Historical developmment in English!

If we look at historical development of English then we found vast differences in the structure of language between old English to modern English. Actually it is not easily possible to read the text of the old English by us that means in the modern English the form and structure is dramatically different than it was in the old English. Actually even the Shakespearean English which is just the English before four century is even great different than the English which we used today. Some of the words used by Shakespeare are quite peculiar for the modern readers; however some of them are familiar too. If we look at Middle English then we could see even the spelling and sometimes the meaning of the word itself is different too.
Anyway we could figure out that the use of language is vastly different regarding the time. Language is keeps on changing from year to year generation to generation and of course from period to period. If we take it positively then we could say that language is being easier and advance than before. Changes occur there in the language as the part of development.

Week 15!

Today we spent mostly our time by talking about our final project and poster presentation. we did some exercise from Finegan in group which interesting because at first we were having confusion due to not being familiar with the language but as usual due to talent group mates we figure out the answer of the exercise well.

Week 15!

week 14

As usual we were having wonderful class. In this class we were mostly talking about the final project. Our professor asked us to make sure by next week to have the both writing and spoken sample. Then she also asks us to be in group to have help as peers for our final project.

Speech Act and Conversation!

Language in use is really interesting matter. Language is no doubt an effective tool to do things, but most of the time, it is ambiguous that means only language cannot do anything unless and until you don't know the context. To get the semantics of language you must know the context.Because same pragmatics of the linguistic structure could give various semantics. For example a sentence, "I have to tie shoe" could have different meaning, such as if a friend asks with his friend about to go to movie and the friend who is working in the shoe factory might say this sentence to deny the offer of watching movie as he has a business to tie shoe in his factory. Same sentence can be the acceptance to the situation, such as give me a minute I would be ready in a minute after tying my shoes. So the same linguistic structure give different meaning as per the use in the different context.

week 13!

I found this week is as interesting as other week's class. It is a bit different as we get chance to discuss in small group as we usually get an opportunity to discuss in big group first. This week has new feature of playing game which stimulate people to give the answer of the question as the part of game. I found the game part which is the new for the class is really enthusiastic.

Pragmatics!

I found the word order really interesting in this chapter.As book says many languages use the sequential order of noun phrases to mark differences in information structure.In English once the structure of the word order has changed the semantics of the sentence has also changed and it is even exactly the same way with my language too. It is really amazing that in Russian however we scramble the word order still the semantics remains the same.
I wonder if these things is possible even in order language too or just it is possible in Russian!

Week 12!

We are discussing about the pragmatics.Though i have knowledge about the pragmatics, before but after reading the chapter and attend this online class I found some thing new and interesting about the pragmatics. I found the information structure about intonation, Morphology and syntax are really important. When we discuss about the concept of pragmatics I found the ideas more clear.

Registers, Styles, and Dialects!

As book says multilingual countries such as Switzerland, Belgium, and India, different languages are spoken by different group of people. Similarly My country Nepal also has hundred of different tribal languages allocated to specific social situation. But still language choice is not arbitrary thus people speak the language according to the importance of different context. Though different tribe have different languages, still they are compel to use Nepali as their national language and English as the most essential foreign language.People can't survive in academic context of Nepal till they can't speak these two Nepali and English language though they have their own tribal language.Thus they should choose these languages consciously or unconsciously to survive in the academic context.

Week 11!

As usual I found the class very interesting and important. Mostly I like the part when students give their insight about the topic. I think this part help students to understand the chapter better. I really appreciate some of the friends who really made good point. Some time these point help better than the book.