Linguistics

One of the countries last to adopt the surname system is Mongolia. The country is known for its nomadic culture. People grouped themselves according to their herds but with globalization and urbanization, they had to develop a better name system. Therefore, it was only in 1997 when a law was passed for everyone to have […]

Georgie (nodding) (mumbling) Look! Mum Who’s that? Georgie Minnie Mouse Georgie Can’t do the pedals. Nearly done it Mum Nearly. Outside you will won’t ya. Wow look at that. That’s just right for you ain’t it. Do you like it? Georgie Yeah Mum You wanted a little bike didn’t you. You pleased? This conversation incorporates […]

Having been transformed into an object of terror and imperfection through the potential infidelity of someone with outward physical perfection, the narrator proceeds to issue a chilling warning in the shape of a list of creatures that she has turned to stone. A mere glance at a “bee” or “bird” renders them respectively into “a […]

Language is the direct means of communication among people. The tools it uses are words and language patterns reflecting the man’s wishes, emotions, thoughts and cultures. Before turning the internal sound into the external sound, we have to pick the appropriate words and mold them into meanings and form patterns. These kind of selections and […]

Prior to unfold the compassion, personally, I am continuing to appreciate that generative and systemic functional grammars persist as “non-overlapping magisteria.” Since they are not dichotomous or contrary, it should be accepted that it’s helpful to simply define one in terms of what the other is not, if we want to safely conclude one is […]

Part One: Explain the meaning of the following terms, using examples from the U211 materials and any relevant examples of your own. Lexical Density: Lexical density refers to the percentage of words in a text which are lexical items, compared to grammatical items. Lexical items are ‘an open system of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so […]

In Nisei Daughter book, the life and sacrifices of an American citizen with Japanese descendant family living in a Nisei encampment prior and during the Second World War was clearly illustrated as the author wrote her chronological memoir of the past. This much read book of Monica Sone who also known as Kazuko Itoi brought […]

E. E. Cummings, who was born in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements – namely, ideograms. Cummings’ most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram; it is extremely terse and it combines both visual and auditory elements. There maybe […]

English has spread rapidly, even since independence, either as a first language or as a medium of education for non-native speakers (Platt and Weber, 2002). The actual range of varieties of English is much greater than is found in the British Isles. On the one hand we can speak of an acrolect or high status […]

Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT)The current study deems TBLT as an approach to develop fluency among the student-participants due to its internationality and authenticity. Albino (2017) implemented TBLT to improve the speaking fluency of 9th graders at PUNIV-Cazenga where results suggest positive improvement in the learners’ fluency. Other studies also examined TBLT and found significant […]