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    If you are in search of a Prague school or Prague linguistics school then you are in the right place. In this blog, I discuss what is Prague school, who was working at Prague school, and the purpose of Prague school.     Prague school  The Prague school or Prague linguistic  circle is a language and literary society.  It is started in 1926 by Vilem Mathesius. Who was working in a Prague school? Three domains were working there: 1) Linguists          2) Philologists     3) Literary critics  Purpose of the Prague school: Their main focus was to standardize one  language and tell about how one dialect  could be different from others.             The End

 Mental Space Theory  This theory is founded by Talmy in 2000.    Mental space theory is a theory in the field  of linguistics and cognitive psychology.  It suggests that mental space is organized by mental operations and mental operations are organized by mental models. Mental operations are the mental processes that people perform when they think, reason, and communicate.                                                                   A mental model is the representation of the  the way something works. Mental models are used to understand,  predict, and explain the behavior of people  and things.                                     Models are also used to make decisions,...

  Summary:                     Animal Farm  At Manor Farm in England, Farmer Jones swills whiskey and abuses his animals—including pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, goats, horses, and dogs. One evening, Old Major, a wise pig who is dying, sows the seeds of revolution. He tells his barnyard comrades that they can enjoy peace and prosperity, every animal sharing equally in the benefits of the farm, if they overthrow Jones and run the farm themselves. The old pig even teaches them a rallying song: ―Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,/ Beasts of every land and clime,/ Hearken to my joyful tidings / Of the golden future time. / Soon or late the day is coming,/ Tyrant Man shall be o’erthrown, / And the fruitful fields of England / Shall be trod by beasts alone. ‖    Days later, after Old Major dies, the animals plot the rebellion, led by the most intelligent among them, the pigs—in particular, Snowball, Napoleon, and ...

 Summary:                    Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss, novel by George Eliot, published in  three volumes  in 1860.  Book 1:  Boy and Girl: The tragedy of the Tulliver family is told by an omniscient male narrator who appears to have a female sensibility and is extremely sympathetic toward the main character, Maggie. The Tulliver family consists of nine-year-old Maggie and her older brother Tom, almost 13, together with their father, who owns Dorlcote Mill on the tributary of the Floss River, and his wife, Bessy Tulliver, formerly a Dodson. Mrs. Tulliver lacks warmth and empathy as a mother and favors her son, and she regularly criticizes Maggie, whose looks she finds objectionable—she is dark and doesn't take after the blonde Dodsons—and whose passionate emotions and depth of intelligence she cannot relate to nor understand. The Dodson sisters, particularly Jane Glegg and Sophy Pullet, als...

 If you are in search of Language Acquisition Theories , especially Interactionist Theory then you are in the right place. Here you can find Jerome Bruner's Theory of language acquisition or Child development theory  Topic:           Interactionist Theory                            OR          Jerome Bruner Theory  Jerome Bruner (1961) believed that children are born with the ability to develop language but they require regular interaction with their caregivers or teachers to learn and understand it to a level of full fluency. This idea is known as the Language Acquisition Support System (LASS). Caregivers tend to correct mistakes that children make when using language and also regularly teach them what objects are and what their purposes are.   Burner suggests that this helps to build the scaffolding that children will later rely on when fur...

  After reading this blog you will be able to properly understand the Nativist theory or Noam Chomsky's theory of Language Acquisition / Child development theory  Nativist Theory: Noam Chomsky (1957) proposes that children are born with an instinct or drive for language learning which he calls the language acquisition device (LAD).  He argued that even if a child is not educated in their country's language, so long as they grow in a normal environment, they will still devise a system of verbal communication.  Therefore, there must be an innate, biological component to language acquisition. What is the language acquisition device? Chomsky suggests that the language acquisition device (LAD) must be located somewhere in the brain, serving as an encoder that provides us with a baseline understanding of grammatical structure.  As children learn new words, they are able to incorporate them into their use of language independently. Chomsky argues that this indepen...

  In this video I will explain New Criticism,   background of new criticism and   explanation of new criticism. Background & Information of New Criticism: The Term was coined by W.k.Wimsat and        Monroe Beardsley as a principle of new          criticism. It emphasized close reading, particularly       of poetry, to discover how a work of                 literature functioned as a self-contained,         self-referential aesthetic object. The movement derived its name from              John Crowned Ransom's 1941 book. The focus of this movement is analyzing          the form and content of text. Some critics inspire from the movement         of formalism, they further expand this             movement into...

    In this blog, you will find Behavioural theory of language Acquisition or BF Skinner's theory | Child development theory. Behavioral  Theory: The Behavioural theory of language acquisition, sometimes called the Imitation  Theory, is part of behaviorist theory.sm proposes that we are a product of  our environment. Therefore, children have no internal mechanism or ability to develop  language by themselves.  BF Skinner (1957) suggests that children learn the language  first by imitating their caregivers (usually parents) and then modifying their use of  language due to operant conditioning. What is operant conditioning Behaviorism? Operant conditioning is a way of learning that focuses on the reward (positive  reinforcement) or punishment (negative reinforcement) of desired or undesired behavior. How does operant conditioning apply to language acquisition? Skinner suggested that children first learn words and phrases from their ca...

  Topic                John Ruskin Introduction: John Ruskin was born in 8 Feb 1819 in London . He was an English writer, art critic, philosopher and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His father John James Ruskin was a Scots Wine Merchant . His mother was a religious woman and interested in Bible.   Slade professor: In 1869, Ruskin became the first slade professor of fine art at the university of Oxford where he established the Ruskin school of Drawing . Believe: Ruskin was a man of intense contradictions like a fish he said that, it is healthiest to swim against the stream. He believed in hierarchy but also that the rich had a responsibility to protect the poor. He believed that all great should communicate an understanding and appreciation of nature. Four qualities of child: According to Rusk...