Sociolinguistics
A variety/dialect spoken and written in formal settings (= الفصحى)
Standard Language
What is psycholinguistics?
The study of the relationships between linguistic behaviour (linguistics) and psychological processes (psychology).
True or false:
Speakers from America speak differently from speakers from Britain.
True
How is globalization made possible?
Communication OR Mass Media
Semantics is _____
the field of linguistics concerned with the study of literal meaning in language.
What is a pidgin?
A language developed because of the need for communication between people who have no common language. It arises for economic reasons in a situation where the is a dominant language and another language.
Psycholinguistics focuses on how _____________.
language is learnt, stored and lost.
Second language learners sometimes have pronunciation difficulties, which is known as __________
phonetic realization
What is localization?
The process of adapting something (whether it was a product, a service, or a brand) to a specific, local culture or audience.
Pragmatics is ______
the study of how context affects meaning, such as how sentences are interpreted in certain situations.
Why did regional variation develop?
Regional Variation develops because people are separated by a common barrier like physical barriers, historical barriers, racial barriers, or religious barriers.
Broca's aphasia:
Good: __________
Affected: ________
Good: language comprehension
Affected: speech production
Paralinguistics is _____
the study of vocal and non-verbal signals beyond the basic verbal message or speech.
Interpretation is ___
is the process of expressing the meaning of spoken words or speech from one language into another.
Discourse Analysis is ____
the study of the ways in which language is used between people, both in written texts and spoken contexts.
List ALL Social Factors and Social Dimensions.
The participants, setting or social context of the interaction, topic, function
The social distance scale, status scale, formality scale.
Chomsky’s hypothesis is ___________
that there is an innate structures in our brains which allows us to organize the language we are exposed to at a young age.
True or false:
All cultures interpret non-verbal cues the same way, which can cause confusion when people of different backgrounds are trying to communicate.
False
Translate this sentence:
"I'm so tired. I need to take a fat nap."
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Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics are closely related since both are interested in _____
the interpretation of what people mean by what they say.