ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#53 | December 31, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture,” says Frantz Fanon. To undestand a culture fully, one must first be dedicated to learning its native language. Linguists well as our body of literature play a crucial role in unlocking the secrets behind the world’s multitude of languages, and helping people understand how the human mind works across time and space, from different eras and individual cultures.
Where spoken word, in its millions of years of evolution, fails to provide insights on historic and modern literature, linguists, with their uncanny curiosity, help convey messages from languages long dead and forgotten. Thus a discourse in the field of language, linguistics and literature is significant to gather and understand different perspective in our culture and the society between the past and the present.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Language and Literature:
- Language acquisition and learning
- Language Education
- Intercultural Education
- Language Program Evaluation
- Innovation in language teaching and learnings
- Language Teacher Education (collaborations and practices)
- Language Teaching Methodology
- Language Curriculum Development
- Language Testing and Assessment
- Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education
- The role of language and communication in human cognition
- Translation
- Poetry and Prose (fictional and non-fictional)
- Contemporary Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Media (television, drama, film and others)
- Classic
- Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Literature and Other Arts
- Literature and History
Linguistics:
- Applied Linguistics
- Theoretical Linguistics
- Computational Linguistics
- Comparative Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Contrastive Linguistics
- Interlinguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Dialectology
- Etymology
- Forensic Linguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Lexicology
- Linguistic statistics
- Linguistic typology
- Morphology
- Neurolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Text Linguistics
- Orthography, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Stylistics and Semantics.