knowledge that depend on language and literature have distinguished themselves for the last 50 years, in order to find common ground between literature and language. Unfortunately, this attempt was not completely successful. occupying a common ground requires to work on some detailed differences in understanding terminology and literary terms. More importantly, common ground location and boundaries must be appointed conspicuously. The literary law is the paragon of a common language use that brings out
civilization. In the late 9th and early 8th century BC, the language found was based on the Phoenician syllabary, written from left to right and back again. This form of inscription is the closest to the modern language of today Athens was conquered in the fourth century B.C. by King Philip of Macedonia. Alexander the Great, Philip’s son, who was tutored by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, set out to conquer the world and spread Greek culture and language. Because Alexander spoke Attic Greek, it was this dialect
Introduction According to Alexander Pope [2002] "translation is the realizing of meanings and effects in one language that correspond in some way to the meanings and effects realized in another". The inherency perspective of translation discusses the reliability and equivalence between the target and the source language. Equivalence is a similarity in function or meaning between language choices, whether of grammatical pattern, lexis or cohesion, especially when applied to translated texts. The socio-cultural
For existentialism , the study of problems of everyday life, the pattern of behavior and living, the quest for emancipation and acceptance to the complexities of human life serve as the dominating themes in a text. Jean-Paul Sartre in his attempt to formulate the grounds for the intelligibility of everyday life in relation to historical totalization he elaborates a theory of subjectivity in relation to practice and conditions of production. Sartre denouncing the-the fetishizing the immediacy of
Yet, not everyone agreed. Michel de Montaigne saw the dangers inherent in language: to him, rhetoric was something designed to persuade the ignorant, to deceive and flatter. Early on, he admitted that the function of grammatical jargon was to give great importance to concepts that were really very simple. The popular mode of verbal expression in the sixteenth century, the popular rhetoric, depended upon amplification and illustration. In The Art of English Poesy, George Puttenham explains that the
into another language or into one's own from another language. It requires mastery of the target language and very good knowledge of the source language. Translation is certainly not a simple task. It requires to be able to handle and overcome the linguistic and semantic issues that are associated with translating texts. Creativity is an inevitable aspect of the translation process translations should always be natural and sound as if the text was originally written in the language. It is an important
" A national language is the structure of several forms of a language such as the fictitious language, accepted conversational varieties of the language, and dialects. In the course of the configuration of a national language, the relationship between literary language and vernacular endures a considerable change. The national literary language is the most important developing form of a language; it regularly displaces the dialects that dominated the earlier stages
considered a central aspect of both language teaching and learning. Indeed, until not too many years ago, success in the study of the English language was synonymous of mastery the grammatical rules of the language. Yet, this particular view began to change with the emergence of some other fields of linguistics which give now importance to other relevant extralinguistic factors such as intention or context. But, what is grammar? how important is it within the process of language teaching/learning? How has
these vibrations, they are either deaf or hard of hearing. Sign Language is the use of facial expressions, fingerspelling, and gestures that represent whole phrases or words used to communicate with deaf or hard of hearing people used to communicate with deaf and hard of hearing citizens (lifeprint). Learning the who, what, where, and when of Deaf history can help increase the world’s understanding of the Deaf. American Sign Language has many roots, not only in the ideas of 18th century France, but
Figurative Language Demonstrated by the Idea of Choice in “The Road Not Taken” Choice can be defined as making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. Robert Frost composed “The Road Not Taken” for a friend, Edward Thomas, intending for the poem to be a joke. Although Frost had opposite intentions, many critics in the modern day interpret the poem as a complex writing about making meaningful decisions and choices. “The Road Not Taken” was created in 1916 and originally titled “Two