{"title":"Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language: an Introduction","authors":"Muhammad Ashaduzaman","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6904","url":null,"abstract":"The reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century is based on his studies of analytical philosophy, especially the philosophical study of logic, language, mathematics and metaphysics. His contribution to the philosophy of language is considerable. He stated his concepts and ideas in his two revolutionary books: 'Tractatus Logico Philosophicus' and 'Philosophical investigations' where he discussed the picture theory, notion of name, logical atomism, etc. among others. This article briefly describes the life of Wittgenstein, his work and his influence on our thinking. Key words: Picture theory of language; language game; Private; Public; Proposition; Metaphysics; Names DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6904 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.147-159","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"90 2 Pt 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129178993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Did the Buddha Speak Pāli? An Investigation of The Buddha-Vacana and Origins of Pāli","authors":"Chipamong Chowdhury","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6899","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally South and Southeast Buddhism, which we now call Theravada Buddhism, claims that the language of the Buddha is \"Pali\" and hence the language of their sacred texts (Tipitaka=three canons). In this essay, I investigate the notion of the Pali language by reconstructing existing Pali literatures and contemporary works on Pali studies. Among other issues, this investigation explores the following issues: the language (vacana) of the Buddha, the multilingualism and geopolitics, the home of Pali, and the origination of Pali. Key words: Buddhism; Pali language; Pali literatures DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6899 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.43-57","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116938620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Causative Constructions in Kok-Borok","authors":"Kamrul Hasan","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6902","url":null,"abstract":"Kok-Borok is the native language of the Borok people in the Indian state of Tripura and its neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. The aim of the present study is to capture the typological analysis of causative constructions of Kok-Borok, a language which belongs to the Bodo sub-group of the Tibeto-Burman language family. Our study shows that the most remarkable aspect of the causative constructions in Kok-borok is that in double causatives, the causative rI 'give' has been reduplicated in order to express 'to make somebody to do by employing a third party', which shows the language Kok-Borok's unique features if we compare this language with the other South-Asian Tibeto-Burman languages. The findings of mixed causatives show that both periphrastic and morphological devices have been employed in Kok-Borok to convey the meaning of causative constructions. Key Words: Causatives; Lexical; Morphological or Periphrastic Causatives; Kok-Borok. DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6902 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.115-137","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"48 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114005027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying the English language needs of humanities students at Dhaka University","authors":"Tazin Aziz Chaudhury","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6900","url":null,"abstract":"Till recently freshmen at all the departments of the Faculty of Humanities of Dhaka University compulsorily attended a centrally conducted English language skills development course titled the English Foundation Course. Since 2006 the Foundation Course was discontinued and replaced by individual courses conducted by the respective departments. However neither the English Foundation Course nor the present individual courses were designed on the basis of Needs Analysis - the primary pre-requisite of any curriculum design nor have they ever been evaluated. This article presents the findings of a formal needs analysis and evaluation conducted by the researcher. Key Words: Needs Analysis; Evaluation; Language skills and sub-skills; Course usefulness and difficulty; Classroom teaching style DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6900 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.59-91","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115007699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outlines of Bengali Phonology in the light of Generative Phonotactic","authors":"S. Bhattacharja","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6901","url":null,"abstract":"According to the theory of G(enerative) P(honotactic) (elaborated in Singh 1984, 1990), a phonemic inventory and a list of the W(ell)-F(ormedness) C(onditions) in addition to three hierarchically arranged strategies (Assimilation/ Substitution > Epenthesis > Deletion) to repair the sequences that violate these WFCs represent the essentials of a phonological description. For instance, the phonology of Panjabi, Chittagonian and Walpiri has, each, a WFC which bans the cluster /sk/ in onset. If these languages must adapt the English loan word school, then, Panjabi and Chittagonian repair it with epenthesis. In Walpiri, the word becomes /kul/ through deletion because no syllable begins with a vowel in this language, and its phonemic inventory lacks fricatives (/f/, /s/, /z/, etc.). The present is an exhaustive account of the phonology of Bengali in the light of GP. Keywords: Well-formedness conditions; Epenthesis; Deletion; Substitution; Mechanism of repair DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6901 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.93-114","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131264996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acquisition of Wh-movement in L2 Learning: A Cross-linguistic Analysis","authors":"Syed Shahrier Rahman","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6907","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-linguistically different human languages bear different patterns of whconstructions. This evokes a common quarry: what happens when L2 learners of whconstruction are exposed to a language that allows distinct type of wh-patterns (whmovement or wh-in-situ either) from their L1? Will they show the equal competency like other L2 learners of wh-questions who experience the same type in their L1? In this paper, we take English L2 learners in our concern and argue that despite of having a common platform of UG, L2 learners of English with wh-in-situ L1 background generally face more difficulties than other L2 learners who experience wh-movement in their L1. We shall try to figure out a proposal for a gradient way to acquire wh-movement by saying that English L2 learners who have strong wh-movement features in their L1 perform better than L2 learners with wh-in-situ background who bear some kind of movement properties in their L1. In the same way, this weaker group shows better performance than the English L2 learners who do not experience any sort of whmovement in their L1. We shall use empirical evidence from different secondary sources to test this hypothesis and finally we shall try to sketch out our results. Key Words: Wh-movement; L2 Learning; Cross-linguistic; English DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6907 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.185-199","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127853026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring the 'Monitor': A Critique of Krashen's Five Hypotheses","authors":"Manmay Zafar","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6903","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses Krashen's Monitor Model and the attendant five hypotheses. Since its 1977 publication, Krashen, through a series of revisions, have tried to explain the way learners acquire a second language. This article closely looks at his basic premises and the criticism they have generated to better understand both the Monitor Model and its various lacunae and biases. Key words: Affective Filter; Krashen; Language Acquisition Device (LAD); Monitor Model; Second Language Acquisition (SLA). DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6903 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.139-146","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"395 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116650951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phonological analysis of Tea workers' language of Sylhet","authors":"Asraful Karim","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6906","url":null,"abstract":"The means of communication among the workers of the tea estates in greater Sylhet, locally called 'Deshoali' Bhasha, has a lexicon that contains, among others, words of Hindi and Bengali origin. The present article includes some unfinished reflections on some aspects of the lexicon of this dialect and phonological analysis of 'Deshoali' Bhasha. Key words: Deshoali bhasha; aspect; analyzed; phonology; paradigms. DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6906 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.173-184","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128910031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Process: A New Lexical Evolution","authors":"Massrura Mostafa","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6905","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to describe the word formation process known as 'conversion' and a specific lexeme impact which is converted from noun to verb basically by American native speakers or news reports. But many people think that this process is to nouns and exploit them as verbs and many of such usages as impact are really disdainful. My purpose is to provide actual examples of impact taken from American newspapers and give reasons behind the functional shift of impact. As newspapers use the most standard language of time, this paper tries to show how the verb impact has established its transitive use in American Standard English, having gained more semantically emphatic force than its synonymous verb effect. Key words: word formation; American Standard English; news paper DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6905 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.161-172","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130467215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A contrastive analysis of English and Bangla phonemics","authors":"B. Barman","doi":"10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/DUJL.V2I4.6898","url":null,"abstract":"Contrastive phonemics is the field of study in which different phonemic systems are laid side by side to find out similarities and dissimilarities between the phonemes of the languages concerned. Every language has its own phonemic system, which holds unique as well as common features. A language shares some phonemes with other languages, but no two languages have the same phonemic inventory. This article makes a contrastive analysis of the phonemic systems of English and Bangla. The aspects of similarities as well as dissimilarities between the two have been explored in detail. It brings into focus the inventory of phonemes of the two languages along with relevant phonetic and phonological characteristics. The vowel and consonant phonemes of the two languages have been compared with sufficient examples, making it clear where and how they are identical and different. Key words: contrastive; Bangla; English; phonemics DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6898 Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.19-42","PeriodicalId":137374,"journal":{"name":"Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132194971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}