The obstacles to national unity Racial Inequality‚ Social Inequality‚ Religious inequality... etc (1) Regionalism/Separatism (ii) Linguism (iii) Casteism and (iv) communalism. (i) Regionalism/Separatism: Regionalism or Separatism is the most advance obstacle in the way of National Unity and development. Above all regionalism and separatism are threatening to balkanize the country. Aggressive regionalism has gravely undermined the feeling of unity of the people. It creates a parochial outlook
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concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the way it is being used to convey social meaning. It could therefore be regarded to as language and society. Several scholars have attempted to give comprehensive definitions of linguistic among which include: J.B Prides and J.Holmes (1972) define sociolinguistics as “the study of the structure and the use of language in it social and cultural context.” It studies the structure of language and examines how language is used differently
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different forms. Chapter 1 refers to the first language acquisition and how a baby starts babbling and then he can be able to develop a huge number of words and sentences. Freeman also refers in how different fields such as psychology‚ sociology‚ linguistics‚ affect the learner in the acquisition of the language. The second chapter refers to written and second language acquisition using different goals and
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What is semiotics? Semiotics is defined as the study of signs in society‚ or theory of signs‚ what Saussure called semiology ’ (Bignell 1986:5). Semiotics is about linguistic and non-linguistic signs: where linguistic signs are represented by lexical language or words (text)‚ and non-linguistic are those which are represented in visual pictures (photographs). Semioticians are looking for the systems which are based on possible signs‚ it involves different signs such as words or images‚ everything
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knowledge of these rules means that he has learned the language. The Place of Grammar in Language Teaching To many people‚ language learning and teaching is essentially a question of grammar. Hence‚ language teaching should concentrate on linguistic units or forms or language structure‚ which is the trend of the day. Despite the fact that the mastery of a language entails a very knowledge of the rules of grammar‚ some attempts of a new description of the language have arisen. The goal is to
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Language is what makes us as humans unique; it differentiates us from primates. Generally it is acquired in childhood and is developed throughout our lives. Yet what would happen if language was not acquired in childhood? Lennberg (1967: as cited in Grimshaw‚ Adelstein‚ Bryden & MacKinnon‚ 1998).) claims that there is a critical period for when language must develop‚ (after infancy and before puberty) otherwise it will never reach its potential. Using this as a basis for the question can language
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sociolinguistics is society +language=sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics and linguistics There are many sociolinguistics who would also call themselves linguists. The question of who is socialist and who is not neither interesting nor important. Linguistics differs from sociolinguistics in taking account only the structure of language to the exclusion of the social context in which it is learned and use. The task of the linguistics is to work out the rules of language‚ after that sociolinguistics
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of linguistic study‚ its connection with phonetics‚ grammar‚ stylistics & contrastive linguistics. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that deals with the lexical component of language. The lexicon holds information about the phonetic‚ phonological‚ syntactic‚ semantic and pragmatic properties of words and consequently has a central role in these levels of analysis. It is also a major area of investigation in other areas of linguistics‚ such as psycholinguistics‚ typological linguistics and
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Asniati Ningsih 105214005 English for Specific Purposes Chapter II ESP CHARACTERISTICS AND SUBCHARACTERISTICS ESP currently possesses three specifics referents in the world of English language education: a. Specific subsets of the English language that are required to carry out specific task for specific purposes. b. A branch of language education that studies and teaches subsets of English to assist learners in successfully carrying out specific task for specific purposes.
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world. John Walsh says that “[the claim that] English‚ the ‘International Shark’ as one commentator has dramatically called it‚ is about to devour other state languages‚ ignores a far more diverse tapestry of linguistic diversity” (Walsh‚ 2001). However‚ the threat of English to linguistic diversity and other cultures is debatable. This paper will discuss three significant issues with a view to the clarification of this issue: globalisation; English as a world medium; and English as a new ‘cultural
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