Lingua Sphere

Language and Advertisement - Language has a powerful influence over people and their behavior. This is especially true in the fields of ...

A rhetorical figure is known as an artful deviation. Since antiquity dozens of figures have been catalogued, ranging from the familiar (rh...

More than one million of the students served in the public schools' special education programs in the 1997-98 school years were categor...

    There are some foundation principles of language assessment were introduced. Concepts like practicality, reliability, validity, authent...

Nowadays, as the world keeps developing, the presence of the media becomes crucial since it is the most effective medium to spread out the ...

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in communication. The pragmatic of language is concerned with audience-directed intention-h...

Definition Slang is a specific word, phrase, or utterance, which is commonly used by young people in their community. It refers to unconve...

Di waktu sekarang, lagu anak anak tidaklah setenar jaman semuda saya dulu. Waktu kecil, beberapa channel di TV bahkan menyediakan acara khu...

English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th Century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany....

Descriptive research does not fit neatly into the definition of either quantitative or qualitative research methodologies, but instead it c...

  The phrase we hear is not always reveal the meaning of each combination of words in the sentence. It oft...

In this global era, English is considered as an international communication media. There is a dozen of ways to facilitate us in studying Eng...

Discourse Originally the word 'discourse' comes from Latin 'discursus' which denoted 'conversation, speech'. Accord...

Actually there is no agreement among linguists as to the use of the term discourse in that some use it in reference to texts, while others ...

Written language is used in formal form and informal form. In formal form of written language,  you must follow the characteristic of writi...

In a normal speech communication situation, a speaker tries to influence the listener by making him perceive, understand, and feel at the s...

  Introduction Discourse generally is refers to spoken language and written language. There are differencies between both of them in heare...

BACKGROUND Students of all ages may find them hard to read, and we know from various research report that, in English at least, the diffic...

    Code-switching is the process of changing language from one language to another, like from Indonesian language to English. There are th...

After the design of sentences is made, the speaker should consider the constituent to form the sentence. A word is selected by the speaker ...