Minggu, 15 November 2015

Introduction To English Linguistics


 Chapter 1
Competences based : you should understand the language. You have knowlegde about language.
Performance based : how you make a speech and how you make percformance infront of people
Grammar : the study of rules of language at variuos levels of structure
Pragmatic : the study of principles specifying how language is used.
Prescriptivist  : prescribe usage : giving – direction make identification
how to make the correct speech or write.  ( for example : teacher)
Descriptivist :  describe the language.  Describe how language is used. ( for example : analytical)
Semantic : the study of meaning in language.
Semiotic : system about sign

Chapter 2
Cognate Vocabulary : vocabulary that languages share having a common origin in an ancestral language.
Genetic classification of language : Indo-European language, West English
Language death : is a type of language shift. However, unlike bilingualism,which involves speaker shifting from one language to another in different contexts, language death occurs when, over time, a language loses all its speaker. The procces  of language death is typically slow, and involves successive generations of speakers abandoning a language until only relatively few people remain as fluent speakers. Once these people die the language dies too.
Shyncronic : try to investigating the language.
Diachronic :  hystory of the language that changes from the past the past untill today.
Tytypological classification based on morphology : Morphologically, language have traditionally been classified as being aglunative, isolating or fusional

Chapter 3
Grammatical meaning vs pragmatic meaning
Grammatical meaning: how words have individual meaning (basedon dictionary)
Pragmanic meaning:  the role that context plays in the enterpretation of what people says.
Sentences vs utterance
Sentence: a grammatical well formed unit that has subject and predicate
Utterance: a linguistics constraction maynot grammatically but has meaning and communicative.

Speech act theory
The difference between saying and doing
Locutionary: just the saying
Illocutionary: make someone do something
Prelocutionary: the effect of locutionary and illocutionary, maybe upset them or there is no effect


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