Essays on Language and Linguistics

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...

Psychologists have investigated whether a bilinguals’ second language is more emotionally distant than their first. ‘Emotionally distant’ can be defined as the absence of an arousal or characterized intense feeling to a source. The processing of emotion is primarily in the limbic system in an area known as the amygdala whereas language is subject to...

Did you know that the study of signs existed since the Greek era? Since the beginning of humanity, signs have been part of our language; as a form of this expression term is called “semiotics”. This term it does not to be confused with Semiology which is a subset of semiotics. Also, it includes the...

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...

Introduction This research paper presents the semiotic analysis of the image (Figure 1) titled ‘Wheatfield- A confrontation’ photographed by Agnes Denes in 1982. Denes is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist who is widely recognised as a pioneer in her environmental activism, and her relentless pursuit to elucidate political and societal injustices with her art. She...

Munshi Premchand Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, whose pen name was Munshi Premchand was an Indian writer best known for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. He was known to be one the greatest Hindustani writers of the early 20th century. He was a novelist, short story writer and dramatist, who penned over a dozen novels, hundreds of short...

Introduction Sign language has played a significant role in the deaf culture. Individuals who were deaf did not have a voice to communicate with, but when sign language was created it gave deaf individuals a newfound voice. Sign language started a new culture for the deaf community and brought them around the world together. In...

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...

Background Information In this report, approaches and techniques adopted by the two selected textbooks will be analyzed and discussed. These two textbooks are designed to teach a second language in classrooms. One of the books chosen is ‘New Practical Chinese Reader: Textbook’. It was published in the year of 2003. The book is to be...

Introduction Singaporean English (SgE) has rapidly become a topic of discussion amongst linguists and anyone who studies language due to a distinct difference. Though the total population as of 2019 Mid-Year estimates to 5.7 million, only 3.5 million are Singapore Citizens, which amount up to 61.38% (SingStat, n.d.). When Singapore gained independence in 1965, the...