Hello, I liked how you mentioned that there is a sense of abstraction and subjectiveness to a given mental image. It’s very interesting how something (like a cat) can be presented and will be mentally thought up […]
From our discussion in class, along with the readings, I was surprised by the surreal fact that I do have mental images for certain words. It was interesting thinking about my mental image of a television or a […]
When I was a child I had many problems pronouncing and spelling words. In elementary school, I attended speech therapy to help me sound out words better. I found it very difficult to pronounce/spell “the,” “this,” […]
Prescriptivism; Blog Post #1When I was in elementary school, it seemed that I did a lot wrong. The way I spoke, wrote my letters, and wrote sentences were […]
Descriptivist language is favored by linguists rather than prescriptivist language because descriptivism focuses on how the language is used rather than any grammar rules applied to it. The strength of this […]
Our ancestors advanced from primal communication to what would now be considered language. This turning point in history must have led to new groundbreaking ways of life. Once the primal humans were able to […]
I want to learn about the history of language, how certain words were thought of, and how the language we speak today came about. I also wish to become a better writer and reader.
