Public Speaking
What are the 3 main reasons why public speaking is important?
-To win over the crowd
-To motivate people
-To inform
Which are the modes of a language?
Speech, writing and singing
Chinese Mandarin
Describe the maxim of quality.
Be truthful.
What are the linguistic markers that link parts of the text together called?
Ties
What is the term for the relative highness or lowness of a person's voice?
-Volume
-Pitch
-Inflection
-Range
Pitch
Which branch of Linguistics focuses on how words and parts of words are structured?
Morphology
According to the Ethnologue: Languages of the World, how many living languages are there in the world?
6900 languages
Describe the maxim of relation.
Stay on topic; do not digress.
What's register?
Register often refers to the degree of formality of language, but in a more general sense it means the language used by a group of people who share similar work or interests, such as doctors or lawyers.
Communication is defined as...
-Exchange by words, letters or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions by conference or other means; conference; correspondence
-People e-mailing each other
-People talking on the phone
-People screaming ate each other
-All of the above
All of the above
How do humans communicate between each other?
By using language, gesture, art, dress, music.
What's a pidgin and give an example of a pidgin language.
A pidgin is a contact language.
When slaves were brought to Jamaica, for instance, many spoke different West African languages, and none spoke English – the language of their slave masters. This resulted in the creation of a pidgin, a second language that was based on the dominant language spoken in Jamaica, English, and that enabled minimal communication among slaves and their owners.
I premise to do that later... is:
-An assertive speech act
-A commissive speech act
A commissive speech act
What's genre?
Genre is a term used to classify types of spoken or written discourse. These are normally classified by content, language, purpose and form.
In receiving and perceiving a spoken message, which of the following occurs LAST?
-Understanding
-Interpretation
-Comprehension
-Reaction
Reaction
Define 'grammar'
The description of how humans form linguistic structures, from words up to the sentences.
List at least 4 branches of the Indo-European Languages.
Germanic
Italic
Celtic
Balto-Slavic
Hellenic
Indo-Iranian
Albanian
What are the four maxims of the Cooperation Principle?
Quantity
Quality
Relation
Manner
What are the types of cohesion?
Reference
Substitution
Ellipsis
Lexical Cohesion
Conjunction
In explaining an abstract idea or concept, which of the following elements would typically be presented FIRST?
-The concept's essential qualities, values or aspects
-An overall definition of the concept
-Examples of the concept's influence in human affairs
-The origin, sources and history of concept
An overall definition of the concept
Define 'pragmatics'
The study of how context, social and linguistics, affects language use.
How's English divided according to diachronic studies?
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Modern English
Contemporary English
What are the four felicity conditions in communication?
Propositional Content
Preparatory
Sincerity
Essential
Ellipsis is like Substitution except that it involves deleting information recoverable from some prior context rather than replacing the information with a word like do or so. For instance, in the example below, the speaker begins by mentioning that he thinks Oxford United has experienced one best thing:
Basically what I, I think the best thing that’s happened to Oxford United this season. Well there are two.