“Endangered languages should be saved” Many languages are at the danger of disappearance. The reason of their extinction could be the decrease in a number of people speaking that language. A 85% of 6000 languages appear to be spoken in 25 countries (NOW 2000). Language extinction is caused by external and internal factors. Internal forces such as community’s negative behaviour to mother language‚ or simply decrease in the number of speakers are mainly derived from factors such as military‚ economic
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Language Identity Are the people who become fluent in a second or third language at risk of losing their own identity? Language has been a way of communicating with each other for thousands of years‚ maybe even more. Since the day we were born we started to learn to speak the language of our fatherland and we’re all still learning. I don’t believe that you can necessarily lose your identity because you speak two or three languages. Identity is a very big word to use and is influenced by many
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1) What are the functions of language? (450 – 500 words) All forms of human life communicate with each other and humans are not unique in this capacity. Human forms of communication include verbal forms‚ body language and gestures. However‚ this communication system is learned instead of being biologically inherited. Children for example‚ acquire a language as they develop and grow and this miraculous language ‘instint’ (Pinker 1994) seems‚ at first glance‚ to happen effortlessly. As Romaine
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ELL204/05 Society and Language (A) Four Dimensions of Sociolinguistic by Holmes (2008) Believe it or not? since the earth start until now‚ people talk ‚ people communicate for transfer their information or convey their feeling to other . Languages play an important role in this process of transfer. Every day we speak‚ but sometime we will say the same thing in different way .What makes us use the different way to speak? In fact‚ these are some factor that will cause us to change
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Definition of Language Language Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically‚ human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds‚ expressive of thought‚ articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. The expression of ideas by writing‚ or any other instrumentality. The forms of speech‚ or the methods of expressing ideas‚ peculiar to a particular nation. The characteristic mode of arranging words‚ peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression;
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Introduction Across 294 countries in the world‚ there are about 6‚500 languages are commonly using in the daily life. The domination of English has been proved as an international language all across with the coming of globalization in future‚ English is the language of diplomacy and international communications for the use of business‚ tourism‚ education‚ science‚ computer technology‚ media‚ Internet and etc. Without language‚ all the things couldn’t happen and stay in place like today. People
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Role of the language Language is innovative. It develops every time. All of us use it in different ways. Language has roles for our primary necessity. The roles can be seen in two areas‚ in social environment and education. First‚ we can use language in social environment. The language is used for communication. We use language as a device to get a good communication. Language make us easy to communicate each other. For example‚ when we want to give some ideas‚ we can use language to show
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anNadine Abo Laban 900113591 Gap paper 2 (Armenian Language) Introduction The guest speaker who graced us with her presence was Alyssah Depoya‚ who is of Armenian origin. According to Alyssah‚ all pure Armenians last names end with “yan” which acts as an indicator of whether the person is of pure Armenian origin. Armenia is a mountainous country located in the South Caucasus region in Eurasia. It is bordered by Turkey‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijan and Iran (“Armenia”‚ n.d). Armenian people have a
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A room designed for learning foreign languages and equipped with tape recorders‚ videocassette recorders‚ or computers connected to monitoring devices enabling the instructor to listen and speak to the students individually or as a group is called a language laboratory. It is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. They can be found‚ amongst other places‚ in schools‚ universities and academics. The language laboratory is very useful for assessing students’
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What is language? What is lexicon? Language can be fundamental defined by most of the general public today‚ but lexicon may not easily be explained. In ones general opinion‚ language is a form of communicating ideas‚ emotions‚ and opinions. It varies according to the culture and generation of the individuals using it. This paper provides a definition of language and lexicon‚ the features of language‚ the levels of language‚ and the role of language in cognitive psychology. (Willingham‚ 2007)What
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