entities of the world‚ how word litterally connect to things 2 Deixis and distance Deixis: it means pointing via language. It depends on the speaker and hearer sharing the same context. Deictic expression: any linguistic form used to acomplish this ‘pointing’. They are also called indexicals. Person deixis: me‚ you. Also proper nouns and noun phrases. Honorifics: expressions which indicate higher status. Social deixis: are the circumstances which lead to the choice of using honorifics
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Analysis on the Transcript ‘Cami-knickers’ The transcript ‘cami-knickers’ is a spoken interaction between J‚ her cousin‚ E‚ her friend‚ T‚ and her aunts‚ M and S at a wedding reception. This means that they are all related or have a close relationship with each over. Throughout the whole interaction they are all very comfortable around one another and use a lot of different spoken language features in it. In the transcript J starts off the conversation by using a discourse marker. She starts
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and their meanings are combined. It also deals with peculiarities of syntactic units‚ their behavior in different contexts. Syntactic units may be analyzed from different points of view‚ and accordingly‚ different syntactic theories exist. 2. Kinds of syntactic theories. Transformational-Generative Grammar. The Transformational grammar was first suggested by American scholar Zelling Harris as a method of analyzing sentences and was later elaborated by another American scholar Noam Chomsky
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explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s)‚ in particular‚ deixis and frame knowledge. The argument is that a textworld model is particularly adequate for the description of the way in which advertising discourse is processed in an active‚ dynamic‚ context-dependent way. In this process‚ addressees reconstruct the
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Competence has five components: 1. Discourse Competence: The selection‚ sequencing‚ and arrangement of words‚ structures and utterances to achieve a unified spoken or written text. Examples of Discourse Competence skills: A. Cohesion B. Deixis C. Coherence 2. Linguistic Competence: The basic elements of language: A. Syntax B. Morphology C. Lexicon D. Phonology E. Orthography 3. Actional Competence: Conveying and understanding speech acts. Examples of
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The Study of Language 1. Origins of language: Bow wow theory: mensen deden de geluiden van dieren na. Het geluid wat ze hoorden zo werd het object genoemd. Onomatopoeia: words containing sounds similar to the noises they describe (v.b. bang‚ cuckoo‚ dus woorden die klinken als geluiden) [pic] The human brain is not only large relative human size but also lateralized. (lateralized: divided into a left side and a right side‚ with control of functions on one side or the other) Innateness
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Characteristics of persuasive language and comparative analysis of two texts Introduction and literature review Kress and Leeuwen (1990: 2-3) state that all kinds of texts ‘today involve a complex interplay of written text‚ images and other graphic elements’ which together can define ‘visual literacy’. In addition‚ Goddard (2002: 5) argues that we are so used to being surrounded by advertisements that we do not think about ‘its nature as a form of discourse‚ as a system of language use’
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University of San Carlos – Technological Center ENGL 102N – Introduction to Linguistics A Written Report on Pragmatics Presented by: John Reyrani E. Cadeleña Mark Christian A. Generalao Jan Kentrex C. Palalay AB Linguistics & Literature – III Presented to: Ms. Cindy Augusto‚ MA 12:30-1:30 PM MWF PRAGMATICS A subfield of linguistics that studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation
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Martin also shows a lack of respect for Corene through his violation of politeness. Yule argues that within a social setting there are “general principles for being polite in [a] social interaction‚” (1996‚ p. 60) and those who take part in a conversation are “generally aware that such norms and principles exist.” (1996‚ p. 60) Politeness shows a respect for another person’s place in society‚ in this case‚ as an authority figure. In familiar social settings‚ people involved in a conversation will
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the sentences less detailed is vitally important. He adapts his spoken language by using fillers ‘so’‚ ‘okay’ these allow him time to think and also allow the audience time to catch up on what he is saying. From the amount of technical language and deixis used it is clear Jamie tries to promote cooking through the senses‚ as he likes to show the texture‚ sound and smell‚ ‘when you see those babies and taste ‘em’. The purpose of these features is so that Jamie Oliver can make himself feel secure when
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