Essays on Linguistics

More than three billion people around the world use social media. An average person spends about two hours every day, liking, sharing and posting. English has become commonly used in media, we are constantly being subjected to it. With so many people around the world…

Cohesion is considered as a semantic concept that combines the various parts of text in smooth way and gives it meaning that sender aims to deliver; Halliday and Hasan (1976) define it as “relations of meaning that exist within a text and that define it…

Error is quite different to mistake, it is as a fault in learning second or foreign language. Second or foreign language students not only make mistake, they have only an incomplete knowledge of the target language, and they are not always able to correct the…

“Could you put it next to the lamp, over there…look at my finger”. Even though every single word in this sentence is clear and understandable, a listener wouldn’t be able to work out the entire meaning of it. In this case “my” refers to the…

Language and terminology constantly change. What was once considered normal or comedic could be considered inappropriate and offensive today. Recently, the term ‘political correctness’, a term that means we use language that advocates replacing offensive terms and labels with more neutral terms, has become prominent…

Azuike (1992) “has an expand efficient guide on the best way to dissect style both semantically and abstractly. He watches that diverse stylisticians devise their own particular techniques for examination; consequently, there might be numerous methodology of investigation. Perusing and getting a handle on the…

Oral corrective feedback (hereafter, OCF) has played a pivotal role in second language acquisition, both in research and pedagogy, throughout the years. It is a kind of feedback that highly contributes to language learning, promotes learner’s motivation, and ensures linguistic accuracy, which are considered fundamental…

It is clear that men and women have a variety factors that make them distinctly different. They are different by their physical appearance, their beliefs and on an interesting note, their speech patterns. Between men and women, there are identifiable linguistic features that support the…

Language is a significant need of every individual to express their views, feelings and most importantly to communicate with each other. However, imagine a scenario where a person would be separated from their native language. One will lose his tradition and culture. Unfortunately, there are…

Throughout our IA, we managed to analyze our statistical modeling with new fields of mathematics. We defined and applied linear algebra with Matrix multiplication, and derived some significant probabilities of the model. We started with 2 by 2 matrix to gain some insight, where it…