matter of linguistics What is language? SET /REPERTOIRE TOOL MEANS OF INTERACTION KINESICS FLEXIBLE Creative Rule-governed Arbitrary Discrete To acquire Fully-fledged Sound /Phonetics /Phonology Word/Morphology Sentence/Syntax Meaning/Semantics Tacitly Gender Breach Finite set of rules / infinite Linguist To be under oath NEOLOGISM GURU SCHOOLS OF LINGUISTICS School /Trend /Approach /Frame of Thinking Principles / Underpinnings The History of Linguistics is split
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Thinking Mathematically Short Essay: Understanding Mathematics and Linguistics How is Mathematics and Linguistics related with each other? Linguistics is the science of language. Linguists seek to understand the proper uses of natural human language. How languages are structured‚ how and why they vary and change‚ how they are acquired‚ and how people‚ in communicating use them. Mathematics on the other hand is the language of science. It is used to understand
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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; Hayes‚ Ornstein‚ & Gage‚ 1987). Instances of cultural language differences are evidenced in that some languages have specific
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The Linguistic imperialism of Robert Phillipson 1. Linguistic Imperialism 1.1 The spread of English The stated aim of Phillipson’s 1992 book Linguistic Imperialism was to set out how English became so dominant and why‚ and to examine the role ELT pedagogy had in contributing to it becoming “the international language par excellence in which the fate of most of the worlds millions is decided.” (Phillipson 1992 p.6) While many writers had tackled the question before no one had done so from
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been in my head since day one‚ and once again this class has showing me that any person can become disable and it may happen at any moment; whether you are famous‚ rich or poor no one is safe from suffering a disability. Watching the documentary‚ The Crash Roll was something very interesting and it will stick with me forever. This documentary did not only demonstrated the ribality between both: Kevin and Shaun or Kevin tragic accident‚ this documentary showed
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IFL A4.2 (2011-2012) Chapter 1: What is Language? - - .b lo gs po t.c om - Language can be viewed as a social fact‚ as a psychological state (mental dictionary)‚ as a set of structures (a grammatical system: a system to what orders the words have to come in if they are to make sense)‚ or as a collection of outputs (utterances/sentences: spoken or written). Language can be viewed as a set of choices (different ways of saying a sentence)‚ a set of contrasts (an inversion
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The field of linguistics both borrows from and lends its own theories and methods to other disciplines. Linguistic theories and methods are also used in other fields of study. These overlapping interests have led to the creation of several cross-disciplinary fields. I. sociolinguistics: Sociolinguistics is the study of patterns and variations in language within a society or community. In other words‚ it is the study of language in relation to social factors (e.g.‚ social class‚ region‚ age‚ sex
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Historical Linguistics Sound change based on Campbell (2004) Introduction: The sounds of languages tend to change overtime. The question‚ then‚ is what kinds of sound change take place? Kinds of sound change 1. Regular or sporadic 2. Conditioned or unconditioned 3. Phonemic or non-phonemic 1- Regular or sporadic In general ‘sound laws admit of no exceptions’. That is‚ a change will take place wherever the sound which undergoes the change is found in the environment that conditions
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Jan. 18 The structure of language. [Assign. 1 (essay) due today at lecture time] Some key terms: syntax: subject‚ verb‚ object; language types; semantics (”Colorless green ideas…”); pragmatics. Jan. 20 Language structure analysis. Language‚ Culture‚ and Cognition. (hdt. #3.0 & 3.01) Readings: Bonvillain‚ Chaps. 2-cont. (pp. 22-27‚ 37-39) & 3 (pp. 41-63) Some key terms: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; semantic or vocabulary domain;
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Crash: Illustrations of Racial Issues Have you watched the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis? It is a marvelous film which consists of sensational and emotional realistic scenes‚ and was played by professional actors. Moreover‚ it is directed by a well-known writer whose works have won several Academy awards‚ and Crash is one of them. In this film‚ Haggis tends to represent major issues that occurred in a city of diversity by exposing different kinds of social and multicultural differences. The
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