Essays on English Language

The Issue and Context (500 Words) Language is one of many symbols that is used to represent the existence of one social group, society, and on a larger scale, nation. It is uttered into oral or written form to express human emotion, feeling, affection, and many more. It expresses ideas, opinions, thoughts, and all other...

Linguist Felicity Cox states, “Linguistic change runs parallel with social change”, this reflects the belief that language change is a result of societal change. There are many changes shown throughout history that have shaped the English language to what it is as we know it today, with the invention of the printing press and codification...

Whether you call it the language prejudices or linguistic elitism, the belief that the ability to speak any language particularly makes one person completely superior to the other person is a danger to the society along with the fact that it is an inconsiderate of reality for the lesser pillaged people within the society. However,...

Intro: Britain was trying to spread English across the world from France to India to Australia and even to America. When Britain colonised America they forced English on the locals with not a whole lot of effort to learn Native American. America wanted to feel independent and decided to move away from English and create...

I chose this topic because I am interested in this theme. What I mostly found interesting in this topic is the diversity of the English language. I am impressed by how many versions can a language have and how different days are. In my paper, I am trying to illustrate the differences between American and...

Language is a meaningful expression of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and passions, ideas, desires, etc. We cannot imagine human civilization without language. Language is the medium by which human civilization has moved from the Stone Age to the present age of science, art, and technology. Language is personal, social, and political, symbolic, systematic, vocal, Non-instinctive, conventional...

1. What do we know about the people(s) who spoke *Indo-European? (Back up your answer through examples. Use at least 5 sentences for your answer.) Indo-Europeans had a complex system of family relationships. They were small farmers and they were able to count gold and silver. The cow and horses were the best sources for...

Introduction: Literacy: Definition: “Literacy is basically the ability to read, write, learn and application of these abilities in a prolific manner.” Explanation: As Kofi Annan said, “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a bulwark against poverty and a building block of development” (Annan, 1969) Literacy is the ability to recognize when...

With the rapid rise of globalization all over the world, English language teaching and learning keeps spreading in education, trade and many other sectors; Bangladesh is not an exception in this regard. Since colonial period, the English language has been playing a crucial role, mainly in the education sector. However, the current perspective for teaching...

English is the most globally used language and having good command over it is very essential. As we know, all the international affairs and business communications use English as its base language. Nowadays, it is necessary for everybody to have good command over the English language, and this is true specially for professionals who work...