tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post4760447608311536181..comments2024-03-21T10:32:44.893+03:00Comments on English Language Teaching and Linguistics: Origins of Language and The Future of LanguageTuncer Canhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01135630242770051177noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-28736836395397046132010-01-04T10:52:03.253+02:002010-01-04T10:52:03.253+02:00Having been a part of the Online Universal Work Ma...Having been a part of the Online Universal Work Marketing team for 4 months now, I’m thankful for my fellow team members who have patiently shown me the ropes along the way and made me feel welcome<br /><br /><br />www.onlineuniversalwork.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-19002401097237587582008-04-13T15:26:00.000+03:002008-04-13T15:26:00.000+03:00Chomsky Sucks!Chomsky Sucks!.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11087371144282420691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-20434240734611448582007-10-31T20:57:00.000+02:002007-10-31T20:57:00.000+02:00Magnific!Magnific!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-19119246247989989962007-10-31T20:28:00.000+02:002007-10-31T20:28:00.000+02:00pMU8CO Thanks to author.pMU8CO Thanks to author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-53896823869048241122007-10-30T15:18:00.000+02:002007-10-30T15:18:00.000+02:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-664479483459062232007-10-30T08:12:00.000+02:002007-10-30T08:12:00.000+02:00actually, that's brilliant. 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Articles is interesting...h9Locx Your blog is great. Articles is interesting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-56819634278522128452007-06-17T18:56:00.000+03:002007-06-17T18:56:00.000+03:00to me, language is an invention which human being ...to me, language is an invention which human being found years and years ago like axe, case. but it is more complex, so os complex. so i yhink these theories are not enough to explain the source of the language. today there is anew concept like jargon. this an artificial language which developped by people communicating in a secretive way. that means people human being can develop a lnguage if s/he wants. so in these 3 theories people are all somehow passive. yyo-heave-ho theory or others are nall say that people found the language by coincidence. i do not agree. i think in future some clever men will appear and say people found the language like this this this they first do that vafter than this and finally they found the language. human being is the subject. he does makes or finds. and maybe one of this clever men can be me. but i need some more info that i will gain during my education. <BR/>__3231050070__Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-31252109243834795482007-06-17T18:34:00.000+03:002007-06-17T18:34:00.000+03:00when looking these theories there is big gap betwe...when looking these theories there is big gap between them. according to social, religious, ideal perspective they all go somewhere opposite directions. for ex: a muslim can not accept the evolution theory due to his religion. if someone will make a new research about this subject should touch all the human being. available theoris somehow some ideological, unfortunately. so human being is divided. owing to some reasons can not accept the ideas about language. ifn ı do a researcment or an arguement i will be care about this subjects. there should not be any inconvenience about ideas of the people. this can be my previous answer to what is language. the necessities of human being. in maslow's hierarcy of needs pyramids, language is among in first level which also contains food water sex etc.,i think. so the language is born by human being. no matter how it appeared people should avoid to make a chance to attract tha people around their ideas.3231050038Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-25114256227054313902007-06-17T15:07:00.000+03:002007-06-17T15:07:00.000+03:00Unfortunatrly we have litttle, if any, solid evide...Unfortunatrly we have litttle, if any, solid evidence to indicate when language may have originated,why it mayt have developed in our particular species,and how it developed from its earlier stages. Linguistics claim that some theories: divine theory, the evolution theory and the social theory as we learned in the cours.<BR/>Language is alive just like humankind because it changes and devolopes and, some of the languages died, disappeared from the earth..A language has been effected by other cultures,great events, economic pover, tecno-logy, political events while its evolutionary process.For example, we have problem in understanding old Turkish.Same as this case, 100 years later our children will have problem in understanding our spoken language.<BR/>To dwell on tecnological effects on the language,tecnology have a great pesentage of effect on the language.First off all, progression of the tecnology make language gain new tecnic terms and nouns.(tv, ps,laptop,mp3,microphone,...)<BR/>Second, communication onthe net have also effets on the languafe. It makes language gain new acroniyms,especially instant messaging on computer.Now IM(İnstant messaging) has spread to other systems such as yahoo messanger,MSN messanger and Google Talk. For examle for such acroniyms which are in English:ROTFL(rolıng on the floor laughing,GWTL(get wih the lingo),BBL(be back later, JK(Just kidding), OMG( oh my God),YW( you are welcome)<BR/>Future of the anguage is not obvious.But it is obvious that all the languages will be changed seriously.Some of them may not understandible, some of them may be die.<BR/>3231050115Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-51754306511291800112007-06-11T00:37:00.000+03:002007-06-11T00:37:00.000+03:00Language is much important for people to live.Peop...Language is much important for people to live.People are socials so they must live together and tell their needs via of a language.From prehistorical times language have been together with people and this shows that language will be together with people as soon as peole exist.Language is a living thing so it changes always according to time and situation.There is no language which has been same for years so we can thınk that language is living like us.Language is an important part of a culture and if the language changes ,the culture changes too.Today there are lots of English words in our language and our language changed much so ı can say that our culture will be like Europen in the future because our language is changing.<BR/> Always language is together with people and will be together in the future so people must understand the mportance of language.<BR/>3231050092Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-79056105556533031832007-06-03T16:06:00.000+03:002007-06-03T16:06:00.000+03:00I think the role and importance of language will c...I think the role and importance of language will change dramatically over the years. It will pass through two satages. In its first, language will gain importance due to the advances of civilizations.In its second stage,the technological devices will take place the role of the languages. However; this seems to come true in a very long period of time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-54418208416981905772007-05-26T15:49:00.000+03:002007-05-26T15:49:00.000+03:00language's being a living presence is the sing of ...language's being a living presence is the sing of that language shows differences in each period of time. language shows deveopments or differences according to the advencement rate of societies or cultures people live.that is, as the language of 1000 years ego hasn't been spoken, the language of our day won't be spoken after 1000 years. for example:by technology, lots of new things are found and named. and when people begin to code these new findings and concept by using them in their daily life instead of the old concepts or names of things answered their needs, they will forget old names due to not using those things.<BR/>to sum up, as long as life changes, and for life, new fields are developed, moreover human will find new equipments for a more confortable life, and as depend on this, language will also changes and shows differences together with life in future because of its coding the life.3231050046Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-16182675922539800782007-05-17T19:09:00.000+03:002007-05-17T19:09:00.000+03:00There is an undeniable reality of life: TECHNO-LOG...There is an undeniable reality of life: TECHNO-LOGY, it effects every second of life. I believe that although it helps progress in many fields, it deteriorates the communication. Language is affected badly within the fast-life-style. Language goes shorter to get along together. As we watch TV, we see how awful language is used. We ignore the main usage of language as a mean of communication recently. <BR/>Technology captured all our lives in a way that the more we progress, the less we lose our communication skill.<BR/>Recently we communicate in an abbreviated language. It lacks its previous ruless and beauty. Since people live in fast style, language is also shaped within this fast frame in order not to be outdated by the life.<BR/>We do not have the records of ancient time language because it was oral based. Today also the oral language is far beyond the written one but thanks (?) that the written language is also getting alike it. The sentences are going simpler and similar to colloquial language. The SMS and mail messages are concrete examples of the case. We write ‘hi, how r u, cu l8r’ and so on...<BR/><BR/>As long as the case continues, I do not expect that we will bequeath a language OR the things we bequeath will not be alanguage. Perhaps, it will be some version of a dialect or something else.<BR/>What the tragicomic situation is; we will not have to learn the grammar or pronunciation rules, just learn as it is.<BR/>020- FEYZAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-45504877285627593482007-05-08T17:01:00.000+03:002007-05-08T17:01:00.000+03:00When we consider languages one by one, i agree wit...When we consider languages one by one, i agree with the predictions that languages will definitely undergo changes.While new concepts will be added, the ones that are too slow to keep up with technology (behind it, human imagination) and that we have consumed too fast will be neglected to the point that they will disappear.Obviously, developing to become "smaller", today's world need such differentiations in any field.<BR/>However, it seems to me that these changes will unfortunately result in the disabled thinking ability.Because the more people tend to think in the language of the power, the less languages will survive this popular culture. as claimed in the Direct Method, thinking in a different language enlargens the human thinking ability. What if most people think in similar languages?we may reach Chomsky's universal language in a different way or each language evolves into creoles.(See the number of the Eng, Fr, Arabic words in Turkish) no matter what we achieve, the variety of concepts and perceptions of the world will be limited to some languages despite a few attempts to pay attention to the languages spoken by fewer people every day.<BR/>05İng036 M. GüzelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-7945455311571684042007-05-03T09:35:00.000+03:002007-05-03T09:35:00.000+03:00As language hasn't stayed the same and changed as ...As language hasn't stayed the same and changed as time passed,it is difficult to guess the future of the language.I think the whole <BR/>world will<BR/>speak one common language in the far future.I do not know whether this <BR/>language<BR/>will be English or not but one thing I can guess today is that all <BR/>languages<BR/>will mix up as a result of Globalization and a common language will<BR/>appear.Actually,we should consider what futurists say about this.For instance,many linguists believe that after a few decades people won't understand today's English.And I trust that necessarily there will be changes in languages.03231050121Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-13888489224863546022007-05-01T21:47:00.000+03:002007-05-01T21:47:00.000+03:003231040059languagewas born whenthe human first cam...3231040059<BR/>languagewas born whenthe human first came to the world and then it developed with the help of human.we can say that language is such a thing that anybody can't imagine a life without it.also,human language gradually evolved from the need for humans to communicate with each other.in most of the theories,language began with mimicking.human beings began to mimic the sounds of nature and used these sounds as referents for the sources of the sound.in divine theory,it says language is the power to name all things and we name all things in nature in the light of language.there are a lot of languages in the world and lots of people communicate with each other thanks to the language.like today,ı think language will be the same in future.ıt's importance won't change.maybe technology develops day day by day but this doesn't change this fact.namely,there can't be a society where anyone doesn't communicate with each other so it shows that we need language to continue our life today,tomorrow and in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-3225486811890294322007-05-01T21:31:00.000+03:002007-05-01T21:31:00.000+03:00In the last lesson we saw that language was seen f...In the last lesson we saw that language was seen from different concepts such as "divine theory" "the evolution theory" and "the social theory" throughough the history. In my opinion "social theory" will be more important than others. Because, language is a tool of communication among people and it could be developed or disappeared depending on the way of using it. At recent years science and technology became more important than last years.And this fact caused the need of interaction of the whole world.Because of this need, some languages became global and generally used than other languages. For example "English" is now the first language which is used by people.People use it for some reasons. The most important reason is to interact with the world. And education,trade or making career for work may be another reasons. For using the same technologic and scientific elements, English is also used all over the world.For example in the internet we usually use English.Although using English and other languages which are generally used in the world is a useful mathod, it can bring some dangers with itself. People allow to enter foreign words into their native languages and use them instead of the words in their native languages. So native words will be forgotten day by day.I think it is a dangerous sign for us. Because, as I see in Turkey, people don't give enough importance to their native languages. They make their native languages like a mixture with foreign languages. For instance, in television some people say "bunun timingi iyi değildi" or "sen body language'ni iyi kullanamıyorsun". If people don't protect their native languages, some common languages will be dominant over other languages.<BR/> To summarize, we are now studying to establish the bridge between languages.Because linguistic diversity is richness. For exanple it is useful for economy. But we shouldn't forget our native language's rules, words, grammatical structures and their functions. Unfortunately, I see that weak languages will be weaker and forgotten in future because of people's approaches. We also shouldn't forget language is a life style and we should distinguish between using second language or third language in our daily lives and putting them instead of native language. <BR/><BR/>YELİZ TOP 3212040013Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23539547.post-19003274932972281462007-05-01T14:09:00.000+03:002007-05-01T14:09:00.000+03:00language has an evalutıon that contınues wıth huma...language has an evalutıon that contınues wıth humanıty.ıf the speakers of the languages are alıve the language wıll be alıve also, actually thıs process ıs contınue wıth the cıvılızatıons' cultures too. cos as we know so many cultures pine away under powefull cultures and they become distant to theır both culture as well theır language we can show uygur turks as an example,both theır language and theır culture ıs near to chına then to the other turks cultures.to contınue a language means to be combine.ıf we thınk we know everythıng we needn't any others ıdea, we wıll just ımıtate others and ıt ıs not very hard for our culture because untıl now we never attempt to use our own language acurately instead of usıng and developing ourselves.ı know we as clever turks developed so many words just ın persıan form as well as ın french and arabic but when we try to make a structure about turkısh ıt turns to accuse these people of being hard hat or old fashıoned.just wanna say thıs a language's future depends on ıt's speaker.for example who can say english ıs spoken ın old terms no anybody can nat say that ıs just a neccesıty of modernızatıon and a language should certaınly change ın thıs terms ıf ıt takes words forms permanently from other languages the language bounds to be extınct.and ıt ıs not hard to see englısh as the number one language ın the world.just as ı know thıs the most long term language whıch ıs spoken ın such a wıde area.why cos plitıcal power and the most ımportant one economıcal power perhaps turkısh wıll take the place ın the other century who knows.3231050043Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com