Essays on Linguistics

Rāhui is expressed in the Maori language as a ban or restriction on a place of conservation due to the scarcity of resources. New Zealand law has adopted this Maori concept of Rahui and can be seen in legislation as drawing on three of the...

Neuro-Linguistic Programme (NLP) was developed in 1970s and has achieved widespread popularity as a method for communication and personal development. In this report, we outline the nature of Neuro-linguistic programme and also explore the potential for learning and teaching. Through this report we would be...

Europe portrays the complete version of multilingualism environment within a large number of indigenous languages which approximately represents 91% but, with respect to all dialects and accents in Europe, only 24 languages from the total are considered as official according to the European Union, these...

Being able to discriminate two kinds of discourses,truth and lie are very significant for forensic science. Linguistic has a critical value at this point. For this reason, in their study ‘’Between Thinking and Speaking-Linguistic tools for detecting a fabrication’’R.Dilmon et al. tried to describe the...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between Bilingualism and English learning and speaking anxiety. As, the research is concerned with the students of English department students of Karachi University who are suffering from speaking anxiety. Bilingualism and English language learning anxiety...

In the context of theories on child language development, the behaviourist theory of operant conditioning proposed by B. F. Skinner in Verbal Behaviour (1957), is one of the earliest, and arguably considered the most outmoded by many in the field. The basic principle of operant...

The term World Englishes caters many meanings for the different approaches and investigations done by many scholars’ worldwide. It refers to the diverse varieties of English variations particularly those regions influenced by the United States of America. It has many terminologies depending on the country...

Conversations take place in our everyday life. Some of them are planned while others are spontaneous. People make different kinds of conversations such as business meetings with colleagues, chit-chats with friends or family, conversations at the doctor´s, supermarket and so on and so forth. These...

Grammelot could be a variety of language employed in sarcastic theatre, a bunk with Italic and onomatopoeic components, employed in association with mime and mimicry. Grammelot was born in France once the Commedia dell’Arte actors wherever antagonized by the church in European nation throughout the...

What is a verb? Verb is probably if not for sure the most important part of speech in all human languages known. It’s a type of element that is crucial in forming a sentence and asking a question in the same time. So we can...