Language in Context
What is the name of the field that studies language in context?
Pragmatics.
What is the word for any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that forms a unified whole?
A text.
What is a clause?
A subject + predicate.
An expression of the relationships between participants, processes, and circumstances.
A core unit of grammar.
A thought.
What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit of meaning
What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit of sound that creates meaningful contrasts.
What is the difference between locutionary force and illocutionary force?
Locutionary force is the literal meaning of the utterance.
Illocutionary force refers to the speaker's intention.
What is the word for the process of meaning-making and interaction in writing or speech?
Discourse
What kind of clause is a dependent clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb?
Adverbial clause.
How many morphemes in this word: ANTIRACISTS
How many phonemes in this word: phoneme
5
/f/ + /o/ + /n/ + /i/ + /m/
How do you know if an utterance is a 'constative utterance'?
It describes reality. You can fact-check it.
What is the word for a key feature of text that structures the order of ideas and how this order expresses the relationships between ideas?
Coherence
What kind of clause gives more information about a noun?
Relative clause.
needs to be two complete words joined together...
blackbird, oatmeal, birdhouse
What are considered "active articulators" in human speech production?
Lips and tongue.
What are Grice's Maxims?
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
What is the word for the part of speech that signals relationships between sections of discourse. They can join ideas together.
Conjunctions.
What is the difference between a clause and a sentence?
A clause is a grammatical unit of both spoken and written language.
A sentence is a low-level discourse unit of written language.
A sentence has at least one clause. A clause does not have sentences in it.
What is the difference between content words and function words?
Function words are closed-category words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions.
What is the difference between segmentals and suprasegmentals?
Segmentals are the smallest phonetic sounds.
Suprasegmentals are features of language like stress, rhythm, and intonation.
What is one way to teach speech acts?
Role play
Situational Judgments
Discourse Completion Tests
What is one way to teach language with a "discourse perspective"?
Keep activities as natural as you can.
Use natural dialogues from media or corpora.
Write realistic texts like e-mails, cover letters.
Use real media and internet materials for listening.
What is one way to teach clauses?
SVOCA game
Guessing game (I'm thinking of someone who...)
Chain writing
What is a collocation?
A pair of words that tend to occur together in speech and/or writing.
e.g., pay tribute
What is the purpose of "English as a Lingua Franca" (ELF)?
ELF is focused on intercultural communication among speakers for whom English is an additional language