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Ahmed HassaninJanuary 26, 2015Final Exam #1- Revision of Sociology ReportI revised the introduction by fixing the tone and taking away the unnecessary information and adding in the necessary ones. I fixed the methodology and the results with the proper tone and also fixed the error I had in the discussion section. I took away my hypothesis from the results as well. I also included a title page at the end of the revisions. I took out this sentence from the results:The researchers predicted that a first persons language does affect the ability for a person to create their own language.Revision of Methods:As they have done their research and thought about it, to create a language you need some kind of foundation, maybe Latin, Spanish, Arabic. The point is they want(ed) to choose about 4-6 students with different spoken first languages. Luckily for them they had diversity in the classroom and they believed it could make made this experiment work. For the experiment they believed that they could use Mayra who is a Spanish speaker, Catherine who is Chinese (not sure it is his first language), Ji-young who is Korean, and for this next student its pretty interesting, Michael who is Filipino knows about his language and culture but does not speak it. It would be pretty interesting to see if he would mix English with his knowledge of Filipino to create his own language. In case the participants mind was blocked, the researchers had printed some Latin symbols and numbers that the participants could use. The researchers had six sentences, two were simple, two were compound and two were complex. They told the participants to recreate those sentences in their own made up words. After that they analyzed why they chose those certain words, and see if it had anything to do with their language or creative mind.Revision of Results: Mayra: Mayra, who comes from a Spanish background, wrote to write her sentences in a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese, along with images to describe certain actions. “Sally” was one of the names used in the sentences and the interesting thing is that Mayra she chose a specific symbol to represent the name. When I asked why that specific symbol, she did not know. but I believe it was just her creative mind saying that symbol looks cool. She also uses used drawings (insert picture or reference picure) like wind to represent “Swift”, Taylor Swift’s last name. She also uses used a drawing of a road to depict and illustrate the word, “Street”. Very interesting and creative way of using languages she knows with drawings. Catherine: Our next participant is Catherine of Comes from a Chinese background. Also chose to She base(d) her language (on) Latin symbols, Chinese characters and drawings (show the drawings). She also used numbers like “2” instead of “too” and “4” instead of “four.” When I asked her of her word and symbol choices she said that she “had nothing in mind” when it came to making her own language. It really was all improvisation and “whatever came to mind.” She also mentioned that the only two Chinese symbols that she remembered. The last thing that was pretty interested Interesting is that she named the language Jamie Carpio, after her best friend Jamie who is also in our class, which had nothing to do with the words or drawings.Michael: Michael was our next participant of the next participant is of Philippines decent, he decided to create(d) his language based on drawings. The only time he used words was for the names in the sentences He only used words in case of a persons name. He told me said that in the back of his mind he was going to start his language with some of the Spanish background he has, but he completely changed his approach. Hieroglyphics was one of the thoughts that came to his mind while creating as he created this language, which is pretty creativity. He also based his language on the Emojis that is used in our daily text messages and wanted to express himself through drawing rather than text. “ Words are invisible, but drawings are easily understood.” That was the whole mentality and creative side behind the decisions that Michael made on his language. Definitely not what was hypothesized but something we can work with.Ji-Young: Ji-Young’s first language is Korean and you can tell given by her accent. Anyway She based her language on Korean and English alphabet. The name of her language was Korglish. 5 vowels a, e, I, o, u are in her language. Her language was mainly based on pronunciation so if you ever want to spell something all you have to do is sound it out.Revision of Discussion:After conducting the experiment, the researchers believe that a person’s first spoken language does indeed influence their ability to create their own language as well as the person’s previous knowledge.To improve this research we need conduct this experiment on random people in the streets and see how well they improvise and incorporate the language in their own made up language. – possible revision of the study!Revision to Introduction: Conlang stands for constructed languages, which means the making of your own language. You have to build your own words, pronunciation of vowels, sentence structure and grammar. Sounds pretty complicated to me, so why would anyone want to do so. One might create their own language as a way to express themselves and connect to the world, or maybe to get recognition from the general public. Whatever the reason behind the creation of the language it is not an easy task, but rather it is a task that one enjoys. This theory of conlang is fairly new and not so much people know of. “Conlanging is to linguistics what painting is to art history, or hacking to computer science.” ( Emrys, P.g.1 2015) The author here makes the connection that creating your own language is a big part of linguistics. Linguistics is the study of language and its structure; therefore, saying that creating your own language is a huge part of language studying. When creating new languages we are connecting with the community and interacting among each other. This helps spread culture in the community and better our understanding of one another.While we are on that topic of creating languages A very popular made up language, was created by a Jewish eye doctor in 1887. His language was a mixture of Latin, Polish and German roots. Today this language has over 1,000 native speakers and about 10,000 people speak it. The reason I am mentioning this is because he based his language of his spoken languages and of course the bases of languages Latin. The eye doctor based his language of the knowledge of the languages he spoke and knew. In this experiment we are going the researchers have selectively chose(n) four participants with different spoken first languages and give them 6 sentences and asked them to recreate them the sentences in their own made up language. In this experiment the researchers wanted to see if the first language of a person influences their ability to create their own language.Constructed Languages: Sociology Report Final Ahmed HassaninProfessor McCormackEnglish 201 January 26, 2015 ................
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