Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Communicative competence

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Made by Dell Hymes. To refer to the master of adult rules for socially and culturally appropriate speech

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Connotative meaning

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Additional meaning of a word

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Creole

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Language that has developed over one or more past generations from 2 or more distinct language

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Denotative Meaning

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Formal meaning’s of a word, as in given in a dictionary

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Design Features of Language

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Characteristics of language that, when taken together, differentiate it from other known animal communication systems

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Discourse

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Meaningful utterance or series of utterances united by a common theme

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Enthropragmetrics

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Study of language use in a specific culture

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Grammer

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Set of rules that describes the patterns of linguistic usage observed by members of the same speech community

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Heteroglossia

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The Co-existence of multiple varieties of a specific language

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Langauge

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System of symbols we use to encode our experiences of the world and of one another

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Langauge IDeology

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System of beliefs about how language features relate to social features and what the reveal about the people who use them

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Linguistic Competence

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Noam Chomsky. Refer to the mastery of adult grammer

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Linguistic Relativity Principle

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(Sapir and Whorf hypothesis) Language has the power to shape the way people see the world

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Linguistic

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Study of language

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Metalanguage

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Language used to talk about language

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Metaphor

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Meaningful link between 2 expressions from different semantic domains

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Mophemes

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Smallest meaning-bearing units in any language (refers to a young male)

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Morphology

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Study of the smallest units of meaning

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Native Speaker,

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Person speaking their language since childbirth

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Phonemes

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Units of distinct sounds that come together to form words

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Phonology

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Study of sounds

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Pidgin,

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Simple language with no native speakers that develops in a single generation between members of communities that possess distinct native languages (create new language that doesn’t come from their parents language)

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Pragmetrics

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Study of language in the context of its use

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Sematics

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Study of meaning

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Syntax
Study of sentence structures
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Vocabulary
Words used in particular language or by members of a particular speech community
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Charles Hocket
16 Design features of human language ``` 6 most important Openness Arbitrariness Duality of patterning Displacement Semanticity Prevarication ```
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Dell Hymes
Thought competent adult speakers of a language do more than just follow grammatical rules when they speak
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Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
Linguistic anthropologists that suggested language has the power to shape the way people see the world (Linguistic Relativity)
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5 specialties of formal linguistic analysis
``` Phonology Morphology Semantics Syntax Pragmatics ```
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Deborah Tannen
Studied the relationship between language use and gender
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Terrence Deacon
Closed primate call systems don't map onto any of the elements of human language Human calls include sobbing and crying
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Prevarication
Telling a lie, specially in a sneaky way
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Structual Ambiguity
Ex. The man saw the boy with the binoculars
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Linguistic Diversity
Largest barrier to communication