Transcripts
English as a Global Language
CLA
English as a Spoken Language
100

What is a Transcript? 

a written out form of a verbal communication.

100

Who is the main linguist who studied this and has clear opinions and views on how language is used.

David Crystal

100

who came up with the 5 stages of CLA

David Crystal

100

witch one of Grice's Maxims means to be focused and relevant to the conversation?

Maxim of Relation

200

what are Fillers?

An often used word that's used to to fill time and give the speaker thinking time, for example 'um', 'right', 'well', 'you know'.

200

true/false:

written language is much easier to understand particular meanings behind words than spoken language.

false

200

What stage occurs at ages 3+

Complex Stage

200

what is the difference between between standard and nonstandard english.

standard english is "proper" english, what english should be spoken like with all the rules applied as non-standard english is what we tend to use when we speak. this is the difference between "dave and i" and "me and dave".

300

what do these signs represent in a transcript:

 (3)

 //

______  (underlined words)

(3) - three second pause

// - someone interrupted the speaker

______  (underlined words) - emotion and emphasis was put into the word when spoken

300

A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different is known as?

Lingua franca

300

What stage is happening when two or more words are being used together

Telegraphic Stage

300

medical terms that mainly only doctors know is an example of?

Jargon 

400

List 5 non-fluency features 

-Ellipsis 

-Elision 

-Liaison 

-Pauses 

-Voiced Pause 

-Fillers 

-Repetition 

-False Start 

-Overlap 

-Backtracking 

-Non-standard english

400

What is the difference between creole and pidgin

A Creole is a fully developed language unlike Pidgin as that is a arises when two people who speak different languages communicate limitedly.

400

List David Crystals Stages from youngest to oldest

-Prelinguistic Stage

-Holophrastic Stage

-Two Word Stage

-Telegraphic Stage

-Complex Stage

-Adolescent Stage

400

what is sociolect

the dialect of a specific social class

500

How two different people use language in there own way can affect their relationship. why?

if two people use language in different ways it could have a negative effect as it is easy to misinterpret the meaning of what the person is saying. 

Any right answer accepted

500

Drawl Kachru’s Circles


500

list the four theories and their theorists 

  • Chomsky’s Nativist Theory
  • Skinner’s Behaviorist Theory
  • Vygotsky’s Interactionist Theory
  • Piaget’s cognitive theory
500

list 5 of Halliday's 7 functions

-Regulatory 

-Heuristic 

-Personal 

-Instrumental 

-Imaginative 

-Interactional 

-Representational