Spoken Discourse Assignment Introduction In this paper‚ the aim is to apply different methods of discourse analysis to a selected extract of transcribed language to establish who holds the power during the interaction. In a normal interview situation‚ the interviewer will control the topic change of the interaction and ask the questions and the interviewee will respond. One of the aims is to establish whether this is the case‚ and to see if this remains constant throughout the extract. The initial
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Literary Studies II Narrative texts: tell a story‚ succession of events in a certain time sequence (distinguishes narrative from lyrical text Text types: classified through • Narrativity (narrative/non narrative) • Medium (oral (radio news brodcast/written) • Form (prose/ verse (epic)) • Factivity (factual/ fictional) Narrative text types: novel‚ epic‚ short story‚ tales‚ songs... Non narrative text types: argumentative essay‚ scientific paper... Discourse types:
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Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Trans. Marina Yaguello and Trevor Harris. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 1998. The speech event‚ an act of verbal communication‚ brings into play 6 features‚ closely interdependent. An utterance does not necessarily/usually have only one function. CONSTITUATIVE FACTORS of a SPEECH EVENT Addresser THE FUNCTIONS of LANGUAGE PURPOSE INSPIRING emotive conveying lyric poetry (first person) conveying elegaic poetry (second person) conveying
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all the lexigram. Austin and Sherman did not use this because their hands were too broad to distinguish the symbol they selected. Data Recording The utterances from the lexigrams were recorded for 17 months. There were 5 classifications; Correct Incorrect Spontaneous (without prompt) Imitated (containing any part of a companion’s prior utterance) Structured (by a question‚ request or being shown an object) Vocabulary Acquisition
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students because it is frustrating. It is frustrating because it is unnatural. Speaking is natural and not frustrating; when we speak‚ our words flow out easily. We do not think about the grammatical correctness of the utterances‚ nor do we think about mechanics. We do not repeat utterances over and over again to check for correctness or appropriateness. Most writing‚ on the contrary‚ does not flow out smoothly or spontaneously‚ we are constantly checking for correctness. In order to avoid that apathy
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KING OF FRANCE Bid farewell to your sisters. CORDELIA The jewels of our father‚ with wash’d eyes Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are; And like a sister am most loath to call Your faults as they are named. Use well our father: To your professed bosoms I commit him But yet‚ alas‚ stood I within his grace‚ I would prefer him to a better place. So‚ farewell to you both. REGAN Prescribe not us our duties. GONERIL Let your study Be to content your lord‚ who hath
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children are able to learn language so quickly because of an innate understanding of syntax rules (the rules for combining words in to sentences); he proposes that through the use an innate ‘language acquisition device’ language specific features of utterances (the surface structure of language) are translated into the innate deep structure of language with which children are born (Mitchell and Ziegler‚ 2012‚ p206). Chomsky built upon the idea for an innate mechanism in language development by highlighting
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Regino considers women that have illusions of engaging night flights are infidels because only wicked women who are infidels‚ are more likely to be infilled and seduced by the devil and therefore‚ having such phantasm. Also‚ Regino’s claim in the “Canon Episcopi” addresses how condemned witches are for their pernicious deeds‚ and subsequently reinforces the hatred that people have towards witches. The following argument will both explain how Regino’s claim of witchcraft magnifies the accusation towards
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Learning is not viewed as an individual accomplishment but as something that is achieved collaboratively. Learners are expected to listen attentively to the teacher‚ to freely provide meanings they wish to express‚ to repeat target utterances without hesitation‚ to support fellow members of the community‚ to report deep inner feelings and frustrations as well as joy and pleasure‚ and to become counselors to other learners. CLL has been used in larger schools classes where special grouping
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. . ....... 4 2. The stages of language acquisition .... ...... .. 5 2.1. The prelinguistic stage . ......... ........... 7 2.2. Babbling ........ ........... 7 2.3. One-word utterances .. .... ........... 9 2.4. Two-word utterances .............. .. .... 10 2.5. Telegraphic speech ........ ... 13 2.6. Language learning during the pre-school period .. 16 3. The critical period ....... 17 4. The summary
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