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It has been estimated that approximately six thousand languages are in active use across the globe; it is further estimated that ninety percent of these languages will die out within the next hundred years (Hale et al. 1992). These estimates may have an alarming effect on linguists, as well as on those who would like to ensure that their cultural legacies are preserved in years to come. (more…)

Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse (1990) is structured in three parts and each, to an extent, displays a different use of time. In this essay I would like to look at each of these and discuss the ways that the author represents not only the movement and affects of temporality but also how its is perceived and shapes people’s consciousnesses. (more…)

Today the issue of the difference between men’s and women’s use of language raises hot debates among sociolinguists, psychologists and other scholars. In their analysis of language and gender they create various theories that complicate the issue because of the fact that they observe gender differences from various perspectives. (more…)