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Publicēts: 30.11.2006.
Valoda: Angļu
Līmenis: Augstskolas
Literatūras saraksts: Nav
Atsauces: Ir
  • Eseja 'Language as an Instrument', 1.
  • Eseja 'Language as an Instrument', 2.
  • Eseja 'Language as an Instrument', 3.
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People all look different, are shaped differently, act differently and talk differently. The author of the essay will try to find an answer whether there is any reason to believe that we all hear the same.
I must state that our everyday language is rather ugly and inaccurate. It is quite different when we need to write an essay or produce any other literary work. When we think of a concrete object, we think wordlessly and then, if we want to describe the thing we have been visualising, we are on the hunt for the proper and exact words till they seem to fit. In order to have the necessary effect, I always ask myself some of the questions like those: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? The same questions arise when I must compose a business letter at work.
Of course, grammar also plays an important role in the comprehensibility and meaning of words, because grammar is the set of rules which describe how words of a language may be combined.…

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