Weekly Reflection # 1: On Bourdieu Just by reading the Compton-Lilly’s (2007) title’s article‚ The Complexities of Reading Capital in two Puerto Rican Families‚ I thought that it should be based on Pierre Bourdieu’s work‚ who uses‚ as one of his central discussions‚ the metaphorical representation of language in terms of capital and market. Compton-Lilly (2007) recognizes that Bourdieu’s theories of capital allowed her to framework reading capital‚ by analyzing how certain individuals are favored
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generation to the next. It is the language community of the mother tongue‚ the language spoken in a region‚ which enables the process of acculturation‚ the growing of an individual into a particular system of linguistic perception of the world and participation in the centuries old history of linguistic production. As a student my big perception of this is it’s a big deal to use it because many have a positive and negative about this and an argument will have. Actually the general usage of the term ’mother
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examples of how each rule operates. (968 words) INTRODUCTION Phonological rules are a system of writing‚ using formal notation‚ which allows linguists to express how to pronounce speech phonetically. Phonological rules are part of every speaker ’s linguistic competence (Finch 2000‚ p. 64). As well‚ these rules operate unconsciously (Finch 2000‚ p. 64). That is‚ we don ’t actually realize that we are following phonological rules when we speak and no one teaches us these rules. When we speak‚ we are undoubtedly
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to imagine significant social‚ intellectual or artistic activity taking place in its absence. The scope and diversity of human thought and experience place great demand on language. One of the most fundamental claims of modern linguistic analysis is that all languages have some common features. This can be verified by considering a few simple facts. Since all the languages are spoken‚ they must have phonetic and phonological systems; since they all have words and sentences‚ they
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(2003:165)defines error analysis(henceforth EA) as ‘a technique for identifying‚ classifying and systematically interpreting the unacceptable forms produced by someone learning a foreign language ‚using any of the principles and procedures provided by linguistics.’ EA was established in the 1960s by Stephen Pit Corder and colleagues as an alternative to contrastive analysis. It showed that contrastive analysis was unable to predict a great majority of errors. A key finding of EA has been that many
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This kind of the creative use of language is technically called linguistic deviations‚ by which he creates a language deviated from the norms of literary convention.Leech explains linguistic deviations with a concept of foregrounding : “any one who wishes to investigate the significance and value ‚of a work of art must concentrate on the element of interest and surprise‚ rather on the automatic pattern such deviations from the linguistic or other socially accepted norms have given the special name
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What is language and linguistics? It has been said that language is the very essence of what makes us human. If we are to fully understand what it means to be human‚ then‚ we must understand what language is‚ how it works‚ and how we use it. Linguistics‚ often defined as ’the scientific study of language’‚ is a broad term covering a wide range of different disciplines. The traditional ’core’ areas of the subject deal with the structure of human languages in terms of how speech sounds combine to
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neurolinguistics and perception and how language is changed through strokes Medical studies of how diseases are categorized and treated Archaeology “glottochronology” and “lexicostatistics”: how languages are related based on their shared vocabulary linguistic archaeology: how particular languages change over time‚ such as North American Indian Languages The archaeology of symbolic forms and categories Ethnohistory To do with how people conceive one another; how they’re language relates one another
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formation. The Nativist Approach 1.Language learning is species specific. 2.Language learning is determined by LAD. 3.Language learning is internalization of linguistic rules. 4.The rule of environment is not significant. Functional Approaches 1.Interpersonal interaction is emphasized. 2.Language functions rather linguistic form are emphasized. 3.Language learning is viewed as a socialization process. L1A vs FLL 1) physiological aspect 2) cognitive aspect 3) affective aspect 4) sociocultural
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India also has a long tradition in the study of language. However‚ the linguistic tradition in ancient India was exclusively concerned with what is called descriptive or synchronic linguistics.[i] It refused to see that language is not just a self-referential object and its study assumes the organic relationship it has with the society and power. R. K. Agnihotri argues that “the primary preoccupation of linguistics has been the analysis of the structural properties of language” and the “process
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