Week 2 Flashcards
1
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Metalinguistic Skills
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The ability to talk about language, analyze it, think about it, judge it.
2
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Speech
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- Verbal means of communicating
- Involves precision in planning and executing specific motor sequences
3
Q
Three properties of language
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- Social tools
- Rule-governed system with underlying rules or patterns that occur repeatedly
- it is generative
4
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Linguistic Competence
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- A language user’s underlying knowledge about the systems of rules
- Cannot be measured directly
- We can only directly measure linguistic performance
5
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Linguistic Performance
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- Linguistic Knowledge in actual use
- What we observe
6
Q
Language is…
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Generative
7
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Synonyms
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Words with almost identical features
Different words that carry similar meanings
8
Q
Antonyms
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are opposites
9
Q
Discourse
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Language activity such as having a conversation or telling a narrative
10
Q
Two types of speech arts
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- Indirect
- Direct
11
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Indirect Speech Art
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Several possible interpretations
12
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Direct Speech Art
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Only has one interpretation
13
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4 Important aspects in pragmatics
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- Turn-taking
- Establishing and maintaining a topic
- Making relevant contributions
- Repair: correcting conversational errors
14
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Cooperation Principles - 4 aspects
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- Quantity is important (not too much info, not too little)
- Truthful and based on sufficient evidence
- Relevant
- Direct (avoid vaugeness)
15
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Dialects
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- A dialect is a language-rule system used by an identifiable group of people that varies in some way from an ideal language standard
- mutually intelligent
