Lingua Sphere

The distinctive language style that appears in male and female speech mostly covers three basic points. They are the use of vocabularies...

The most obvious function of language is probably to communicate information. However, language also can contribute to at least two ...

Cross-cultural diversity in language use Although such theories of the universality of language use clearly contain a certain degree of tr...

    In this step, we look for problem as many as possible. This problem statement is based on primer problem on background problem. The pro...

Language is a power used to make one’s statement stronger. Someone uses language to influence people. Moreover, it can hide the fact to av...

Hymes' SPEAKING in Ethnography Hymes, a sociolinguist, anthropologist, a folklorist of languages of the Pacific Northwest, and the f...

According to McCrimmon (1963:135-142), language styles are divided into three general types: 1. Formal Style Formal English is primari...

Sometimes in our daily lives, we can find acts that do not satisfy the “face wants” of the speaker and the hearer. The acts that threaten e...

Brown and Levinson (1987) define politeness as behaving a way that attempts to take into account the feeling of people being addressed. In ...

Taboos objects classified into animals, excretion, name of God and person, swearing, ominous expressions, part of human body, and certain...

Under the terms of language, taboo is one of scientific phenomenon, which is interesting to discuss, because every society has its own w...

Some of slang expressions are acceptable and the others are a rude and impolite. Words or phrases may be considered as slang if they fulfi...

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

Apology occurs when someone recognizes that he has performed an action or an utterance which has insulted other person, such as offendi...

         People speak differently because they have presumably different language variation. They use d...

Based on the Weinstein idea, language planning is a government authorized long-term, sustained, and conscious effort to alter a language f...

There is an agreement among the linguists that there is no variety of language as inherently much better than the any other. All languages ...

1.       Pertanian di Negara berkembang Pada umumnya Negara berkembang adalah Negara pertanian, dala...

Claude Lévi-Strauss is the best known and most influential structuralist. Because of his influence, Lévi-Strauss is an excellent example of...

There are several important points to discuss in this chapter: diglossia, bilingualism and multilingualism, code choice, code switching, ...