Essays on Language Diversity

The challenges in bridging the gap of student alienation in school settings has been a hot topic in the media in recent years. Alienation can be defined as “a decreasing sense of belonging in terms of learning, teachers and classmates at school” (Hascher & Hadjar,…

My favourite character in the Chinese language is “聽” (tīng), the word for “listen”. The “耳” (êr) on the left is the character for “ear”, which, of course, is used to listen to others, whilst the “王” (wáng) below represents “king”, implying that respect should…

Language is intricately bound up with culture. It is an expressive product of culture that performs diverse functions to facilitate communicative interaction. Idiomatic expressions functions as one of these communicative interactions. This essay investigates one such idiom in its distinct cultural identity. This is done…

Language plays an important role in shaping our personality. Language helps us to express ourselves in the way we are. It shaped how you communicate, thoughts, feelings. Language is also very important in developing the culture of the society. Because of language, we know how…

The International Phonetic Alphabet also known as the (IPA) was created in the 19th century. The IPA was created to help with the pronunciation of different languages. For example, one of the goals of the International Phonetic Alphabet was to provide a unique symbol for…

Linguistically, kinships are intrinsically relational, as a kinship expression relates an individual to another. The phrase “my father is sick” contains a referent and an anchor, being “my father” and “I” respectively. While this phrase contains an explicit anchor as the morpheme “my” anchors the…