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Linguistic Unit
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Building blocks, the smallest unit of language and sound that build up into parts of words, and then parts of works form larger meaning through sentences
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Signs
(signifier/signified) |
**Ferdinand de Saussure
Not only physical, social abstract and imaginary world, but that language orders our experiences Signifier- the expression part Signified- concept of meaning |
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Iconic, Indexical, Arbitrary and Conventional signs
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-signs that look like their meaning
-signs with relation to the environment -signs where the expression of the concept show no relation to the meaning -have to be part of a certain community to understand |
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Social Networks
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*Coats and Milroy are important. It is the communication between people and how it effects your language
ex) people with lower socioeconomic statuses speak differently than those high class people |
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Open/closed networks
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In a closed network, everyone knows everyone. Typical in smaller communities. It an open network, you are the main connection between people, they do not know each other on their own. This is typical in large, urban communities.
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Multiplex and Uniplex Networks
Density |
Closed networks tend to me multiplex, connections with a person is multifaceted. Uniplex networks happen when the connection you have with someone is on a single basis
- the number of connections in a social network |
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Protolanguage
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*Halliday
A simple semiotic system with only two parts, meaning and expression. This is during infancy |
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Meaning potential
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Learning that language is not about rules, it is learning how to mean. A child must learn to take on the grammatical systems of language around him
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Microfunctions/Metafunctions
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Meta = adult language. These are language for constuing experience, language for enaction social relations and language for managing the flow of discourse
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Register and Dialect
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Register is a variation according to use
Dialect is variation according to user, regional or class difference within one particular language |
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Field, Tenor, Mode
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Topic (interview compared to speaking with your family
Relationship which influences what you're going to say Spoken/written |
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Grammatical voice
Middle, active and passive |
Middle doesn't always ask the question about who did it, the event just sort of happened
Active places the agent first, coalition forces bombed.. Passive is the goal, baghdad was bombed |
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Agent, process and goal
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External forces causing the process to happen
The verb, what is going on the outcome which was acted upon |
