Are Theories Incommensurable Due to the Untranslatability of One Scientific Language to Another?
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
The most famous exponent of the theory of incommensurability is Thomas Kuhn. To state his theory in the simplest form, incommensurability is simply the idea that theories within science are not compatible, and that the languages they use are, at least in part, mutually untranslatable. This...
Second Language Acquisition
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is learning development in which people acquire a new or more commonly known as “second language” in addition to their native tongue. The second language is often referred as “target language” or “L2”....
An examination of second language acquisition
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Language acquisition is a complicated concept that many scientists have been trying to understand for years. It is known that humans are the only animals to develop a vocalized form of language. However chimpanzees have proved to be capable of not only learning a language...
Does the Argument from the Systematicity of Thought to the Language of Thought Hypothesis Work?
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
One of the main arguments to support the language of thought hypothesis (LOTH), as proposed by Fodor (1975), is that of the systematicity of thought. This argument consists of the idea that the ability to entertain certain thoughts is linked to the ability to entertain certain other...
A researched investigation on best practices for English Language Learners (ELL)
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
ELL students represent a large percentage of the population within schools in the United States. This group of students is actually increasing more than that of English speaking students. (Shore, 2001). This group also has a very high drop out rate, coupled with low ranking grades, academic...
Language evolution: Anthropology
Essay - 8 pages - Linguistics & languages
Its tops, it's the queens square, it's fabulous, it's cool, it's off the hook. All of these phrases mean the same thing, “It's great”. This is one of many phrases that have taken the twists and turns of the ages through our youth. Throughout history human language continues to...
A Common Tongue: A Bit About Dialects in a Language
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Dialect is a variety of language used by people from a particular geographic area. This language is a complete system of verbal communication with its own vocabulary and grammar (“Dialect”).In America today, the common language is English. But what does English...
Choosing Language that Avoids Sentimentality Elicits Emotional Resonance
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Avoiding sentimentality means writing to fight cliché and elicit emotion through originality of language. In Dig Safe, Stuart Dischell presents poetry that resonates emotionally without breeching melodrama. One poem in particular, “Children of the City,” demonstrates that a...
The Wall Street Journal: Does Language Exclude Others?
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
The assignment states that “language use in discourse communities functions (in part) to exclude others”. While this is true in many cases, sometimes language use in discourse communities actually functions to include others. After all, the goal of any publication, be it a...
The Americanization of Puerto Rico and Its Effect on Law, Religion, and the Spanish Language
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
According to material provided by the Hispanic division of the library of congress, by the end of the 1800's, Puerto Rico held strategic value for the United States, for both economic and military reasons. Puerto Rico would provide a new market for exported American goods, as well as a strategic...
"With their tongues cocked and loaded:"The power of language and dialect in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Thesis - 8 pages - Literature
Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist for her own culture. She spent much of her life recording the stories and saying of the people around her, both in Harlem and abroad in the American South. She poured her energy into representing people the way she saw them, or heard them, as the...
Afrikaner Nationalism and Visual Culture in the 20th Century
Essay - 5 pages - Architecture
The 'architecture of the people or nation,' known as Volksargitektuur, is a term used to describe the political ideologies, cultural narratives, and architectural expression of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa in the middle to late 20th century. This architectural idea represents...
Introduction to Computer Systems Science
Course material - 23 pages - Computer science
The course aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of computer science, as well as the skills necessary to solve practical programming problems. Students learn the key concepts of computer programming, including data structures, algorithms, modularity, and code...
Supporting Newly Arrived Migrant Students in the Education Domain
Thesis - 6 pages - Educational studies
Newly arrived migrant students encounter unique obstacles in their lives, and the school setting may either foster positive or negative student experiences depending on the structure of the learning environment. European countries have adopted several measures and programs to facilitate positive...
The Sun (March 24, 2022) and Daily Mirror (March 22, 2022) - Tabloid Newspaper Assignment
Text commentary - 2 pages - Journalism
The Sun and the Mirror are two popular UK tabloid newspapers that cover reports on topics such as politics, showbiz, royalty, and sports. In the past, there have been many controversies about these tabloid newspapers and many critics have claimed that their reports have been inappropriate. In...
Student attitude about learning Arabic and English at the same time
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
English has been one of the subjects that have been in use in many countries for many years. However, the use of Arabic has been in the Middle-Eastern and North-African countries where it does not have as many people as the English language (Starks & Paltridge, 1996). Typically,...
King Lear - Shakespeare (1606) - A tragedy from the Renaissance
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
The violent language used by King Lear in his speech, marking his anger, leads us to another characteristic: the role of art as an instrument of knowledge. Indeed, King Lear's speech evolves through the extract. In the beginning, Lear orders the storm ("Blow, winds, and crack your...
Reading Strategies
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Language instructors are usually aggravated by the fact that learners do not transfer the strategies they employ when reading in their native language to reading in the language ,they are learning. In its place, they seem to view reading as starting in the beginning and...
Great Expectations, chapter 39 - Charles Dickens (1860) - Reading comprehension
Book review - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
In this extract, we find out that the convict is Pip's patron! Pip is shocked and sad, because it means all his dreams for Estella are dashed to pieces. The language used by Dickens contributes to Pip's downfall; Magwitch slowly but surely unveils the whole story to Pip, using...
Native English speakers of the world
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Native speakers of English are approximately 430 million people in the world. However, the number of native and non-native speakers is approximated to be 2 billion people. English is the third largest language in terms of the number of speakers after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. In...
Tourism and Cultural Differences
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
This document raises the issue of cultural and language barriers in the context of tourism by means of two commented illustrations.
Using AI Copilots to Enhance Aviation Safety for Autonomous Aircraft Operations
Case study - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This research proposes an AI copilot system to improve aviation safety for autonomous flight operations. The system combines knowledge representation, reasoning, natural language processing, and computer vision, helping with risk assessments, countermeasure recommendations, and human-AI...
The concepts of accelerated learning and mind-body enhancements
Case study - 34 pages - Psychology
How did Bulgarian Ivan Barzakov bring the roots of Superlearning to America? Answer: Ivan Barzakov wanted to escape the yoke of the Communist oppression in Bulgaria and go to America. This entailed swimming for seven miles in the open, cold, shark-infested waters of the Adriatic sea and onto the...
MATLAB Keywords
Worksheets - 19 pages - Computer science
This document contains lines of code, instructions for programming in MATLAB, a popular programming language used for numerical computing and data analysis.
Immigration and Ethnic History
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The United States is said to be a nation of immigrants. This is because most people in trace their origins from other parts of the world. There are people who moved into the United States as slaves, specifically the African-Americans, while others migrated to the country in order to engage in...
Implementing a database
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Computer science
You are required to write a summative report for the company's senior management and shareholders, who you are to assume are not digital-literate in relation to databases, therefore the language should be clear and any technical terms used should be explained. The report should introduce...
Why Is Liberal Art Important and Necessary?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to be here this morning to answer your questions about liberal arts and why they are important and necessary in our work setting. The liberal arts are courses in general areas of study such as philosophy, mathematics, art, history, economics, and languages....
West African Anglophone Literary Productions
Course material - 21 pages - Literature
By and large, the objective of this course is to get students in the humanities to cast a meaningful glance at the landscape of the aesthetico-social and political realities which have affected the continent, ever since slavery days through colonization up to the contemporary stage, in the prism...
Implementation of a Flight Management System within an Airline
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Computer science
This analysis aims to design and build a prototype of an airline-oriented web application for managing aircraft flights. At the same time, it aims to be a powerful, easy-to-use, fast and effective management tool for airline agents, on the one hand, and a simple and safe information tool for...
Introduction to Software Development: Explore the World of Programming
Course material - 8 pages - Computer science
This course takes you on an exciting journey through the world of software development and programming. Whether you are a complete beginner or already have some experience, this course provides you with the essential foundations to understand key programming concepts and prepares you to build...
