General Vocab

Question 0

langue

Answer 0

abstract notion of language as a system (de Saussure)

Question 1

referential

Answer 1

used to transmit information

Question 2

parole

Answer 2

everyday language (de Saussure)

Question 3

competence

Answer 3

abstract, unconscious knowledge of a language and its rules (Chomsky)

Question 4

performance

Answer 4

actual practice of language (Chomsky)

Question 5

phonology

Answer 5

the study of sounds and the ability to recognize and reproduce meaningful sounds

Question 6

morphology

Answer 6

study of word formation and internal structure

Question 7

typology

Answer 7

study of the distribution of different grammatical components

Question 8

syntax

Answer 8

sentence structure; order of words

Question 9

semantics

Answer 9

study of meaning

Question 10

pragmatics

Answer 10

study of language use, actual utterance of language

Question 11

multifunctionality

Answer 11

ability of language to have many functions, including expressive, conative (addressee), referential (3rd person), poetic/playful, phatic (testing channel), and meta-linguistic

Question 12

language ideology

Answer 12

internalized beliefs, attitudes, or ideas about language

Question 13

practice

Answer 13

structures constrain and give rise to human action (Bourdieu)

Question 14

indexicality

Answer 14

intersection of language and social relation through use of signs