Just Stories

  Language Contact   Thomason (2001 : 1 ) argues that language contact is an even when the speakers use more than one language in the same time. The uses of this language does not requires the speakers to speak fluently   as bilingual or multilingual, but the communication between speakers of two different language were already categorized as events of language contact.   The result of such contact differ according to several factors, including the length and intensity of contact between the groups, the types of social, economic and political relationship between them, the function which communication between them must serve and the degree of similarity between the languages they speak. Example, when two groups of tourists each leading their cookware for two or three hours, they would have attempted to communicate with each other. This communication event though perhaps in a very simple form included in the category of language contact. The dynamic of languag...

  LANGUAGE AND CULTURE   In language there are categories used to describe a kinds of phenomena, those called culture and thought. Culture refer to properties of a community, specially those which   distinguish it from   others. From dimensions of culture there are three basic dimensions such as :  1. The cognitive dimension, people has shared culture knowledge   by members of group.   It includes the assumption and beliefs societies make a reality, the nature of the world and how it works.  2. The affective   dimensions with reflected the culture in most areas of life with what people have to in our feelings.  3. The evaluative dimension has to with values, it uses to judge in all types situations in there types are evaluates cognitive beliefs to determine their feelings, judges the emotional expression of human life and the values and determines in society right and wrong. Thought covers a number of different types of mental act...