discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.
→ Reflect the use of the linguistic system itself
Sociolinguistic Competence
: the knowledge of the sociocultural rules of language and of discourse.
Strategic Competence
: the verbal and nonverbal communication strategies that may be called into action to compensate for breakdowns in communication due to p
(1973) 4 Stages of Second Language Development
1. Random Error(Presystematic): Vaguely aware that there is systematic order. Stage of experimentation and inaccurate guessing
2. Emergent: In consistency in linguistic production. Begin to internalize certain rules. ‘U-shaped learning’. Unable to correct errors when they are pointed out. Avoidance of structures and topics.
-A computational tool that produces
indices of the linguistic and discourse
representations of a text
-provide indices of such
cohesion characteristics
-contain a description of 62 indices
Easy ------------- Hard
Our thinking
Culture < Politics < Science
BUT!
Research Result
Science < Politics < Culture
Discourse as Communicative event
Discourse structure = communication
+ personal, social properties of hearer& speaker
Coherence sentence
Sentence structure
+ a textual dependence of syntax and semantics
-> depending on
our knowledge & beliefs
Comprehension
Personal models and differences
different interpretation of a news
But, thes
analysis based on age and gender
According to the graph (figure 1), it is clearly shown that females in the age range of 40 to 60 use gender neutrals term to the least whereas males in the age range of 40 to 60 are apt to use more neutral terms than non neutral terms, which contradicts the premise of our hypothesis. We tried to find a reason for this result; we found in one of our referenc