Apllied Linguistics

APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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Silvia Castellano

1018186

VO Applied Linguistics

WS 2011/2012

Prof. Herdina


1. Am I communication?
If you want to learn a language, you need to speak, to give-up the ghost. For example, the majority of large number can non speak Latin even if they learn it at aim and the reason is that they never had the chance to practice it. Of course it is to a greater extent difficult to practice Latin, since it is a dead language and this pleasant of languages is different from the ones that are spoken in the present, because almost nonentity uses it anymore.
People in the world cannot communicate with eitherone, because they cannot speak every language of the world. Sometimes we think we are communicating, but we are not and the reason is that we are too much use to insufficient communication, the one which does not take you anywhere.
This is connected to the goldfish syndrome: we live in a private world and, when we go out, we discover that we lack something, so we cannot communicate with the opposites.
When we cannot communicate to the other people we find a distress of communication, which is actually a very normal procedure: the communicative success is unluckily rare to find.




A few examples of communicative failures war, fights and beats, but the largest failure is the Yucatan one: when the conquistadores came to this peninsula they tried to communicate with the indigenous: when Spaniards asked for the name of the region, the Mayans replied Maanaatik ka tann, which means I do not transform, but the conquistadores thought it was actually the name they wanted to know. Since they could not pronounce the whole name properly, they ended up life history it Yucatan.
If you do not know the words, you cannot speak that language, though sometimes it also happen that we know the words but we cannot communicate anyway. The reason is that we do not know how people or things really are, because we might have...If you want to get a large essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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