Losing our Language: The Deterioration of the English Language The English language has and continues to rapidly evolve within the United States and around different places throughout the world. Even though there is uniformity in the Standard English language‚ it also exists in many varieties such as dialects and registers as stated by John Algeo in The Origins and Development of the English Language. Dialects are a variety of languages that are associated with a specific place‚ social level‚ ethnic
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A KILLER LANGUAGE It is undeniable that English language is a powerful language. It is spoken in most part of the world especially in developed countries for instance the United States‚ Great Britain‚ and Canada. This is an inescapable process of globalization‚ the process of extending social relations across world-space. Globalization leads to the commonness of English in several fields such as science‚ technology‚ economy‚ politic etc. The result of this is English dominating the world and disregarding
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country with colonial superiority had majority influence meaning the struggle to be part of the most prestigious empire was at the heart of the many countries around Europe. As Crowe stated‚ ‘The dream of a colonial empire had taken a deep hold on the German public opinion.’ This craving for international power led to strained relations and various clashes in the build up to WW1‚ for example‚ the First Moroccan Crisis. France (and Britain) issued a programme of reform to bring Morocco stability‚ and in
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the world and two of the most common dogs are Chihuahuas and German Shepherds. Each completely the opposite of each other like Chihuahuas barely shed‚ are low energy and do not eat much and vice versa with German Shepherds. For people who wouldn’t want a house full of dog hair then low shedding dogs such as the Chihuahuas would be ideal. If you don’t mind cleaning every day and would make the sacrifice to get a good dog then a German shepherd would meet the criteria. Along with pet hair dogs also
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English as a World Language. The global spread of English over the last 50 years is remarkable. It is unprecedented in several ways: by the increasing number of users of the language‚ by its depth of permeation ["pE:mI’eISn] into societies and its range of functions. There is a model consisting of 3 circles proposed by B.B. Kachru in 1982 in order to describe regional varieties of English. The 1st or inner circle includes people who speak English as their vernacular language (200-400 mln speakers)
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has several languages. There are those‚ like Hebrew and Aramaic‚ that are typically used in more scholarly settings‚ though recently Hebrew has had its revival and can be widely spoken and used by Jewish people everywhere‚ particularly in Israel. There is Yiddish‚ the language typically spoken in the home‚ with a common ancestor to the German language. Other regional languages exist within the Jewish community‚ such as Ladino or Judeo Arabic‚ but Jewish people also often learn the language of the country
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Language is a dominant part within day to day life and is a building block of our society‚ due to it’s importance in the way humans communicate with one another. Language does not only show one’s ideas‚ emotions‚ but also thoughts. If in today’s society the government eliminated all expressive words and left people with the simplest form of a language‚ the aftermath and whole concept of having language in the first place would be not only philistine‚ but also dangerous. An example of strong manipulation
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INTRODUCTION Let me first define Language‚ Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication‚ or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses is called linguistics. Psycholinguistics or Psychology of Language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire‚ use‚ comprehend and produce language. Initial forays into psycholinguistics
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Globalization and Language Globalization is the process of something becoming global‚ being transformed from a local or regional phenomena into a global one. With globalization‚ there is a movement of people coming together‚ unifying into a single society and functioning together. This process is not only an economic one‚ but also affects the technologies‚ politics‚ and cultures of the entire world. It is facilitated by the media of communications. Through radio and satellite information‚ we
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Languages‚ dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today‚ and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`‚ ´Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main language of Sweden and is spoken approximately by 10 million people. Although until 2009 it was not the official language. The reason for that was
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