ it was at school. Those lessons left much to be desired. We had a middle-aged
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socioeconomic status‚ which in the business industry is crucial. Variations in language therefore cause many social attitudes to arise and be utilised to discriminate others just on the way we speak which is what is occurring in the business world at the moment. Firms tend to hire people who speak in the same expected manner since ‘it is all about hiring ‘people like us’’‚ which further outlines one of the functions of language to separate ‘us’ from ‘them’ COURSE RELEVANCE: #accents #social attitudes
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play "No Sugar"‚ Jack Davis uses language effectively with the clever use of techniques. The language is used by Davis to construct the characters and present the issues regarding the discrimination of aborigines during the Great Depression. Davis uses a range of different types of languages techniques in the play "No Sugar"‚ which include the Nyoongah language‚ formal English‚ informal English‚ and tone to shape the readers response. The native Nyoongah language is used frequently throughout the
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in our world. Words can hurt‚ heal‚ create‚ build and transform. Language is obviously a vital tool that unites people. Every nation has their dialect and specific slang that made them unique. The variations depend also on the age categories. In American society people of each generation have been adding new meanings and new words into the conversations in order to reflect the experiences‚ beliefs and values of speakers. The language people use when talk informally to friends of the same age can be
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Reader Response #2 – Question 1 In the Kikongo language‚ nommo means word‚ but it is also “the force that makes things live as what they are” (Kingsolver 209). Everything is present in this world‚ but once named‚ it gives them the life that they are named after. For example‚ a snake has the life it has because it is named snake‚ while a chicken is not a snake because that is not what it is named. This is why Adah and Leah live different lives despite being twins; they have different names. All
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Learning a foreign language isn’t an easy thing. Nowadays it’s especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work‚ others travel abroad‚ for the third studying foreign languages is a hobby. Everyone‚ who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries‚ read foreign authors in the original‚ which makes your outlook wider. I study English. It’s a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. Over 300 million
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Language and Culture There are many who would say much about language and culture. Some might even say that the two are intertwined. There is ample evidence that language determines a culture. However some would save that language does not determine culture. My personal belief is that the use of the language determines the culture. One such place to find this evidence would be in any branch of the United States’ armed forces. Every day military culture includes a vast variety of ways to make the
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so-called dead language. Firstly‚ with the help of Latin and Ancient Greek it is possible to trace all sorts of words‚ ideas‚ forms of expression of European culture back to much earlier time. Secondly‚ Latin literature is deeply connected with Roman history‚ so studying and translating Latin literary works provide knowledge of a relevant historic period that influenced the history of the entire Europe. Thus‚ the study of Latin can widen your knowledge of History. Moreover‚ the dead languages are considered
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Gaelic Language Kassandra Alsept AIU Online Abstract This paper reflects on the history of the Irish language and its dialects. This paper also visits the Latin language’s impact on Western languages. Gaelic Language Irish is a vernacular language that has derived from Celtic roots‚ much like the Scottish Gaelic‚ Manx Gaelic‚ and Welsh languages. It is believed that all of these languages branched off from a Common Celtic language ("Foras na Gaeilge -The Irish Language - History"‚ n
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