Quiz 6

Question 1

What skills are involved in communicative competence?

Answer 1

Asking questions, making requests, telling stories, learning routines, initiating conversations, maintain conversations, turn taking, stay on topic, know and use appropriate volume, appropriate tone of voice, respond effectively to feedback, when to use jargon

Question 2

How are adult interactions different from preschoolers?

Answer 2

Topics, turn taking, tone of voice, requesting, volume

Question 3

Speech acts:

Answer 3

John austin-Introduced the idea of a speech as an “act” or behavior. Words can be actions.
Speech acts are.(needs authority) Utterances used to accomplish things
Ex:naming a ship(cracking bottle of coke on it and naming it), verdicts, conferring of degrees, baptizing, apologizing, hiring and firing,giving an order to attack
The situation of the utterance is also important. (ex: the president at a party kidding that at midnight we would bomb some other country)
3 components of speech act theory:
–Locutionary: the act of saying a sentence that makes sense and refers to something
–Illocutionary: (intent=illocutionary) the speaker’s purpose in saying that sentence
–Perlocutionary: the effect a statement has on a listener (depends on age)

Question 4

3 components of speech act theory:

Answer 4

3 components of speech act theory:
–Locutionary: the act of saying a sentence that makes sense and refers to something (actual statement)

–Illocutionary: (intent=illocutionary) the speaker’s purpose in saying that sentence (request for the window to be opened or ironic statement about a cold room)

–Perlocutionary: the effect a statement has on a listener (depends on age) (

Question 5

Cognitive Development Theory-John Piaget

Answer 5

• egocentric versus no-egocentric (egocentric-you think everyone else feels,sees, and thinks what you do)
• Egocentrism diminishes around 7-10 yrs of age

Question 6

Language in Social Contexts-outline

Answer 6

Nonegocentric language
Modeling after piaget’s research procedure other researchers found that a chid’s “egocentrism” varies according to their familiarity with the context.
More familiar circumstance leads to not as egocentric language
Less familiar circumstances leads to more use of egocentric language
Requests:
Gives distinctions on austin’s 3 components, indirect requests
Production of indirect requests: children often use aggravators with friends. With superiors such as adults children use mitigators
Conversation skills:
3a: taking turns
3b: maintaining a topic
3c: Giving and responding to feedback
3d: language styles

Question 7

AAE:

Answer 7

Dialects: African American English
Phonological charcteristics-reversal of sounds at the end of words, consonant cluster reduction)
Syntactic characteristics-double negatives, auxilary verb doesnt always match with pronoun”they is”
Pragmatics features-signifying language exaggeration your momma is so skinny a fruit loop would work as a hula hoop(exaggeration for humor)

Question 8

communicative competence:

Answer 8

having language competency plus the knowledge of the social rules.

Question 9

List ways you convey or interpret meaning in your communicative interactions

Answer 9

Choice of words, choice of structure, tone of voice, use of prior knowledge, laughter, gestures, emotion, appearances, facial expressions

Question 10

Requests

Answer 10

1) Gives distinctions on Austin’s 3 components
- Indirect Requests
2) Different forms of requests based on the situation: Direct and indirect requests comprehension of these ages 2.5-3

Question 11

production of indirect requests

Answer 11

children often use aggravators with friends, with usperiors these use mitigators