Linguistic modality Essays

Poetry has always been used as a literary art form to express one’s intense emotions or feelings, but do all poems have a true interpretation of what is being expressed? Many people do not have a keen eye when it comes to reading poetry and have a difficult time interpreting what the author is trying to express. Due to this misunderstanding, the audience lacks interest reading in this type of literary work. Through my journey with poems, I try to see the eye of the author and feel one’s emotions

Sign language linguistics has not been a field in its own since 1960s, when the investigation researches started from a linguistic perspective about sign languages. Sign language was considered as a gesture-based aid only for communicating with people, not a whole language. While the early researches were focusing on explaining the fact that sign languages are not only simple languages, but an equivalent to spoken languages and having the same characteristics as the spoken. The researchers investigated

in academia, even when its application faces much constraint in English language development. What could be so important about a non-linguistic skill in classrooms that are generally devoted to improving linguistic abilities? Critical thinking might play an extra-linguistic role in the context of English language learning, and writing could be one of several modalities used to realize this role in secondary classrooms. It is stated that in the 1970’s, many sociologists and cognitive scientists were

qualitative case study will be applied to my inquiry. Three participants from the Intensive English Program (IEP) of a southeastern university will be selected. These three participants are non-native speakers of English from various social, cultural and linguistic background, who come to the US to pursue their higher education degree (Bachelor’s Degree). They are placed in the IEP program to receive intensive training of English and prepare themselves to be qualified to move to the regular degree program

Textual conversations dissect the universal and resonant values of the human condition surpassing the dissonant contexts of individual texts. Atwood’s metafictional novel ‘Hagseed’ (2016) appropriates Shakespeare’s classic metatheatrical play ‘The Tempest’ (1610), following the protagonist, Prospero (mirrored by Felix in ‘Hagseed’) in an elaborate Mise en Abym towards justice against treacherous enemies. Critic I. Cheng. celebrates Atwood’s innovation of Shakespeare’s play, “Atwood creates a textual

for living. This shows that English language not just a set of corpus, but more to the usage and the needs in real communication among the language users. Many of English language researches have investigated the content within ELC. For instance, IELTS Official Test Centre is a strong reference in evaluating and promoting English language by running English schools in Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan and so on, since 1988. Under IELTS, English language proficiency

Narrative is generally accepted as possessing two components: the story presented and the process of its telling. A story can be presented in two basic ways, as a linear narrative and as a non-linear narrative. Linear narratives follow a straight line and non-linear narratives usually start at in the middle or in the height of conflict. Casablanca and Memento are two films which contrast in narrative approaches. Structure in narrative film can be thought of as the arrangement of scenes and sequences

In How to Read a Poem, Eagleton gives the following definition of a poem: ‘A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement, in which it is the author who decides where the lines should end’. In this definition, the main matters are ‘fictional’, ‘verbal inventiveness’ and ‘morality’. How to Read a Poem gives many explanations and examples of these matters that are discussed in his definition. Fiction, morality and verbal inventiveness all work together to help the author decide where the

PART ONE After completing the Honey and Mumford Learning Styles questionnaire (1992), my results were the following: 13 activist, 12 theorist, 10 pragmatist and my highest was on the reflector with a score of 16. The learning styles show the understanding that we, as people, learn in a different way. In theory, one’s learning style indicates the preferred way in which we absorb, progress, understand and retain information. In addition, understanding one’s individual learning style will help choose

Language and thought were always seen as two different processes, where thought was always taken as the main process. Language was just seen as means of communication, a process of expressing our thoughts to other people, and so, a thought came first, which means that language was developed as that thought was put to words. But then, we later realized that the way a person speaks affects the way they think, and that people of different languages think in different ways. That is why in George Orwell’s

To begin, I am convinced that the Bennets stages of denial, defence, minimisation, acceptance, adaptation and Integration all overlap, and it is therefore very difficult to be just at one stage at one particular time. Having said that, I believe that Bennet’s stage of ‘Adaptation’ best represents the stage to which my intercultural sensitivity has progressed. The English culture is one which has predominantly shaped who I am as a person so, although I am relatively accustomed to the Dutch culture

He never speaks of a god, but realizing that the shell has been there long before man, sheds light on his religious belief. He realizes how different the world would be without the creation of mankind, shows a sense of religion in his writing. Last, Stephens makes his transformation clear in the lines “In the hush of waters was the sound”, “And then I loosed my ear- O it was sweet.” This shows that Stephens realizes his thought of a perfect life, would be far worse than reality. Although in James

How do authors generate ideas when writing? Many authors shape their works by reflecting on occurrences in their lives. While some utilize positive occurrences, more often than not, poets incorporate unpleasant experiences in their compositions. Mary Oliver exhibits this technique by incorporating her tough childhood into her poetry. “…with words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation”

Among the four language skills, reading comprehension has always been the main concern of Iranian ESP instructors (Farhadi, 2005; Sajadi & Oghabi, 2011; Tabatabaei, 2007). In a similar vein, Iranian university students regard reading comprehension as the most important skill (Sajadi & Oghabi, 2011). Williams (1984) classifies reading materials into three categories: (1) getting general information from a text, (2) getting specific information from a text, (3) for pleasure and for interest. Harmer

‘Thinking Through the Male Gaze’ The aim of this paper is to present a position in relation to the function on the male gaze in performance art. For the purpose of this paper, the male gaze theory will be examined through the work of Yoko Ono’s ‘Cut Piece’ (1964). In order to do this, this paper will first introduce the history of the male gaze theory. This paper will then introduce the work of Yoko Ono and her performance ‘Cut Piece’. Having introduced all the above, this paper will have laid out

. Advertising and Morphology There is strong relationship between morphology and advertising, the prefixes and suffixes tend to be of infrequent occurrence, and the copywriter stick or used this simple word to the complex word, for example the word super is used in a peculiar way to advertising as a means of intensifying an adjective, or verb stem superfine, on the other hand the suffix –y-which is highly productive in colloquial, greedy, poppy, mummy. But sometimes the variety of these adjective

The concept of interpenetration implies that, however important logical closure may be as a theoretical ideal, empirically social systems are conceived as open systems, engaged in complicate processes of interchange with environing systems (an outline of the social system). The environing systems are cultural, personality systems, the physical environment and the behaviour of the other subsystems. This idea also applies to social systems and their subsystems each of which is an open systems changing

“Poets Word Choice” Mohamed Gomaa ENGL103-C Dr. Omar Sabbagh I pledge this is my own work   This essay is about the use of word choices and metaphors in poems. I choose this topic because I believe the word choices and metaphors are the most effective way of expressing the meaning of the poem and delivering the feelings of the poet. To prove my point of view am going to discuss the different uses of words choices and metaphors in these poems "The Road Not Taken", "Your Last Drive" And "Afterwards"

The phenomena of migration have been constant since time immemorial. The study of human movement as a field of anthropological enquiry has been considered a departure in the conventional practices to understand migration. Today the subject matter of this field is not only comprehended in terms of its nature i.e. movement of one place to another but as a platform to understand the genesis of such kind of migration. Migration, permanent or temporary change in residence is a movement of people from

There are what are called Oxymorons in English. Paradoxically opposite but reinforces what is being conveyed. Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. Open secret Tragic Comedy Seriously funny Awfully pretty Foolish wisdom Original copies Liquid gas Bank is one institution that will lend money if you can prove that you do not need it. Author: Bob Hope. Learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. Author: Moliere Oscar Wilde has said that