is the interactional function which is concerned with establishing and maintaining social relations between the members of a speech community (Brown and Yule 1983: 1). This latter function‚ which is also called the phatic communion‚ is of great importance since it is responsible for harmonizing people’s life. Trudgill (1974: 1) states that when two English people who have never met before come face to face in‚ say‚ a train‚ they find it awkward not to speak to each other! Therefore‚ one of them
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Some Preliminaries about Language IV. Define the following terms: 1. Linguistics: Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. 2. Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology. 3. Syntax: The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax. . 4 Design features: it referred to the defining properties of human language that tell the difference between human language that tell the difference
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IFL A4.2 (2011-2012) Chapter 1: What is Language? - - .b lo gs po t.c om - Language can be viewed as a social fact‚ as a psychological state (mental dictionary)‚ as a set of structures (a grammatical system: a system to what orders the words have to come in if they are to make sense)‚ or as a collection of outputs (utterances/sentences: spoken or written). Language can be viewed as a set of choices (different ways of saying a sentence)‚ a set of contrasts (an inversion
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1 Linguistics and sociolinguistics It is difficult to see adequately the functions of language‚ because it is so deeply rooted in the whole of human behaviour that it may be suspected that there is little in the functional side of our conscious behaviour in which language does not play its part. Sapir (1933) Language is a complicated business. In everyday talk‚ we use the word ‘language’ in many different ways. It isn’t clear how ‘language’ should be defined or what the person on the street thinks
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10.2011 What is Linguistics? The study of human languages; including the influence of one language on another; how language and words are formed and change within time; the rules of the language- how words are formed‚ the structure of sentences and words; relationship between culture and language; how language is acquired- the process of language acquisition (foreigner verses mother tongue language). There are two approaches/types of linguistics: 1. Traditional Linguistics- the only field
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Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valery BrusovPaper Corpus Linguistics‚ Lexicology and Translation Subject- Lexicology Faculty- IC Year - II Group - III Lecturer - K. SoghikyanStudent – Mane Nersisyan1586865360044Yerevan 2013 0Yerevan 2013 Introduction This paper includes information about corpus linguistics‚ its connection with lexicology and translation. The latter is the most important one and I am keen on finding and introducing something which is mainly connected with my
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John Baugh in his article “Linguistic Profiling” (2003) discusses “linguistic discrimination based on speech or writing” (2003‚ p. 155). The article discusses the negative and positive effects that linguistic profiling has on people‚ specifically on the people with an “undesirable accent or dialect” (2003‚ p.155). Much like racial profiling and its negative effects on people of color‚ linguistic profiling is the practice of imposing certain social characteristics on people who speak with a particular
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What is psycholinguistics? http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~pfoltz/psy301/overheadsfirstthird.html The three primary processes investigated in psycholinguistics •Language Comprehension •Language Production •Language Acquisition Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive science What will be covered in this class? • How do we produce and recognize speech? • How do we perceive words‚ letters‚ and sentences? • How do we learn and recall information from texts? • How can we improve
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Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods Volker Gast 1 Introduction: The subject matter of contrastive linguistics Narrowly defined‚ contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bi- or multilingual speakers‚ and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text‚ discourse)
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STRUCTURALISM IN LINGUISTICS Introduction It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas‚ nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather‚ I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and other transformationalists. Structuralism in linguistics has come to
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