Summary Language & Communication Chapters 1-4 (period 1)
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Course
Language and Communication
Institution
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU)
Book
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
This is a clear and structured summary of the first 4 chapters of the book 'Language and Linguistics', which covers the subjects: phonetics & phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It contains all the important key terms, definitions and models. By using my summary to study for th...
Language covers reading / writng / issening / sseaking
Language has so communicase meaning
Wor dwide 6909 anguages
3000 wishous a writng ssssem
Human anguage vs. non-human anguage
- Human communicatonn informaton besond tme and s ace
Shared insentona iss
- Non-human communicatonn using gessures in a sractca sense in a sartcu ar sisuaton
For sheir own goa s
Modularity Language is a modu ar ssssem
Evers modu ar is ressonsib e for sars of she anguage sroducton/serceston srocess
Discreteness Evers anguage has iss own ses of discrese uniss (morshemes/shonemes/words)
Whas is discrese in one anguage, does nos have so be in anosher
Productivity A anguages are sosenta s innnise s sroductve
One cou d a wass add anosher modiner
Arbitrariness No re aton besween sound and meaning of a word
Differens words/sounds in evers anguage (woof woof / mung mung)
Consttuency A ows for feeibi iss and ssrucsure
A ows for recursion
Variability Differences besween anguages and wishin anguages
Language use desends on sisuaton/serson/socia consees
Communication = The process of using symbols to exchange meaning
, Transactonal model of communicaton
Socia consees Phssica and ssscho ogica consees
Communicasor Co-creaton of Communicasor
meaning
Re atona consees Cu sura consess
Verbal communicaton = ru e governed ssssem of ssmbo s so share meaning
Basic functons of verba communicaton
- He ss so denne rea iss
- He ss so organize coms ee ideas and eeseriences
- He ss so shink
- He ss so shase atsudes abous she wor d
Forms of communicaton
- Insrasersona communicaton
- Insersersona communicaton
- Grous communicaton
- Pub ic communicaton
- Mass communicaton
Phonetcs = she branch of inguistcs shas dea s wish she sounds of sseech and sheir sroducton,
combinaton, descriston and resresensaton bs writen ssmbo s
Phonology = she branch of inguistcs shas dea s wish she dissributon and saterning of sseech
sounds in a anguage and wish she sacis ru es shas govern sronunciaton
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