Cultural Shocks As Seen in Nahid Rachlin’s “FORGET ME” Psychological Study

BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR

Nahid Rachlin, born in Iran, came to the United States to attend college and stayed. Among her publications are a memoir, Persian Girls (Penguin), four novels, Jumping Over Fire (City Lights), Foreigner (W.W. Norton), Married To A Stranger (E.P.Dutton), The Heart's Desire (City Lights), and a collection of short stories, Veils (City Lights). Her work has been published in Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Farsi, Arabic. All her published books are currently in print in paperback editions and are available at chain stores as well as independent ones. They are also widely used in college courses.

Introduction to Sociolinguistics Sumarized by Tri Rina Budiwati

How Language and Society Have Co-relation?
Society: any group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes. Meanwhile, Language: what the members of a particular society speak. the following is some brief language phenomena in society.

Brief Introduction Semantics as Linguistics Branches

The Term  of Semantics
Semantics is the study of MEANING in LANGUAGE. In the PAST, semantic debate has been largely concerned with discovering what ‘meaning’ is, as a concept in its own right. meanwhile, In modern linguistics, meaning is studied by making detailed analyses of the way words and sentences are used in specific contexts.