Anna Wiezbicka Language Analysis

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What they want to do is also retain their own language, culture, and identity” (164-167). Here, Espada highlights how language helps people absorb new cultures and offer a wider perception of our world, but that people also want to keep their sense of self-worth without losing

To lack in the aspect of these connections often results in assimilation into society and separation from origins. Skryznecki highlights a relationship of admiration towards his father in the metaphorical hyperbole as he wonders ‘Why his (Feliks) arms didn’t fall off/ from the soil he turned/ and the tobacco he rolled’, Skryznecki is in awe of his father, defining Feliks from his perspective as a man of discipline and fortitude. As an audience, we gather that Feliks has created a place of belonging and connected atmosphere through rewarding attributes and tradition that even ‘his polish friends’ embody. However, disconnection is accentuated as Skryznecki describes that they ‘always shook hands too violently’ with the use of traditional full names ‘Feliks Skryznecki/ that formal address’ that he ‘never got used to’, it is evident that Skryznecki is excluded, unfamiliar with his polish culture and lacking understanding of his traditions. The use of first person allows for a deeper reflection and sense of regret as Skryznecki ‘forgot (his) first polish word’ whilst Feliks ‘repeated it so I never forgot/ After that, like a dumb prophet/ watching me pegging my tents further south of Hadrian’s Wall’, the reinforced limited connection to his heritage is exhibited through the loss of his language that leads to the lack of identity with Skryznecki’s culture, instead assimilating into Australian culture.

Typical news programs use very different language than WTNV. The language is extremely concise and professional as so to convey the important events quickly and clearly; the difference is because the shortened professional diction is inconvenient for storytelling, and loses the moods and emotions that the podcast relies on. The following is an excerpt from a transcript from 1010 WINS, a New York based radio news station: The small plane that carried New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle to his death flew one of the city 's most popular routes for sightseeing pilots, a largely unmonitored corridor that some lawmakers have tried to close for years because of safety and security concerns. Many of those officials expressed shock Thursday that small aircraft are still allowed to fly so close to the skyline in a post-Sept. 11 era.

To Pedro Calderon de la Barca “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises”. The beauty of nature is ceaseless. However, with the rise in pollution, The Crying Indian- Classic PSA draws awareness to the audience about the danger of contamination. The contrast between the Native American and the people of the present day, the powerful image of pollution, the destruction of nature symbolizing the obliteration of Native Americans’ lives who value nature as their habitat for humanity, carries visual images that dramatized how every individual should recycle, prevent litters, and beautify America by taking responsibility for improving the community environments.

Worthy Words Impact Throughout the world, language remains the one entity every different culture possesses, guiding cultural practices, traditions, and social activities. Language is the way every individual expresses their feelings and shares their perspectives. Communication allows everyone to survive. It carries much power in today’s society. Words remain a powerful platform for people and influence others in a positive or negative manner.

Steinbeck’s description and language of the first appearance of Curley’s wife give the readers a negative impression and hatred towards her. The contrast between her appearance “full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up” and “cotton house dress and red mules”, with the filthy environment of the ranch suggests strong sexuality and flirtation. “Heavily made up” is often associated with a prostitute and by using this phrase to describe Curley’s wife, Steinbeck wants to convince the audience that she is trying to catch the ranch men attentions in order to sleep with them. In the ranch, the workers’ clothes are offten made out of denim for toughness. However, Curley’s wife wanders around the ranch in a “red”, which symbolises strong coquetry, cotton house dress.

On the earth, people speak different languages, and the languages give people different identities and become a signal for their background. According to the language, people can clearly understand where are they come from, and you can also find the sense of belongings. The language can connect a lot of memories in the childhood about mother tongue and the environment of living. The complicated living environment always can bring diverse feelings and memories. In the same way, this environment can give them various opinions and help them toward the world and society.

In the novel, Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey used a vast range of language and textual features including Symbolism, Allusion, Connotation, Similes and word choice. This is done to construct the character of Charlie as someone that opposes the social norms in the town and supports his close friend, Jasper who is judged and victimised by his race and family history. The town’s people of Corrigan all follow the same path or social norms, that were apparent in the 1960’s and what teenagers should learn, is that you should not let your peers dictate your beliefs and values, making your own choices, like Charlie. When Jasper comes knocking at Charlies window, the audience is lead to believe that Charlie has been given a chance to be reborn and portray

Throughout generations cultural traditions have been passed down, alongside these traditions came language. The language of ancestors, which soon began to be molded by the tongue of newer generations, was inherited. Though language is an everlasting changing part of the world, it is a representation of one’s identity, not only in a cultural way but from an environmental standpoint as well. One’s identity is revealed through language from an environmental point of view because the world that one is surrounded with can cause them to have their own definitions of words, an accent, etc. With newer generations, comes newer forms of languages.

Shakespeare 's use of language through prose and verse highlights the connections between the issues addressed by the play’s premise and those of its lively times. One of the keys to understanding vernacular in The Taming of the Shrew is about relevance that is given to the power and strength that it had when artfully executed. Mutually, influenced and received by Elizabethan unfavorable realities of roles of women and men social constructs. The situation of women during Elizabethan era also known as the epoch within the Tudor period are moments that celebrated basic qualities of a subordinate female as an expected cultural affair. Openly, impacted and predisposed by the domestic or relationship-based hierarchies of the period.

In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader is taken on a literary journey to the western front of World War One on the German side in order to experience what it’s like through the eyes of a young German soldier. Part of the novel’s appeal lies in its descriptive themes which help the reader get a better visual image of what is happening in the book. Stylistic devices such as imagery, figurative language, and setting are used throughout the novel to explain something in a better way, help you getter a better picture of what’s going on, and understand where the event is taking place. Initially, Remarque uses figurative language to compare something to something else to add more description to the object he is talking

Our identity is a place upon many attributes of a human being. Whether the person is someone who goes on promoting themselves to the world or not, and it shows how people communicate to others around them. Language is one of the main components that unveils the person’s identity in their everyday life, and they are many different ways to approach a person’s language. Relating to the article of Yiyun Li, “To Speak is to Blunder,” she knows two languages that has its positive and negative outcomes in her life. I to relate to her understanding of language, but a different view of what language means to me.

I really enjoyed listening to Judith Kroll’s virtual lecture on “Bilingual Minds and Brains Across the Lifespan”. I had known from other classes that being bilingual improved a person’s executive function and that young infants had the capability to differentiate between different languages, but much of the information Dr. Kroll provided was new and truly eye-opening. For me, the most interesting part of the lecture was how being bilingual protected against symptoms of Alzheimer’s for such a long period of time. When Dr. Kroll said that even at age 21 I have begun my cognitive decline that was a bit disheartening but when she said that being bilingual has a lot of cognitive advantages I was very intrigued.

Modern technological advancements have led to great innovations in language use in multimodal discourses. Innovation is one way of transforming the resources of an enterprise through the creativity of people into new resources and wealth. Language in television advertisements uses verbal and visual modes of signification to craft their discourses and it is a rich site from which to observe the creative application of multimodality. This poses challenges to viewers because in multimodal discourses, viewers are faced with the changing phenomenon in which language per se is being displaced by sound and image, taking over tasks associated with the role of language. It is this synergy across semiotic modalities that we analyze in one Always sanitary