CLASSICAL CULTURE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE Liceo Scientifico “A. Einstein” Class 3A Students: Scarpin Cosetta, Vitale Elisa WORDS OF LATIN ORIGINS  We have read and analized Obama’s acceptance speech: we searched the English words from Latin language.  405 words out of 4320 in the text have latin origins: there are 237 nouns, 86 verbs, 66 adjectives and 16 prepositions / adverbs  Latin language is still living in today’s English. SUBDIVISION BY SEMANTIC FIELD SUBDIVISION BY SEMANTIC FIELD  Economy: asset, cost, crisis, debt, deficit, economy, financial, import, million, millionaire, money, monopoly, mortgage, poverty, price, rate, recession, surplus, tributes, tax, value, invest, pay, spend, economic, poor, export, restore.  Education: class, classroom, college, education, school, student, university.  Energy: air, carbon, climate, energy, fuel, gallon, impact, oil, plant, pollution, turbine, reduce, remedy, waste, nuclear, renewable, solar, toxic.  Family: family, father, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, generation, mother, parents.  Medicine: cancer, hospital, Medicare, prescription, surgery, amputated, cure, recover, save, safe. SUBDIVISION BY SEMANTIC FIELD  Military: ally, army, attack, battle, bomb, coalition, coverage, enemy, extremists, sailor, soldier, uniform, tragedy, victories, military, tragic, recruit, serve, defend, support, protected, sacrifice, defeat, eliminate.  Politics: administration, campaign, candidate, competitors, convention, decision, delegate, democracy, dictator, diplomacy, election, government, legacy, member, nomination, November, opponent, politicians, president, republicans, reform, senate, states, unions, approve, control, decide, elect, vote, national, republican, united, commission, congress, governor, political, regulation, state, country, power, alliance, coverage.  Religion: charity, Christian, faith, creator, celebrate. SUBDIVISION BY SEMANTIC FIELD  Science: deductions, engine, experimentation, exploration, innovative, notion, progress, science, scientist, advance, know, prove.  Values: ambitions, aspirations, dignity, dreamers, faith, honor, idea, ideals, interests, heroes, initiative, optimism, spirit, inspire, pride, principle, promise, sustain, human, inalienable, innocent, loyal, pacific, respected, responsible, responsive, right.  Work: acceptance, career, company, construction, corporation, customer, effort, factory, failings, farmer, foundation, founder, industry, inaction, manufacture, mill, office, opportunity, people, product, success, system, create, founding, corporate, efficient, principal, truck. OBSERVATIONS AND HYPOTHESIS ABOUT WORDS  Most of the words are names. This is because in English the verbs have few flections: you need more nouns to make meanings.  The English language uses mostly short sentences  there aren’t many textual connectives.  The Puritans (a significant grouping of English Protestants) influenced the political sphere (they promulgated the Declaration of Independence)  there are words linked to religion.  The larger semantic fields are those linked to politics and the economy, followed by values, work and education. This is because the gradual loss of work, values and education is one of the issues that concern mainly the president.  Obama repeats particular words with the intention to focus the attention of his supporters on ideas or questions quite specific.