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Papers On Linguistics, Speech, & Hearing
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Language, Culture And The Global Media
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A 25 page paper. Linguists have predicted that more than half, as many as 90 percent of the 6,000 languages being used today will be extinct by 2050. Languages are becoming extinct at far greater ratios than are mammals and birds. The effect is that there are also cultures that die when the language dies because language is one of the defining characteristics of a culture. This essay provides a look at global immigration patterns with data; a discussion of endangered languages; a discussion of language as a unifying element in culture as well as a barrier to communication; and the possibility of a universal language and what that might be. Interwoven are comments about the media and their roles. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: PGlngmd.rtf
Language, Thought & Rhetoric
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A 7 page essay/research paper that discusses, first of all, the centrality of language to cognitive processes, arguing that language forms, specifically "proto-metaphors," incline the language user toward perceiving reality in pre-determined ways. Then, broadening the discussion to include rhetoric, the relationships between language, thought and rhetoric are examined, specifically exploring how rhetoric relates to both language and thought, and argues that historical concepts of rhetoric are too limiting because they focus, for the most part, only on the orator and do not give equal weight to how the auditor perceives the orator's message. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khltr.rtf
Language: Humans And Other Animals
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses the origin of language, whether animals utilize language and the aspect of dialects. No bibliography.
Filename: TLCanlng.wps
Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?
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5 pages in length. In today's globalized society, there is no social downside for children to acquire another language beyond their mother tongue; to have the ability to speak two languages in the world's multicultural environment serves as a solidifying component for raising a more worldly and accomplished child. From a linguistic standpoint, there are both strengths and weaknesses associated with young child simultaneously learning two languages which bring forth a collection of reasons why there are a combination of benefits as well as costs for the bilingual child; two of the greatest concerns of early bilingualism include code switching and how the process of language acquisition is challenged when more than one is learned at once. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TLCSecLangChld.rtf
Learning a Second Language:
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This 5 page paper discusses both the difficulties and successes associated with learning a second launguage. This paper discusses perceptiual saliency, connectionism, information processing, and Noam Chomsky's theory of language among others. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: GSSecLan.rtf
Learning and Testing in a Second Language
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15 pages. Testing techniques in a second language course are numerous and there are mixed results depending upon the type of testing that is done. One test is called the cloze test, which is discussed in this paper. There are ways that linguistic instructors can adapt this particular test so that it can be more easily understood and modified to meet the needs of particular students. Also discussed are some of the difficulties encountered in language testing and requirements and how measurements can be determined to be accurate. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: JGA2lang.rtf
Learning and Utilizing Language
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A 3 page reaction paper to “Language and Education,” which appears in Life-Span, Human Development by Carol K. Sigelman and Elizabeth A. Rider. This is a fascinating chapter in that it addresses the development of what is arguably the defining characteristic of what it means to be “human,” which is the ability to use language. This point is illustrated through the authors’ opening paragraph, which refers to Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind from infancy, and how the ability to communicate through sign language connected her connected her to her family and society. The chapter then describes in detail how young children acquire language. No additional sources cited and the bibliography is incomplete.
Filename: khreasp.rtf
Learning Language
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A 4 page research paper that discusses why young children acquire language so easily and why older children and adults have difficulty learning a second language. Chomsky's theory is described. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khllac.rtf
Lexical Cohesion
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An 11 page paper that presents the concept of lexical cohesion as designed by Halliday and Hasan, and demonstrates that there are a number of reason this concept is problematic. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: Lexicalc.wps
Linguistic Analysis/Emails :
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An 11 page research paper that examines the linguistics of Internet language and specifically analyzes the language of emails. Citing Cyrstal (2001), the writer examines whether or not there are linguistic features that transcend the variety of email audience and purposes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khemails.rtf
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