Introduction to Linguistics Overview PDF

Introducti on to Linguistics Ms. Shiela S.M. Aringo  Agenda: Overview of Views about Macroskills of Communicati Linguistics Langauge Langauge ve Competence  What is languag e? Linguistics is… the sci...

Introducti on to Linguistics Ms. Shiela S.M. Aringo  Agenda: Overview of Views about Macroskills of Communicati Linguistics Langauge Langauge ve Competence  What is languag e? Linguistics is… the scientific study of language (Lyons, 2009) Linguistics is…is the science of human language.  Linguists function is… to describe language how it happens and its  What is GRAMMAR? Rules for combining sounds into words, word formation, making sentences, assigning meaning GRAMMAR Prescripti ve Grammar PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR which is a set of rules based on how people think language should be used. GRAMMAR Descripti ve Grammar GRAMMAR focuses on describing the language as it is used, not saying how it should be used.  Can animals learn  CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE Creative Shared Arbitrary Composit Dynamic e CHARACTERISTICS OF Creative LANGUAGE man, hit, yeste will, woma put rday, the, n, tonig in bus, ht park,  CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE Arbitrary CHARACTERISTICS OF Shared LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF Dynamic LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE Composit e CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.  Views about languag  THE VIEWS… FUNCTIONALI INTERACTIONI ST ST STRUCTURA TRANSACTIONAL LIST IST  THE FUNCTIONALIST… language is a dynamic system through which members of a community exchange information.  THE INTERACTIONIST… believe that language is a vehicle for establishing interpersonal relations and for performing social transactions between individuals.  THE STRUCTURALIST… believes that language is equated in linguistic forms.  THE TRANSACTIONALIS T… that believes language is a predetermined mental ability (Lavadens, 2011). MACROSKI LLS  2 DIVISIONS RECEPTIV PRODUCTI E VE  RECEPTIV E Listenin g Reading Viewing  PRODUCT IVE Speakin Writing g Communic ative Compete nce? Performa nce? Noam Chomsky Linguistic Linguistic Performance Competen ce  Noam Chomsky Linguistic Competence unconscious knowledge of grammar that allows a speaker to use and understand a language.  Noam Chomsky Linguistic Performance the actual use of language in concrete situations Dell Hymes Communicative Competence is the ability to use grammatical competence in a variety of communicative situations (Hymes 1972 in Bagarik, SPEAKING SPEAKING Setting/ scene  SPEAKING Participants SPEAKING Ends SPEAKING Act sequence SPEAKING Key  SPEAKING Instrumentalities SPEAKING Norms SPEAKING Genre Any questions? Let's work together