Linguistics Essays

Does Babbling Have a Linguistic Purpose?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Babbling has no linguistic purpose and is merely motor activity resulting from the opening and closing of the mouth and jaw. Examine this claim in light of cross-linguistic evidence, paying parti...

Comparison of South African and Jamaican English
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: This essay will give brief linguistic descriptions of two varieties of English, one that formed in the South of Africa and the other located in Jamaica. The English of South Africa start...

Treatment Methods of Auditory Comprehension in Individuals with Aphasia
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Understanding language is significant to social reciprocity within family, peer groups, professional settings, and everyday society. When an individual is diagnosed with aphasia, specifically Wer...

Gender Differences in Word Processing
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Gender Differences in Word Processing Abstract Word processing is essential for people to express and communicate their thoughts and feelings in order to establish social and i...

Creation of Humour through Non-Observance of Grice Maxims in Quite Interesting TV Show
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Creation of Humour through Non-Observance of Grice Maxims in Quite Interesting TV Show. Language and pragmatic have always been a really interesting field in which some scholars and...

Effects of Bilingualism on the Acquisition of a Third Language
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: An analysis of the effects of bilingualism on the acquisition of a third language. Literature review The study of third language acquisition combines two fields which have in p...

EFL learners’ confidence and fluency communication
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Research Method Major Assignment Autumn Term Design for my own research project Introduction The topic area of this research is EFL learners’ confidence and fluency ...

Does Age of Acquisition Have an Influence on Lexical Access and Selection in Late Bilinguals?
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Title:Does age of acquisition have an influence on lexical access and selection in late bilinguals? Introduction: This dissertation will be a critical review of data primarily ...

Role of Language Policy and Planning and Language Revitalisation
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: With reference to one of the minority languages within the British Isles, discuss the role of language policy and planning and language revitalisation.     One of the flo...

Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction in Second Language Acquisition
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Literature Review Samah Alzayadi Cornerstone University Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction in Second Language Acquisition Grammar instruction has ...

Basics of Hmong Phonology
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Hmong is a language that has finite resources. With most of the linguistic studies done in the late ’80s and early ‘90s, there are a limited amount of studies done about the Hmong language. ...

Study of the New York Accent
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jul 2018
Introduction: Amanda Bjork Why Do They “Tawk” Like Dat? A Brief Study of the New York City Accent New York can easily be called the biggest collection of villages in the world, a melting pot of nearly all th...

Memory and Language Acquisition
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: Memory and language acquisition Abstract The study of second language acquisition through the analysis of the language learners mental process and strategies seeing how researchers investigate on lang...

Sociolinguistics as a Way of Adjustment in Conversation
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: INTRODUCTION This study is aiming to examine how different strategies and processes are used in sociolinguistics as a way of adjustment of the writer’s manner of address in relation to his or he...

Development of Early Child Narratology
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Oct 2017
Introduction: Aims: I aim to evaluate how the structure and composition of early child narratology develops and evolves with age. To conduct this evaluation I will approach local primary schools for examples of sh...

Analysis of Obama's Speeches
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Oct 2017
Introduction: Style-Shifting in President Obama’s speeches Abstract President Obama is known to shift style during his speeches through his tenure. The style-shift of the President Obama speech can denot...

Discourse of Language in Our Lives
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Oct 2017
Introduction: Discourse of Language in Our Lives Introduction When a human start living in this world, then he adopts set of rules and properties that become his identity and sometimes there are certain traits tha...

History and Application of Translation
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Sep 2017
Introduction:  L. Saunders 1. History of translation Language is the most important process in people s lives either if it’s written, spoken or non-verbal. People would not be able to socialize or interac...

Analysis of Media Text
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Sep 2017
Introduction: TMA02 The first analysed text is an article published in 2016 in Guardian: “Maria Sharapova provisionally banned from tennis after revealing failed drug tests”, written by Carpenter. (Ap...

Discourse Analysis of Opening Speeches at Shangri La
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: INTRODUCTION Rationale Under the growing trend towards globalization, English is known as the most preferable language used in every field of man’s life. No one can deny the usefulness of this...

The Process of Literary Translation
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: 2.1 Literary Translation Translation process is an artistic communication between the author, the translator and the reader and the words used by the translator constitutes the major part in the pro...

Leon's Theory of Language Development
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2017
Introduction: The learning process of language in children is shaped by the social phenomena that the child is immersed in, where these social phenomena be non-verbal or verbal dyadic or polyadic interactions bet...

Prototype Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2017
Introduction: PROTOTYPE THEORY and DEFINITIONS: THE ROLE OF BASIC FACTORS, LEARNT KNOWLEDGE and CULTURE – a small-scale empirical study – 1. Introduction The purpose of the present empirical research p...

Vocabulary Learning Strategies
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: Related researches in China In China, researches on students’ learning styles have attracted a lot of researchers to this area. The most impressive researches are conducted by Wang Churning (198...

The Future of British Sign Language
Example essay. Last modified: 24th May 2017
Introduction: The future of British sign language: Towards one variety or a variety of languages. When discussing the future of British Sign Language we must first define sign language and British Sign Language (BS...