LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the ’natural being’ of animal existence to the ’cultural being’ of human existence‚ language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and‚ in the process‚ creates multiple identities. The maintenance‚ merger‚ clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists‚ philosophers‚ psychologists
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Do languages help mould the way we think? If we all spoke the same language‚ would we think in the same way? Discuss the issue using examples‚ details‚ and your personal experie-nces of English and your native language. Answer: A Language is a special “tool” which helps humans communicate with each other and also‚ being unique in comparison with the other animals and species. Due to its specific properties‚ a language is the way humans can share their thoughts to each other. In other words‚ language
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people broadcast information that is soothing to the ears of an individual to persuade them by not disclosing the entire truth. For instance‚ an advertisement would introduce a product to us by telling us about all the positive effects‚ however when you use a product it may cause some sort of side effect in the end that they never told you. This statement made by the author: “Shorn of the complexities‚ their politics‚ their grasp of sheer arduousness of change‚ they stand before us” (2) is true because
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Billions of years ago planet Earth did not look like it does today‚ it was covered in lava and volcanoes. There was no possible way that life could exist on the planet. However‚ eventually the planet started cooling down; huge amounts of steam rose causing clouds. Then the clouds rained. One thousand years of continuous raining caused oceans which made earth like it is today. Planet Earth‚ also known as the blue planet‚ has oceans covering three quarters of the Earth’s surface. Oceans have a
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misuse of the technology‚ meaning it’s being very badly viewed among large amounts of people. Facial recognition has been very popular making it accessible to more than 18‚000 law enforcement agencies. But there is much concern of the unregulated use of the software and many fear that it could lead to potential misuse of the facial recognition software. In fact law enforcement agencies get calls two to three times a month from people claiming that the cops had taken pictures of them without their
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Identifying the features of different kinds of speech is the first step in understanding spoken language. The second is hearing how speech changes to fit different contexts. These can be different places (such as the playground‚ a doctor’s surgery‚ a law court or a job interview) and different audiences (eg adults‚ friends‚ potential employers). Key to each context is purpose - why we are having the conversation in the first place. Are we sharing gossip with friends in order to bond more tightly
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Fossil’s Age. a. Relative Dating estimates the time during which an organism lived. It’s done by comparing the placement of fossils of that organism with the placement of fossils in other layers of rock. b. Radiometric Dating is a technique that uses the natural decay rate of unstable isotopes found in materials in order to calculate the age of that material. (Done to calculate actual age of Fossil) c. Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons‚ but a different number
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Dialects refers to how words are pronounced. Your demographic location and social class can affect your dialect; how you pronounce and say certain words. I am from Texas and when I speak you can easily hear my southern accent so I identify with other texans. Also‚ jargon’s that are used can help classify individuals into a category. But I think to answer your question language helps to define individuals easily because when a person speaks it is very easy to detect where they might be from and also
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extract the author uses several ways to convey changes in the mood and meaning‚ the first of these I will examine is the sentence structure. The short sentences in the second paragraph make the reader take note to the issues narrated to them the language also becomes more urgent and darker. The longer sentences use nicer descriptive phrases like “Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty…” ‚ this makes the places seem welcoming. The darker sentences are just as descriptive‚ but use shorter phrases
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