Language use

Language is an exceptionally compelling tool that can be used to portray emotion, ideas, and even characteristics of an individual. The different terminologies, dialects, accents, and slang the person uses can help determine a substantial amount of their background information. Some of the background information that can be acquired through language are social class, gender, race, profession, and even where a person was raised. For instance, if a person was born and raised in New York, they would

the part of the citizens. Without this, Nigeria will be linguistically, politically, educationally and socially isolated from her francophone neighbors. This realization informed certain provisions guiding language study in Nigeria education system. The learning and use of the foreign language is not only peculiar to Nigeria. It is a worldwide phenomenon. Early bilingual education was advocated by the Renaissance humanists but in more recent times, international organizations are reiterating that

The novella Typhoon by Joseph Conrad tells the story of a ship’s captain, Macwhirr, and his voyage across the East Asian sea. Macwhirr’s incredibly literal, unimaginative nature is juxtaposed with his second-in-command, Jukes, who uses figurative language. The juxtaposition allows the reader to see how Macwhirr and Jukes react to the same problem: a typhoon. When faced with a dangerous typhoon in the middle of the book, Macwhirr remains calm and reads articles from his books on dealing with typhoons

Language is a media to make a relationship between people in this world. Language is used in human communication in a daily conversation, bussiness, and many aspect of live in order to coorporate and solve the human problems. This is done because human is a communal people whom they always interact with another people. Communication has became as their daily needs and it cannot avoidable from their live. Therefore, language in human communication cannot be separated each other. As a foreign language

leaders and infamous leaders that use language to further their cause. Language is very powerful and the ones who are talented hold deep responsibility. This power can be extremely positive or extremely detrimental to a society as whole. Dialect between one another can help others unite, while having the hazard of manipulation, or even brainwashing. A legendary example of the use of language is Animal Farm, the novel written by George Orwell. The objective in using language is to bring people together

Figurative language is a literary device employed by numerous writers which helps develop style. For instance, in the poem “Not My Bones” by Marilyn Nelson, the author uses the figurative language such as metaphors to describe a slaves belief on who you really are. Likewise, in his narrative poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow utilizes various types of figurative language to create and enhance his style. Early on in the poem Longfellow establishes his style through the use of personification

captures the essences of the Australian bush culture and introduces his reader to the eccentric nature of its inhabitants. A unique nature that Lawson illustrates in his story of the Australian bush culture is the Australian outback. The use of figurative language in “draw a wire fence, and a few ragged gums and add some scattered sheep running away from the train”, this

The Party uses Newspeak as a means to limit the ideas of the population in George Orwell’s 1984. Language holds a very strong position in both written and verbal communication. Stephen King recalls in his book On Writing that Amy Tan once said to him, “...no one ever asks about the language…” Language plays perhaps the most important role when it comes to human communication. The words one chooses to express a thought can greatly change how people interpret what they are trying to say. Choosing the

Section1 A) Pragmatics refer to the appropriation and use of different forms of language in their appropriate social situations. Across the spectrum of social situations there’s a range of language forms that are socially acceptable for each. Learning to recognize in which instance different language forms are appropriate is known as following pragmatic rules of speech. Communication competence refers to our capacity to use our different language elements in a way that’s effective and completes our

Women and Men use Language differently. The data on Table 1 shows that the men in the meeting had more turns but there was an exception (woman D) and the men in the meeting generally spoke for longer per turn but again there was an exception (woman B). Additionally men also interrupted more (except for man E), and men were interrupted more except Man E and Man I, therefore there is no significant pattern in terms of which gender was interrupted more. Robin Lakoff found that women’s language lacks authority