Essays on Language and Linguistics
As a young South African, I grew up in the heart of the countryside on a sheep farm. Within our small community, Afrikaans is our language for communication between one another. I grew up in my mother tongue called Afrikaans, that’s the language that shaped me into the person I am today. I grew up...
One of the branches of semiotics in this modern world is “consumer or marketing semiotics” as referred to the usages of semiotics in the marketing and consumers field (Noth 1990). As suggested by Mick (1986: 196-213) the fields of semiotics and advertising within the marketing umbrella seem to be interconnected. He stated that semiotics can...
Dialects are different varieties of language that differ from other varieties lexically, grammatically and geographically. The phenomenon of dialect levelling can be defined as the reduction in the number of dialects. Over the past 200 years English dialects have rapidly changed due to factors such as urbanisation and increased geographical and social movements. People’s original...
Profanity is simply defined as a blasphemous or obscene language (Oxford Dictionary). These words are considered offensive because they seemingly show no respect to religion and are utterly considered vulgar and disrespectful (Cambridge Dictionary). Profanity includes cursing and desiring evil on someone. DeWitt (2018) elaborated that those who curse become wicked and unethical people with...
Communication is the way in which we can express ourselves to one another by the use of language. Language comes in many different forms and meanings, there are also forms of communication that can cause an insult or cursing/ swearing. Some people think that swearing is rude and disrespectful, using the same swear words can...
The proliferation of body-worn cameras (BWCs) offers a unique opportunity to study police-citizen interactions. While traditional research places emphasis on actions taken by police officers, there remains a large gap concerning the behaviors of citizens towards police officers. This is problematic given the substantial body of research documenting police work as high in emotional labor....