How to make linguistics enjoyable?

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, University of Debrecen (Regnum-M educational Co.), course: university essay workshop, language: English, abstract: How to make linguistics enjoyable? What is linguistics for me and linguistics approaches in everyday speech? I studied linguistics before, or at least my college professor did all the efforts to teach me. I have never been against it; however, it is rather hard to grab the essence of this wonderful discipline sometimes. For all this, I would give it a try. In the first Unit we come across an interesting dialog between two teenagers, actually presenting a joke of which punchline is perfectly collaborated and understood by all of them. The principle task is to collect similar dialogs and analyze them from a linguistic point of view. I do not want to repeat the linguistic analysis of the two kids exploring the joke of the chicken that crossed the road, therefore I have tried to seek similar examples. In order to work out a life-like situation, I have opted for two names; let us have Jessica and James talking to each other in the first dialog.

My name is János Talabér. I was born in Budapest. I went to high school in Dabas, I graduated from the universities in Budapest, Miskolc, Debrecen and California. I have taught in high schools and universities for more than twenty years. I have been continuously active in emergency patient care: NHS ambulances and other private ambulance services. I consider education and emergency patient care to be my own mission and profession. In my passtime, I like to spend as much time as possible with my family, and I like to read, listen to music, and play the piano. For more information and getting my Resume, please drop me a line to talaber.janos@gmail.com