Chapter 8.
The Gentleladies
Cyber Citer-Brittney Ramirez
2nd Cyber Citer- Bailey Brandon
Discussion Director-Mary Gillin
Fact Formulator- Jordan Burks
Quiz Questor- Kelsey Thompson
Word Wizard- Kristen Renner
Summary:
Chapter 8 talks about the study of language, the study of speech acts, and communicative functions.
Facts:
1. Language use is effected by participants, setting, sequence, conventions of culture.
2. Learning to adapt to one's speech is part of growing up.
3. The informing function is the easiest of all functions to emerge in a child at an early time.
4. Speech acts involve the study of relationships between language and situation.
5. language is a tool for getting things done
Questions:
1. What is the area in which adults can most aid development of children's
Speech?
Answer: pragmatics
2. T or F Learning to speak continues throughout one's life.
Answer: True
3. The study of ____(grammar, phonology) is incomplete without a focus on how these
forms are used in communicating.
Answer: language form
4. Learning to talk is a _________ ___________ between learning bits of grammar and
bits appropriate language.
Answer: Dynamic Interplay
5. What are the four functions described in chapter 8 that children learn to perform when they speak and listen?
- informing
- persuading
- play
- metacommunication
Words:
Metacommunuication is communication about communication
Speech acts are pragmatic units of discourse
Illocutionary force is a describing speech act in terms of the job it accomplishes
Metalinguistic speech- speech that calls attention to the forms of language
Morphemes- A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts.
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Author: Brittney Ramirez (bramire)
Date: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:05pm
Chapter 8
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