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• Answered a Question in Linguistics

  The concept of Langue (language) and Parole (speech) was given by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de...

• Answered a Question in Linguistics

  Language is a dynamic ‘cognitive’ object and sociological phenomenon. Language change is natural and uncontrollable. Languages mainly...

• Answered a Question in Linguistics

  In English language, to + verb is used in an infinitival construction (a clause in which the verb is infinite). An...

• Answered a Question in Linguistics

  A variety of language that is used for a particular social, religious or professional setting is known as a “register.” The vocabulary...

• Answered a Question in Linguistics

  There are over 6500 spoken languages in the world. And even this figure could well be an underestimation of reality, as there are some...

• Answered a Question in The Solitary Reaper

  In Wordsworth’s Solitary Reaper, the speaker of the poem finds a maiden working all “by herself” in the field and singing a...

• Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant

  George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant talks about how imperialism and colonialism negatively affected both the oppressed and...

• Answered a Question in Thermodynamics

  In thermodynamics, we define thermal energy as the internal (kinetic) energy of a system or the energy stored in the form of the...

• Answered a Question in Language

  One simple way to understand the French expression "danse académie pour de ballet" is to break it down and translate all the lexical...

• Answered a Question in Biochemistry

  Biochemical reactions are chemical reactions that take place inside the cells of living beings. As we know, the cells inside a living...