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Language, Culture and Society
Social dialects
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Alia Atikah Bt Jaafar
Nur Ain Batrisyia Bt Mohd Zaini
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3. 3
Overview of topics
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Language and Languages
Speech vs. Writing
Approaches to language: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive
Grammar and its parts
Arbitrariness (conventionality)
4. 1. Language
WHAT IS A LANGUAGE?
•Language is a system that associates sounds (or gestures) with meanings in
a way that uses words and sentences.
•language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds
and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country
or region for talking or writing.
•Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It tries:
first, to observe languages and to describe them accurately,
then, to find generalizations within what has been described,
finally, to draw conclusions about the general nature of human
language.
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5. What is Applied linguistics ?
• Applied linguistics attempts to make practical use of the knowledge derived
from general linguistic research – in order, for example, to:
• improve the ways in which a student’s native language is taught.
• help people learn foreign language more efficiently.
• write better dictionaries.
• improve therapy for people with language problems.
• search the Internet more efficiently and successfully. Linguistics overlaps
and (ideally) cooperates with psychology, sociology, anthropology,
philosophy, logic, mathematics, computer science, speech pathology,
acoustics, music, cryptanalysis, etc.
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6. 2. Speech vs. Writing
2.1 Why it is sometimes claimed that writing is primary?
• Written texts tend to be more carefully worded and better
organized than spoken texts, they contain fewer errors,
hesitations, and incomplete sentences, because writing is
usually planned in advance, is subject to fewer time
constraints, is proofread, etc.
• However: How about instant messaging, quick e-mails?
•Spelling is more uniform across different individuals, places
and times using the same language than is pronunciation
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•However: UK: tyre, draught, colour, dialogue, penalise, centre, defence, ...
USA: tire, draft, color, dialog, penalize, center, defense, ...
•Moreover: Is uniformity the same as primacy?
•Written texts last and can be preserved for a long time.
However: CDs, youtube ...can preserve speech
•Writing styles change much more slowly than speech styles,
and so writing seems more “permanent” and “authoritative”.
•However: This can be is also disadvantage – writing lags
behind the times.
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8. 2. Speech vs. Writing
• 2.2 Linguists’ reasons for claiming that speech is primary
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• Historically, spoken language existed much earlier than writing. Writing
was most likely invented in Sumer (Mesopotamia, current Iraq) about
5500 years ago. Language probably exists for 40,000 or more.
• There are many societies which only speak their language and do not
write it. And no society uses only a written language (with no spoken
form).
• We learn to speak before we learn to write.
9. 2. Speech vs. Writing
• Most people say more during one month than they write during their
entire lives.
• Writing must be taught, whereas spoken language is acquired
automatically.
• Psycholinguistic evidence suggest that the processing and production of
written language is overlaid on the spoken language centers in the brain
(plus certain other centers).
• Speech contains information that writing lacks – intonation, stress, voice
quality ...
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to Language
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3.1 Descriptive Approach
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• Linguists attempt to describe the grammar of the language that exists
in the minds of its speakers, i.e., to create a model of speakers’ mental
grammar.
• The resulting descriptive grammar describes person’s basic linguistic
knowledge. It explains how it is possible to speak and understand and
it summarize what speakers know about the sounds, words, phrases
and sentences of their language.
• Creating a descriptive grammar involves observing the language and
trying to discover the principles or rules that govern it.
• Descriptive rules accept as given the patterns speakers actually use
and try to account for them. Descriptive rules allow for different
dialects of a language and even variation within one dialect.
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3.2 Prescriptive Approach
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• Prescriptivists tell you someone’s idea of what is “good” or
“bad”.
• Prescriptive rules make a value judgment about the correctness
of certain utterances and generally try to enforce a single standard.
For example: English:
• Don’t split infinitives; don’t say: to easily understand
• Don’t end a sentence with a preposition; don’t say Where are
you from?
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3.2 Prescriptive Approach
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• The people who prescriptive grammar make up the rules of the
grammar.
• They attempt to impose the rules for speaking and writing on people
without much regard for what the majority of educated speakers of a
language actually say and write.
• So-called prescriptive grammar usually focuses only on a few issues
and leaves the rest of a language undescribed (unprescribed?). In fact,
from the linguistic point of view, this is not grammar at all.
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In summary: Linguists describe language, they do not prescribe it. As a
science, linguistics:
• is not in the business of making value judgments about language use.
• studies how language really is used and then attempts to describe the
facts, in order to analyse and, eventually, explain them.
An Analogy:
• Physicists:
– don’t complain that objects fall to earth.
– simply observe and describe the fact of falling, then try to discover the
laws that are behind it.
• Linguists:
– don’t say that people shouldn’t use ain’t or bysme ‘colloq. Would 1pl’
– simply observe that some people in certain situations do use ain’t
(without judging, although they do note any systematic correlations of
such use with particular groups, regions, situations, styles, etc.)
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• Grammar is a language system, a set of principles (rules) that underlie a
language.
• Mental Grammar – the knowledge of language that allows a person to
produce and understand utterances
• Grammar can be described as having different parts:
• Since linguists' study all of these, the terms are also used to refer to
subfields of linguistics.
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syntax
phonetics
semantics
phonology
pragmatics
morphology
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• Phonetics– the production and perception of speech sounds as physical
entities.
E.g., [v] is pronounced by bringing the lower lip into contact with upper teeth
and forcing air out of the mouth while the vocal folds vibrate and nasal cavity
is closed off.
• Phonology– the sound patterns (the sound system of a particular
language) and of sounds as abstract entities.
• In Czech, a word never ends with a voiced obstruent (e.g., zubu [zubu]
‘toothgen’ but zub [zup] ‘toothnom’).
• In English, a word never starts with [kn] (note that knife starts with [n] not
[k]), while in German it is possible (e.g., Knabe ‘boy’)
• In Setswana (a language of southern Africa), a consonant is always
followed by a vowel – when the speakers adopted the word Christmas
from English, they pronounce as kirisimasi.
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• Morphology– the word structure and of systematic relations
between words.
• Morpheme– the building-blocks of words, the smallest linguistic unit
which has a meaning or grammatical function.
• Words are composed of morphemes (one or more). Sing-er-s answer-
ed un-kind-ly uˇc-i-tel-k-u ‘she-teacheracc’
• In comparison with many other languages, English has rather simple
morphology.
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• Syntax – phrase and sentence structure
• Syntacticians try to discover rules that govern: word order: The book is
on the table. *Table book on is the the. agreement: I am here. *I are here.
subject/object forms (cases): I like her. *I like she. etc.
• Note: In linguistics, placing an asterisk (*) before a sentence
marks that sentence as ungrammatical, i.e., not of the kind
normally used by most speakers of that language.
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Semantics is the literal meaning of sentences, phrases, words and
morphemes. E.g., What is the meaning of the word vegetable?
E.g., How does the word order influence meaning of sentence in
English?
Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to
entire texts or to single words. For example, "destination" and "last stop"
technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyse
their subtle shades of meaning.
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•Pragmatics studies language usage, especially how context influences
the interpretation of utterances – the same sentence can be used to do
different things in different situations.
E.g., Gee, it’s hot in here! can be used either to state a fact or to get
someone open a window.
Simply put: semantics is the literal meaning and pragmatics is the
intended meaning.
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The relation between form and meaning in language can be either:
• Arbitrary (conventional), in which case:
–the meaning is not deducible from the form
–the form is not deducible from the meaning
–the connection between the form and meaning must be learned via memorization
• Nonarbitrary
–the meaning is (at least partly) derivable from the form, and vice versa
• E.g., buzzEn, bzuˇcen´ıCz – ‘sound of the type made by (the wings of) bees’.
• iconicity – the most extreme example of nonarbitrary form/meaning connection:
the form shows a physical correspondence to the meaning and vice versa
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Non-language examples:
• arbitrary: traffic lights, warning siren
• nonarbitrary: a “no-smoking” sign (with a crossed-out cigarette), a
deer-crossing sign (with a silhouette of a deer)
Language is overwhelmingly arbitrary.
If language were not arbitrary, then:
• different languages would not use different words for the same thing
(in fact, there would be just one language), as they obviously do:
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English tree, Czech strom, French arbre, German Baum, Japanese ki,
Korean namu.
• word forms would not change over time.
Old English (before 1100) hu¯s → Modern English house
• word meanings would not change over time
Middle English (before 1500) girle ‘child’ → Modern English girl ‘girl’
Middle English nice ‘ignorant’ → Modern English nice ‘pleasant’
Old Czech letadlo ‘bird’ → Modern Czech letadlo ‘airplane’
23. 5.1 Limited Exceptions: Onomatopoeia and Sound
Symbolism
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There are two very limited and partial exceptions to the arbitrariness of
language:
•Onomatopoeia = words whose sound imitates either the sound they
denote or a sound associated with something they denote. These words
are not entirely arbitrary.
However, different languages represent the same natural sounds in
slightly different ways (e.g., . English cock-a-doodle-doo 6= Czech
kykyryk´y), which shows that they are not completely nonarbitrary,
either.
•Sound symbolism refers to the very vague, elusive way in which
certain sounds “feel” more appropriate for describing certain objects or
meanings than do other sounds.
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Symbolism
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–the vowels [i] or [I] seem to suggest smallness teensy-weensy, wee,
little, Tommy (vs. Tom), squeak; but: big
–to English speakers, gl- suggest brightness: glint glitter, gleam,
glow; but: glove, glue, glum, glop
25. 5.2 Why is arbitrariness is an advantage?
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•It allows user of a communication system to adopt the most
convenient means available for communicating, since it obviates any
need for the forms of signs to bear an inherent relationship to their
meanings.
•It also makes it much easier for users of a communication system to
refer to abstract entities, since it is hard to find a combination that
involves an inherent link between a form and an abstract meaning.
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Adapted & Compiled by
Dr.Moustafa M. Shalaby
mostafa.shalaby1970@gmail.com
PhD Corpus Linguistics
From Dr.
Jirka Hana - October 2, 2011
Twitted by
Linguistics in Its Unpretentious Frame
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