June 19, 2005
Chapter 8.
Development of Pragmatics
Chapter Eight
Fact Formulators
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Brooke E. Parker
Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:16 pm
 Development of pragmatics involves more than learning how to apply linguistic items (syntactic structures, morphemes, phonemes) effectively.
We make adjustments in our speaking behavior according to our audience hundreds of times a day.
Another type of participant in speech situations is the over hearer. In many situations there are not only speakers and listeners, but also persons who are more-or-less listening.
Every child is more comfortable and talkative in certain settings than in others and may be apprehensive about new environments.
Children use objects in the setting to help them interpret speech. Up to about age seven children's dependence on visual surroundings is greater that that of adults.
We use the term function to refer to types of speech acts- informing, persuading, speech play, and metacommunication.
Chapter Eight
Word Wizards
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Mindy O'Malley
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:35pm
1. Pragmatics- The rules of social interaction within a community.
2. Speech Acts- Pragmatic units of discourse.
3. Illocutionary force- The subject matter for the study of pragmatics.
4. Indirect requests- Those that inquire into the other's willingness to do something.("Can you take the doll?")
5. Metalinguistic speech- Speech that calls attention to the forms of language.
Chapter Eight
Cyber Citer Summarizers
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Blaire E. Woodward
Friday, June 17, 2005 1:02 am
This chapter focuses more on the developments of patterns of speech rather than the development of the language system itself. The relationship between grammar and usage is very important. Speech acts, or pragmatic units of discourse, talk of putting things in order. Everything we say must be said in the right circumstances, to the right people, in the right setting, and in the appropriate sequence. Culture also has a lot to do with how pragmatics are built into our languages. Things that are done in our culture greatly differ in some areas in other countries. Children are more aware of these things than we think and can identify things such as sex stereotypes. In the later part of the chapter, the functions of communication are discussed. We use language in four ways: informing, persuading, play, and metacommunication.
Chapter Eight
Quiz Questors
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Melinda O'Malley
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:27pm
1. True or False:
Children learn most of the rules of grammar in a matter of months.
ANSWER: True
2. The Development of pragmatics involves which linguistic items?
- syntactic structures, morphemes & semantics
- syntactic structures, morphemes & phonemes
- syntactic structures, morphemes & illocutionary force
- syntactic structures, morphemes & framing
ANSWER: B
3. Which author wrote the book "How to Do Things with Words" that discussed speech
acts?
- Roger Brown
- Lois Bloom
- J. L. Austin
- Jerome Bruner
ANSWER: C
4. According to the text, which of the following is NOT included in communicative
functions?
- informing
- persuading
- paralanguage
- speech play
- metacommunication
ANSWER: C
5. True or False:
Pragmatics is the area in which adults can most aid the development of children's
speech.
ANSWER: True
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