Category: Language

Introduction Human achieves language by being in a culture, it is passed down to generation and the next. This is what Yule (2010.p.14) described as cultural transmission. Humans do not inherit language they achieve them which means that language is not transferred through genes of the parents it is obtained by being with other speakers.…

Code mixing (CM) refers to the integration of two or more languages in speech. It is frequently observed in user-generated content on various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, especially from multilingual users. This present study attempts to analyze the code-mixed text collected from various articles and papers. Introduction Code-Switching and its…

Traditional language manifests essential bonds through cultural identity which shapes ethnic domain and individuality. Communication empowers how ideas are contrived within society because of diversification and its impact on people. In Gloria Anzaldúas ruminative essay, How to Tame A Wild Tongue, she emphasizes how language and culture are inseparable and that a native tongue ties…

The poems, Elena, by Pat Mora, and, Translation for Mama, by Richard Blanco, are both about having obstacles in communication, disconnection in family, and identifying themselves as individuals.These two poems reflect on issues in communicating and trying to adapt themselves into English as a new language and in a new environment. Mora mostly focuses on…

ABSTRACT This paper explains about the published articles from online resources that give a solution to immediate language translation in order to maintain situational understanding and information collection. As technology shrinks the distance between nationalities and cultures, language remains a barrier that still prevents a shared perceptive between the pair. This paper will look at…

For many writers, figurative language is a device used to make readers empathize with characters. In the short story, On the Rainy River, the author, Tim OBrien, utilizes figurative language to depict the main characters experiences, inner thoughts, and struggles. More specifically, he also implements figurative language to advise readers about the narrators past traumas.…

The intention of most media messages is to persuade the audience to believe or to behave a certain way. Hollywood films use upscale special effects to make the spectators that what theyre seeing is real. News use several techniques  such as direct quotation of identified sources  to make their audience accept the story…

According to me, surnames or last names are really important for an individual. By this I mean surnames provide a background history and knowledge about our family and ourselves too as it is very important to know where we came from and who our ancestors are. If I talk about my family, I am a…

Making Meaning: Words and Images Languagemore specifically human languagerefers to the grammar, structure and other rules and norms that allow humans to make utterances and sounds in a way that others can understand. (Nordquist, 2019). The origin of language and its evolutions is highly speculative and has been debated vigorously amongst some of the greatest…

The language of soccer is very different from the body language of soccer. Body language in soccer is very important in order to have a good game. Actions on the football field relate to the different national teams and countries cultural understanding of football and how these actions become spoken dialects within a language of…