English language is one of the most important and official languages in many countries. English language has many purposes and can be used in many different ways. It can be used in person communication; people use it as a language to understand and communicate between each other. Business communication; business men and workers use English language to expand their work, get more opportunities, build and improve international relationships, help their company to succeed, communicate to trust the colleagues and clients. Entertainment communication; a huge number of famous people usually communicate by using the English language. A huge number of top movies, music and books and published and produced in English. People use dictionaries to understand and learn more about a language. A Dictionary is a book …show more content…
Johnson shared a disquiet with grammarians that the English language would change beyond confession. When the English language had been fixed by the grammarians, eighteenth century lexicographers like Johnson who concentrated to slow the changes in language so that it would be easier for future generations to able to read and understand English. Johnson’s dictionary helped the future generation by settling the language and making it more understandable. “In all, there are over 114,000 quotations in the dictionary. Johnson was the first English lexicographer to use citations in this way, a method that greatly influenced the style of future dictionaries. He had scoured books stretching back to the 1500s, often quoting from those thought to be 'great works ' such as Milton or Shakespeare.” (The British Library, Literary quotations). In the eighteenth century, the language changed due to the time of the empire. Because of the people who came from foreign countries to England for commercial trading purposes, the language was affected from both foreign countries and England. “Johnson argued that as a country grows, so does the language.” (Seargeant and Swann, 2012, p.
Shakespeare - Man, Myth, or Legend? Thousands of kids learn about Shakespeare and his stories everyday, but is Shakespeare just one man? Growing up, teachers taught kids hundreds of facts about Shakespeare, but hearing that only 5 or 6 facts about Shakespeare are factual is surprising. Curiosity peaked, the search for truth about Shakespeare began.
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The next thing he did for the education field was that he started working on defining American words and changing the spellings of the English words to make it easier for Americans. The article states that he changed the
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Creations, like most things in life, are improvable. Ideas and theories are always evolving into different ideas or more sophisticated ones. Discourse communities is a term that has been debated over the years. Three of those debaters are James Paul Gee, James P. Porter, and John Swales. In this essay I will analyze what each of these writers see as the definition of a discourse community while comparing specific points that each of them have regarding their personal view on the subject.
Often known as the Father of American Literature to many educated individuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson in his oration “The American Scholar” brilliantly provides a sublime example of how Emerson earned his title through the appliance of diction, syntax, allusions, and many other rhetorical devices and strategies. Indicated towards his highly educated audience, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Emerson introduces the idea that the common class and common concepts of everyday life are becoming the future of art and literature through purpose, credibility, and tone. As many great writers, Emerson does not simply tell about his idea, but instead uses rhetorical strategies to help show his central point, one such strategy being purpose. Being focused on informing his audience of the coming days, the use of purpose can be
They relied mostly on spoken word as the only form of communication, and as a result, the American Southern dialect contains a more preserved form of sixteenth century English than any other English dialect analyzed to date. The American Southern dialect is considered one of the most complex English dialects in current use. Therefore, it is difficult for linguists to interpret every pattern and rule accurately. The following report touches upon only the most distinctive features of the dialect, as well as the known origins of
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The English language had around 50-6000 words, compared to nowadays where there are around 1,000,000 words, so writers didn’t have as much vocabulary to use as they do today. These writers wanted to express themselves more and so during this time a number of new words were created and added to the English language. Shakespeare created around 1700 words in his works. An example of a slang word he created is “Fustilarian”, which was an insult meaning a “smelly old woman”. Another example of
TITLE: Each student should learn foreign language. GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade people that each of student should learn foreign language MAIN IDEA: - learning foreign language enhance communication skills. - learning foreign language enhance job and career opportunities.
Learning a second language at a younger age is beneficial Most little kids first day of school is when they are approximately five years old, and about to enter kindergarten. Kids go to school from about age five till graduation from high school at about age eighteen. Most schools focus on the basic core subjects, such as math, reading, science and history. Until junior high or high school, foreign language is not even offered.
At the beginning of 17th century, the act of union was passed incorporating Scotland to what now is called Great Britain. Most of the authors at that time show the view that unity of the English language would