multicultural people we got used to hear different languages everyday‚ which brings up the questions if a country should be bilingual or have common language to unify. Charles Krauthammer essay “Let’s make it official” claims that we need a common language to be unified culture. A country is diverse in different culture but could be unified in language. It is necessary to understand what nationhood is‚ so that you the reader realize that a national language does not alter a nation. It binds the nation
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Is language an instinct? Before discussing this question‚ the definition or area of language should be considered first. Many introductions to the study of language‚ linguistics‚ avoid giving a definition‚ or consider it to be so obvious that it does not need to be defined (Harley‚ 1995). According to Gleason and Ratner (1998)‚ one of the properties attributed to language is that it is a uniquely human behaviour. Pinker (1994:334) points out that: nonhuman communication systems are based
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The English language English is one of the most important languages in the world. It can even be regarded as the single most important language. Though other languages are important too‚ they are not the same as the English language is. English is important because it is probably the only language that truly links the whole world together. If not for English‚ the whole world may not be as united as it is today. The other languages may be important for their local values and culture.Considering
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Language and Thought No one would disagree with the claim that language and thought interact in many significant ways. There is great disagreement‚ however‚ about the proposition that each specific language has its own influence on the thought and action of its speakers. On the one hand‚ anyone who has learned more than one language is struck by the many ways in which languages differ from one another. But on the other hand‚ we expect human beings everywhere to have similar ways of experiencing
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Vernacular Language HUMA215-1205B-09 Unit 2 Individual Project 1/20/13 LaToya Marible Abstract Vernacular language is somewhat of a unique language that has seems to have such a wide spread throughout the 11th-14th century. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of the impacts of vernacular language. After reading this paper you will understand what vernacular language is. Vernacular Language The spread for vernacular language was an
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Languages When I read the article about languages then it put me thinking. How many languages I can speak myself. And it hit me‚ not much. I can speak Estonian as my native language and English only as my foreign language. It is great that I have French in my university’s studying program because like Louise said in the text- lots of businesses say they want people who can speak European languages‚ but young people do not seem to realize that speaking another language can imrpove their job prospects
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The language is the most important means of communication. It is necessary to be able to communicate not only in your own language but also in a foreign language. That is why people learn languages. The most important language of all is our mother tongue. We learn it from very young and it stay with us until we die. When we want to learn a new language‚ we must know our own very well. There are many different people and everyone learns a foreign language in his own way. For some people to learn
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Refer the theories of language acquisition (Behaviorist theories‚ nativist theories and interactionist theories) and write an evaluation of them.Consider the stages of language acquisition in the evaluation of these theories. Human language development is a huge debate between Nature Vs Nurture within theorists of various fields in psychology.There are three major schools of thought that will be mainly focused on; behaviourist‚ nativist (rationalist)
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Language and the brain Many people assume the physical basis of language lies in the lips‚ the tongue‚ or the ear. But deaf and mute people can also possess language fully. People who have no capacity to use their vocal cords may still be able to comprehend language and use its written forms. And human sign language‚ which is based on visible gesture rather than the creation of sound waves‚ is an infinitely creative system just like spoken forms of language. But the basis of sign language
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Soriano Associate in Computer Science 2 Assembly Language An assembly language is a low-level programming language for a computer‚ microcontroller‚ or other programmable device‚ in which each statement corresponds to a single machine code instruction. Each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture‚ in contrast to most high-level programming languages‚ which are generally portable across multiple systems. Assembly language is converted into executable machine code by a utility
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