LESSON 5

Question 1

it refers to the analytical study of language, any language, to reveal its structure— the different kinds of language units

Answer 1

Linguistics

Question 2

argued that there were political and academic consequences to these choices of words.

Answer 2

Dell hymes

Question 3

But to ____ and others it was exactly this communicative ability of language to produce results in social life that held the most interesting problems and prompted the most important questions.

Answer 3

Dell Hymes

Question 4

_____ and others stressed the notion of linguistic competence—the underlying knowledge and ability a person has for a language, regardless of his or her actual manifestation—or performance of that language in a social context at any given time.

Answer 4

Noam Chomsky