The main parts of a language.

1. LANGUAGE
PROF. FELIPE

2. What is Language?
DEFINITION. FUNCTION PHONETICS.

3. PROF. FELIPE
DEFINITION
 a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of
the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural
tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language;
the Yiddish language.
 communication by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary
sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.
 the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract (opposed
to speech).
Taken from www.dictionary.com

4. PROF. FELIPE
DEFINITION
 any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a
number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one
another.
 a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means
of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its
culture, express themselves.
 any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or
conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc.: the language of
mathematics; sign language. Taken from www.dictionary.com

5. PROF. FELIPE
FUNCTION
 A language function explains why someone says something.
 There is a wide range of language functions. Here are examples of guessing,
expressing wishes and persuading—all language functions.
Taken from www.thoughtco.com
Guessing
 He might be busy today.
 She must be at work if she's not at home.
 Maybe she's got a new boyfriend! Taken from www.thoughtco.com
Expressing Wishes
 I wish I had five million dollars!
 If I could choose, I'd buy the blue car.
 I'd like to have a steak, please.
Taken from www.thoughtco.com

6. PROF. FELIPE
FUNCTION
Persuading
 I think you'll find our product is the best you can buy.
 Come on, let's go have some fun! What can it hurt?
 If you give me a moment, I can explain why we should do this deal..
Taken from www.thoughtco.com
 Thinking about which language function you'd like to use helps you learn phrases
used to accomplish these tasks. For example, if you want to make a suggestion
you'll use these phrases: Taken from www.thoughtco.com
 How about ...
 Let's ...
 Why don't we ...
 I'd suggest we ...

7. PROF. FELIPE
PHONETICS
 I Knowing a language includes knowing the sounds of that language.
 Phonetics is the study of speech sounds
 We are able to segment a continuous stream of speech into distinct parts and
recognize the parts in other words
 Everyone who knows a language knows how to segment sentences into words
and words into sounds
 We are capable of making sounds that are not speech sounds in English but are
in other languages
Taken from www. scholar.harvard.edu/phonetics

8. PROF. FELIPE
PHONETICS
The science of phonetics aims to describe all the sounds of all the world’s
languages.
Acoustic phonetics: focuses on the physical properties of the sounds of
language
Auditory phonetics: focuses on how listeners perceive the sounds of
language
Articulatory phonetics: focuses on how the vocal tract produces the
sounds of language
 . Taken from www. scholar.harvard.edu/phonetics

9. THANKS!
PROF. FELIPE