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Innatist theories

What do you mean by Innatist theories? Discuss Innatism with research evidence.

Answer: Language acquisition is one of the central topics in cognitive science.  Every theory of cognition has tried to explain it. Probably no other topic has aroused such controversy. Possessing a language is the quintessentially human trait: all normal humans speak, no nonhuman animal does. Noam Chomsky argues that children are born with a unique […]

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Nativist Approach to language learning

Briefly discuss the Nativist Approach to language learning.

Answer: Nativism is a current concept rooted in innatism. It is grounded in the fields of genetics, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. The advocates of nativism are mainly philosophers working in the field of cognitive psychology or psycholinguistics: most notably Noam Chomsky and Jerry Fodor. The nativist’s general objection against empiricism is that: the human mind

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Important theories of learning

What are the important theories of learning? Compare the theories with one another.

Answer: A great many theories regarding language development in human beings have been proposed in the past and still being proposed in the present time. Such theories have generally arisen out of major disciplines such as psychology and linguistics. Psychological and linguistic thinking have profoundly influenced one another and the outcome of language acquisition theories

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Modern schools and Movements

Brief view of Modern schools and Movements in linguistics perspective.

Answer: The study of linguistic changes over time in language or in a particular language or language family, sometimes including the reconstruction of unattested forms of earlier stages of a language. This is the study of linguistic change in “the synchrony and diachronic”. HISTORICISM Historicism, in the sense in which the term is being used

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Analyse the theme of hereditary guilt in the play Agamemnon

Analyse the theme of hereditary guilt in the play Agamemnon.

Answer: The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides were the last tragedies composed by Aeschylus, and were produced in 458 [B.C.], two years before his death, along with the satiric drama Proteus. The tetra-logy as a whole was called the Oresteia, a name which, whether due to Aeschylus or not, appears to have been in use at

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How far does Clytemnestra draw the readers’ sympathy in Agamemnon?

Answer: Agamemnon is treated as the masterpiece of Aeschylus.Agamemnon, the first play of the ‘Oresteian Trilogy’ is considered the best of all Greek dramas. Aeschylus was the first successful tragedian and his ‘Oresteia’ was the only surviving trilogy of the ancient world of which the first play ‘Agamemnon’ is considered the greatest of all Greek

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Agamemnon

How does Aeschylus build intense dramatic suspense around Agamemnon’s home coming in the play Agamemnon?

Answer: Agamemnon is treated as the masterpiece of Aeschylus. In it the action takes place before the palace of Agamemnon in Argos at the time of his victorious return from the Trojan War. Besides, the grand theme of the play based on sin, murder, punishment and a fatalistic conception of human life’, the intense dramatic

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Analyse the theme of hereditary guilt in the play Agamemnon

Character of Clytemnestra in the play Agamemnon.

Answer: Agamemnon is the first play in a trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus entitled the Oresteia. Even though Agamemnon gets a shout-out in the play’s title, Clytemnestra may well be its most interesting character. By interesting, we don’t mean likable – after all, technically speaking, she is a liar, a two-timer, and a murderer. But

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Agamemnon

Important Question and Answer of Agamemnon by Aeschylus.

Q. Discuss the character of Clytemnestra in the play Agamemnon. Answer: Agamemnon is the first play in a trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus entitled the Oresteia. Even though Agamemnon gets a shout-out in the play’s title, Clytemnestra may well be its most interesting character. By interesting, we don’t mean likable – after all, technically speaking, she

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