Introduction to Linguistic Flashcards
Is defined as linguist communication, speech communication, cognitive ability, and culture based
Language
As speech communication, language is about the production and reception of sounds
Verbal communication
Language as a cognitive ability is professed as an instrument of thinking, where language mirrors the mind.
Mental process
Perceived as sets of signs and a system of symbols grounded on pure arbitrary concords.
Linguistic communication
The arrangement of these words in the sentence is systematic, which means that you cannot rearrange these words unless the meaning remains
Syntax / syntactic
Language is a means of communicating the culture of a particular community or members of society
Culture-shaped
He write this quote “ It is time to return to viewing language as cultural because language is a social institution “
Saussure (1916)
Give the language views
Structuralists
Transformationalists
Functionalists
Interactionists
Believe that language is a structured system of components, an idea with a specific framework.
Structuralists
The__ assert that learning language is putting all the pieces together because they are interrelated.
Structuralists
Language is a generative and creative process
Transformationalists
Viewed language as an instrument for communication and a vehicle for expression
Functionalists
He confirmed that language potentially creates not only meaning but also society, which is fully achieved when it is used in functional communication
Michael Halliday (2018)
Viewed language as a product of a human desire to communicate with another and acquire language which one desires to learn
Interactionists
According to him language is developed through social interaction
Vygotsky (1962)