Women or men, which group is more likely to learn a new language and what effect does gender have on the new language learning process? Are women more inclined to learn a new language or men? Is there a connection between bilingualism and gender? What gender characteristics affect the mastery and learning of a new language? These questions have always occupied the minds of language learners. Is language and gender-related at all? Language and gender refer to the relationship between...
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“Immigrants should speak English in their own homes to help prevent ‘schizophrenic’ rifts between generations of their families as almost a third of British Asian speak only their native language”. It is ironic that David Blunkett is demanding immigrants to speak English, yet in my household the language English was not allowed. Despite having a father born and raised in London and a mother who was fluent in multiple languages including English, the presence of English was not in my...
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Around the world 7,000 languages are being spoken, and most of us only speak one or two. Our identities are formed by a lot of aspects: by the people around us, the books we read, the music we listen to and the work we do. But, speaking a second language, can lead one to create a different disguise and help to understand who we are. The beauty of multilingualism lies in the ability to express yourself in multiple ways. Even...
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Language is what we use every day, a way to communicate. It’s composed of characters and pronunciations. And, characters include words from all over the world, all the countries, like English letters, Chinese characters, Arabian numbers, etc. However, what makes all the languages so different is another thing called “pronunciation”, which makes English sound like English, and Chinese sound like Chinese. On hearing the pronunciation, you can immediately take a reaction that it is English or Chinese or any other...
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Through increasing globalization, English established itself as the dominant language around the world. People who don’t know English would then be at a disadvantage since they can’t be understood on their own by the majority. This doesn’t mean that monolingual English speakers escape being disadvantaged. I agree up to a point that English monolinguals can get by fine in the United States as they have no trouble being understood in conversation most often, but they miss out on benefits and...
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It is an irrefutable fact that in the cosmopolitan world bilingualism is considered the most advantageous skill which includes educational and social benefits. Although it has some drawbacks such as losing national identity and decreasing in the usage of mother tongue, the advantages of multilingualism outweigh all drawbacks giving opportunity for individuals cognitive improvement (yielding studying abroad, mental flexibility, language background, and personal development)as well as taking the advantage of being a sociable person (including cultural integration, traveling and employment)....
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Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” is an examination of human connection, a comparison of talking vs. communicating. The story’s setting, repetition of words, spare dialogue, and use of cognitive verbs establishes a textual pattern that develops the narrative’s dilemma. The text further explores the power of dialect crashing down between two people and how what is unsaid or what is unspeakable can define and disconnect individuals. Hemingway exhibits deficiency in language by the use of unnamed characters...
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In today’s world, it feels as if every sentence, no matter the platform, is inherently censored and carefully constructed. This phenomenon can be attributed to political correctness, or PC, movement. The PC movement has permeated all major platforms such as radio, social media, television, and literature. The fact of the matter is that some different phrases and motifs have been redacted from the acceptable language column. The intense and visual language that accompanies sex, drugs, and violence is nothing more...
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Aldous Huxley, in his lexis and syntax, have proven his proficiency in language through the successful delivering of the layering meanings behind “Brave New World”. The book, “Brave New World”, has certainly stood different from other books, especially with the challenging set of vocabulary it requires of the reader to wholly understand its meaning. Worthy and reflective of the author’s scholarly upbringing, the abundance of long, complicated words in the novel radiated the formal, scientific tone of the future. In...
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Multilingual nations exist in all parts of the world, and there are massive examples of it if one wants to study them. Toughness arises only when one attempts to locate a country that is genuinely monolingual.[footnoteRef:1] There appear to be no example of this type. The vast majority of the nation-states of the world have more than one language spoken indigenously within their frontiers. In some cases languages that’s spoken in a country may reach up to hundreds (well of...
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Abstract This qualitative study was an attempt to explore the learners’ viewpoints on Instagram application in learning English language. The participants of the study involved 27 undergraduate ESL learners, who were enrolled in an Academic Communication course at a private university in Malaysia. A focus group discussion was conducted to collect the learners’ perspectives towards the use of Instagram in English language learning. The findings of the study revealed the learners enjoyed learning English via Instagram as it enabled them...
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Making Meaning: Words and Images ‘Language—more specifically human language—refers to the grammar, structure and other rules and norms that allow humans to make utterances and sounds in a way that others can understand’. (Nordquist, 2019). The origin of language and its evolutions is highly speculative and has been debated vigorously amongst some of the greatest minds- many of which, have attempted to source its first emergence and develop upon that- i.e. The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who defined the...
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Growing up Language is an iconic obstacle a child must conquer. A language is a tool that enables people to communicate & it is an essence of what it means to be human(Panopto Lecture). And when we address Spoken Language, it is cleaved into five different categories which are Phonology, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, and Pragmatics(Textbook 9.1 The Road to Speech). Frankly speaking, I don’t think that many of our Parents or Teachers were even aware of these five aspects of...
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It is unlikely a person would ever recall the moment of their very first utterance. After months of crying and cooing, the baby’s speech would start to resemble a form of mama, or dada as it starts to produce preliminary syllables in the early stages of linguistic development (Parker & Riley, 2010). Before you know it, the baby is able to comprehend words and even form basic sentences on their own. During this process no proper education is involved. Just...
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Introduction Linguistics is the study of language that includes analyzing language forms and contexts as well. My study is concerned with finding and describing the relation between authorial presence ‘voice’ in second language writing (SLW) in undergraduate students both males and females. Because applied linguistics is my area of interest, I will apply the results of this study to second language writing (SLW) to investigate the role of ‘voice’ in argumentative writing in a relation to overall quality of academic...
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In recent years ethical issues in language documentation have received surprisingly a great attention in India. Although the history of the study of Indian linguistic have been a great value across the world and the contributions of the great linguist Panini in 3rd century has never been forgotten, even after some of the ethical values like; trustworthiness, respect, responsibilities, fairness, caring and authentication have been missing in languages documentation in India. The aim of this paper is to highlight such...
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Abstract This paper explores the relationship between the development of human languages around the world and the distinct environmental phenomena the speakers of a particular language are encountered with. By examining six journal articles and one media interview with a prominent researcher in the area of study, I have determined that there is a significant amount of evidence that supports the idea that language is adaptive to the world around it and that this research is only scratching the surface...
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In times when the definition of a woman is no longer constant or abiding, the very foundation of feminist politics is questioned and transformed accordingly. In her book “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, Judith Butler challenges the current understanding of the feminist model by opening the discussion on how it has changed our view of female gender. Butler calls for abandoning the binary categories, stating that gender is nothing more than a performance informed by acts and...
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Abstract This research is being conducted to analyze how language plays its role in determining, manipulating, adjusting and influencing human’s thoughts and perception. Research was conducted in University of Gujrat, using a survey method. Fake statement was presented as a fact and point of view were given in its favor. To check the influence of language in thoughts, forty samples were taken. Sample was taken in the form of two variables, males and females. Results support that language influences human’s...
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A recent advertisement for Lockheed products claimed that if William the Conqueror had not had technological superiority when he invaded England in 1066, ‘this very ad might have been written in Anglo-Saxon’. What’s wrong with this picture? Two things: First, all living languages are always changing, so the Old English spoken by William’s adversaries would be greatly different from Modern English even if there had been no Norman conquest. (Just try to read the 14th-century Middle English of Chaucer’s Canterbury...
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INTRODUCTION Language represents an essential human characteristic what differentiates us from other species. Hence, language acquisition play a fundamental role in the science world. The most relevant contribution of language acquisition in first and second languages to the progress of science has been done at least in a specific field, the cognitive science. In other words, they have encouraged the study of mind and intelligence by describing how children or adult learn languages. This two areas are particularly meaningful to...
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Summary Pakistan is a multilingual state with numerous ethnic gatherings. The official language of the state is English. Urdu is the national language in spite of the fact that it is the primary language of the Mohajirs, who structure just 7.6 percent of the populace. The Mohajirs are the Muslims who had emigrated from India when Pakistan appeared in 1947. The utilization of different dialects would have offered capacity to different up-and-comers. The world class gatherings and the ethnic minorities...
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While many English teachers demand the use of standard American English in their classrooms, many others support the multiculturalism and authenticity of those who express themselves differently. Ryan Bloom is undoubtedly one of those who think it is unfair for others to limit the way we communicate. This novelist and academic writer, however, in his article “Inescapably, you’re judged by your language” (The New Yorker, 19 June 2017) convinces us that nowadays, it is important to learn how to reserve...
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Abstract In this report I would like to emphasize the contribution of language and the media to the sense of living in this world. I will discuss about the influence of language in the world of media. Media suffuse our sense of living in a world: a social world, an imaginative world, the world of global politics and confrontation. The contribution of media to the individual’s mindset and thought processing is inevitable. The right use of language and media can...
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A community is a social unit that shares various things in common such as religion, norms, values, identity and most importantly, the language. They also share a geographical location in terms of a village, or country or a virtual space through various communication platforms such as the social media. One of the most important identity of a community is the language used. Communication plays an essential role in the life of every human being. It does not only separate us...
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An ongoing notice for Lockheed items asserted that if William the Conqueror had not had innovative predominance when he attacked England in 1066, ‘this very advertisement may have been written in Anglo-Saxon’. What’s going on with this image? Two things: First, all living dialects are continually changing, so the Old English spoken by William’s enemies would be enormously not the same as Modern English regardless of whether there had been no Norman success. (Simply attempt to peruse the fourteenth century...
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Code Switching (hereafter CS) is acknowledged as a highly significant and prevalent conversational phenomenon in bilingual contexts and is generally defined as a sociolinguistic communication strategy which allows bilingual speakers to alternate between two or more languages during discourse (Garcia et al., 2018; Schau, Dellande & Gilly, 2007 & Vickers, Goble & Deckert, 2015). This planned or unplanned switch from one language to another occurs in many forms such as within sentences boundaries, within phrases, between words or between clauses...
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BENEFIT Current adolescents are living in the digital world, and they feel comfortable in the environment of the ubiquitous mediascape (Ohler, 2013). There is no doubt that the modern young generation is called ‘digital natives’ (Lambert, 2018, p. 6). A research reported that about 50 % of teenagers from 12 to 17 in the US have experienced on the Internet ‘from sharing self-authored material to blogging and re-mixing text, music and visuals’ (Lenhart and Madden, 2005, cited in Lundby, 2008,...
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NLP (Natural Language Processing) started during the 1950s as the crossing point of man-made brain power and the semantics. This intersection of the artificial intelligence and linguistics resulted in many successful natural language processing operations in artificial intelligence. however some theoretical and practical issues were still a matter of great concern. Due to industrial growth of artificial intelligence and smart systems, the theoretical problems were being disregarded while the products were generated and sold. The TINLAP (Theoretical issues in natural...
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Abstract A fully automated system used to generate Multilingual Language from Monolingual Language .Language communicator is a computerized system that is design to translate source text from various natural language into target text of another fo- reign languages. In this paper, we present the language generation of Marathi-English pair, where the source language is Marathi and the targeted language would be English. Due to increased need of global communication, multilingual Machine Translation is the new need of this generation. In...
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