Interactive Powerpoint_How to Master effective communication
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3. What is Linguistics? «… window to understanding the brain» Pinker. S.( 2012)
Linguistics studies the language(s) – The way how language works
language form
language meaning
language in context
Linguistics studies the influence of social, historical and political factors on
language
Linguistics studies semiotics (the study of signs and symbols
4. What is Language?
Language is cognition and communication
Language is a medium to express past, present and future.
Language is a social phenomenon
5. Language has two primary meanings:
An abstract concept, and a specific linguistic system, Ferdinad de Saussure
formulated the distinction of langue as a concept, and parole for the concrete
usage of speech in a particular language.
Chomsky used the terms competence and performance; he describes
'competence' as an idealized capacity that is located as a psychological or mental
property or function and ‘performance’ as the production of actual utterances
6. Chomsky:
Language is innate, that is why children acquire their own language easily.
They acquire grammar which goes well beyond imitation of any utterances
they may hear.
There must exist some kind of innate, genetically programmed Language
Acquisition Device (LAD) which directs the process whrereby children infer
rules from the language data they are exposed to
7. How does language work?
What words mean = Semantics
How to make new words = Morphology
How to put words together = Syntax
How to pronunce words= Phonetic
What word combinations are best in what situations = Pragmatics
("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the
first request did not produce results)
8. What is not language?
It is not Written language
Proper Grammar
Thought
9. Design Features of the Language
Arbitrarineess: no natural resemblance to their meaning
flor, flower, fleur
Duality: elements that has no meaning in themselves but which combine to
form units at another level do have meaning .
f / v safe / seif/ , save / seiv/