Linguistics 101 Homework #4

Pragmatics

Make brief notes about:

p. 300, #5 – Deixis

a. yes, they & your (2)

b. no

c. no

d. yes, that & me and it

e. yes, another (another to what?) and now (what time does the sentence refer to)

f.  no

g. yes, here (home, business hotel room?), Problem (hardware, program…?), and there (office, company, technician’s home?)

p. 301, #10 : Transcribe a sentence you hear

1. What time are you working tomorrow?  [ wʌt taɪm ɑr yu wɜr kɪŋ təˈmɔr oʊ ]

ii. because of the word “tomorrow” I was able to conclude the speaker wanted information about a specific day

iii. without the word “tomorrow” I could’ve interpreted it as any day of the week and without the word “working”  I might not understood what the speaker was referring to.

p. 302, #14: Be Brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity)

Grices statement violated the maximum of quantity which states to either make your contribution as informative as is require or not to make your contribution more informative than is required. Her statement “be brief” was more than enough to get her point across.

p. 303, #18: Fouting Maxims

i. He uses maxim of relevance.

ii. He’s avoiding being straightforward, instead he deters from the question asked by pointing out a good aspect of the movie rather than just stating his dislike for it.

p. 306, #33: Speech Acts

i. This sentence is an assertion in speech act

ii. Could either mean that its warm outside compared to how cold it is inside or that its a very warm day.

iii. Convey the difference in temperature

Provide information about the weather

iv. directly, it is conveyed directly and literally

p. 307, #37: Speech Acts (Promise vs Threat)

The listener believes that the speaker wants something done.

The listener is able to do that thing.

The listener has no choice but to do it. (?)

It has not already been done (or it could be done again).

p. 308, #40: Performatives

1. promise is a performance verb because it commits the speaker to an action

b. suggest , no it conveys an idea thought but action is not assured

c. convince, action verb because it commits the listener to an action

d. warn, action verb because it conveys information

e. incite , no it is more of a feeling than action verb

f. forbid, performance verb demands an action

g. inspire , no because an action is not assured

h. amuse is not a performance verb because its a state of being it does not request for any action/ “performance” by the listener

i. order, is a performance verb because it demands an action

j. provoke, no action is demanded or requested

 

Language Variation

Do all of:

p. 444, #14 – Identify the level of linguistic structure where the variation occurs.

a. phonetic

b. syntactic

c .phonological

d. semantic

e. morphological

f. phonetic

p. 445, #16 – Natural, Some, Non-Native

Make brief notes about:

a. non-native, has fallen

b. natural

c. some , cleaning

d. some

e. some

f. non-native, I never

g. some

h. non-native

i. non-native, I want you to go home

j. natural

k. some

l. non-native

m. some

n. some

o. some

p. 446, #17 – Vocabulary variation

a. bucket

b. bag

c. curtains

d. soda

e. fireflies

f. in line

g. clean it up

h. you guys

i. a quarter ‘till 5

p. 447, #26 – Examples of variation

b. “like” “dude”

c. yolo, totes

d. spanglish

p. 450, #37 – Quizzes

The quiz I took labeled me in the region I have always lived in southern california

Language & Culture

Make brief notes about:

p. 479

#1

politeness strategies, culturally determined.

speaker roles, depending on who you are chatting with.

Turn-taking rules, time you wait to begin speaking or respond after another person is finished speaking.

#2.

It differs because social competence can come from the community of speakers you belong to, and linguistic competence can come from what we learn for example in school while growing up.

#3.

1.May I please use the restroom? Yes you may

2. Do you know where the library is? Yes its on the left hand side/ no I do not

3. When is the test? The test is next week

4. How was your day at work? It was fine

5. Can you help me with these boxes? Yes of course

p. 480, #15

-assertiveness, less turn taking and more statements than questions

p. 481, #19

a. get me more paper

b. be a doll and grab me some more paper

c. you wouldn’t happen to know where the rest of the printing paper went would you?

d. how do we run out of paper so fast?

p. 482, #28.

etic: we ran to each other and embraced joyfully

emic: two girls ran and hugged

etic: creamy buttermilk pancakes with a hot vanilla sot latte, while I was having a phone conversation rearranging appointments and thinking about my exam Wednesday

emic: girl eating and dinking coffee talking on the phone

etic: entered the class joyfully as always, sporting his well put together outfit and began to organize his lecture for the day

emic: stepped into the class and waited for the students to arrive

Cory Stapleton
Giovanna Alvarado
Keana Sabin
Michelle Zavestoski
Steve Juarez
Linguistics 101
Homework #4

Summary:
Language is extremely dynamic. It is constantly changing and adapting. The ways in which language changes relates to the environment in which the language is being used. The environment consists of many features, such as time, place, and the people who the language is being communicated with. All these things promote change within a language. Even though languages vary, when brought together they begin to take attributes from one another. Culture is equally important in relation to language. For the culture, the language used dictates what variations occur. If people are in a hurry, they may shorten their speech in order to reflect the speed in which they wish to transmit their message, like when someone says “lol” instead of actually laughing. The people in which the language is spoken to greatly effects the type of language used. If the community is populated by children, the words used would reflect the understanding the children have in order to make communication run smoothly and efficiently. The way in which we speak represents the language we are comfortable using in order to express ourselves, i.e. emic vs etic. Depending on R.A.C.E.S., we can have a general idea of an individual and their language. For example, a higher class individual may speak with more sophistication and in a dialect with more advanced words. A gay individual may speak differently than an individual who is straight, etc. Education plays a big part in this as well. The better the schooling and home environment, the better a language may be acquired and a particular dialect may be formed. Language is an enormous part of culture that brings everyone together and lets people share their ideas and thoughts, either positively or negatively.

Group’s Grouped Answers

pg. 444 #14
Ph/S/P/M/Sm/Ph
Pg. 445 #16
a. some
b. natural
c. some
d. natural
e. NN
f. some
g. natural
h. some
i. natural
j. natural
k. natural
l. NN
m. natural
n. some
o. NN
Pg. 446 #17
(A) Bucket
(A) Bag
(B) Shades
(A) Soda
(A) Fireflies
(B) In line
(D) Clean it up
(A) You guys
(B) A quarter to 5

pg. 479
Some competencies part of communicative competence are politeness, speaker roles, turn-taking roles and greetings.
2. Cultural Competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. While linguistic competence is the unconscious knowledge of grammar that allows a speaker to use and understand a language; performance is the ability to produce and comprehend sentences in a language. In certain cultures, it is rude to look at someone in the eye when you speak to them—different cultures have various rules of language, and some of it doesn’t need to be spoken.

3. An adjacency pair is a unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by two speakers. The turns are functionally related to each other in such a fashion that the first turn requires a certain type or range of types of second turn.

Book definition: Adjacency pairs are pairs of adjacent utterances produced by two different speakers, in which the first utterance provokes or requires the hearer to respond with the second utterance.

Five Adjacency Pairs in American English:
1. How are you today? I’m phenomenal.
2. Are you lost? Nope.
3. Hi! Welcome. Thank you.
4. What have you been up to? Nothing.
5. Can you point me in the direction of “__?” Sure.
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15. Power relationships are established in conversation when we try to persuade, educate, and convince other individuals or attempt to gain their attention or change their emotions. It refers to one speaker being more dominant or subservient. The power relationship expressed by language is defined by those who use language rather than by any inherent properties of a language. You can tell when someone is acquiescing within a conversation because they’ll just listen to the other –who’s exerting power– without any fight or struggle. These cues are socially determined because we learn how to exert power through interactions with others. Examples of when establishing power happens within a conversation: presenting a project, selling a product, arguing your point, displaying your love towards a person, coaching, work related situations, etc.
482
a) Etic: Students walked rapidly through the long pathway in between buildings, while one raised her hand to about an eye-level, palm out, fingers extended and moved it back and forth at the wrist, capturing the eye-sight of one another, joining in a same facial expression, showing their teeth to each other, followed by a raise of both of their arms, extended to one another and giving each other a slight squeeze.
Emic: Students rushed down the hall while one waved her hand capturing the attention of
another, joining each other with a smile on their faces followed by a hug.
b) What you ate, and did at lunch today.
Etic: The girl ventured in to the west commons market. It appears she took no thought into what to truly eat as she hastily grabbed a peanut butter sandwich, banana and milk to purchase. She rummaged through her purse for her wallet and card to make the purchase. She hurried to her next class.
Emic: Right before her next class, a girl bought a sandwich, banana and milk at the student store. After the purchase she hurried to class
c) how your instructor started class.
Etic: The young professor stood by the podium. Stared at the classroom clock and saw how much time there was before class started. He then took his final sip of coffee. It was time. He positioned himself away from the podium and to front of the whiteboard to gain the attention of his students and start the class.
Emic: The professor drank his coffee and soon enough started teaching his class.
28.
Passive observation: there aren’t any interviews under observation — but typically when the observation is concluded. An example could be that an observer follows a number of consumers in order to see how they use a given product. Subsequently the consumers are interviewed.
Participant observation: the interviewer takes part of the respondent’s doings with regards to a specific area/field and hereby the interviewer gains insight in the views of the respondents. An example could be that a company wishes to gain insight in how the employees use the common facilities. An interviewer is introduced in the company and shows up every morning for a week together with the employees. The interviewer is a part of the working day of the company and continuously interviews chosen employees about their activities/movements.

Book definition: Passive participation: a type of participant observation in which the researcher passively watches everyday life in the community without taking part.
Participant observation: a type of field work that consists of systematically observing within a community in order to understand how and why people do the things they do on a daily basis.
Page 557
10. No written records of Proto-Germanic exist, but the words and grammar of the language have been reconstructed by linguists.
14. Back in the days when Old English was spoken, the “k” in these sorts of words was not silent, so they would be pronounced as k’nife, k’night, and so on. This pronunciation was even common in the time of William Shakespeare! At some point, people decided that this sort of articulation was too cumbersome, so they stopped voicing the beginning consonant! The same thing happened with “gn” words such as gnome and gnarled. However, other Germanic languages such as German, Swedish, and Dutch kept the “k” and still pronounce it to this day.

Page 561
22. Swum-Swim, Drank-Drunk, Eat-Ate. These changes come about due to shifts in the functions of words. These words have been altered for the purpose of tense and time.
Analytic (language)—type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed sequences of these free morphemes. Grammatical relationships are often indicated by word order. Examples are Chinese and Vietnamese.

Page 562
29) i. Many words are new but derived from old words. New words have been created as a way to explain new ideas and concepts. Old words wouldn’t be able to capture the meaning of these new concepts.
ii. Many old words have be extended to encapsulate the new meanings they are being used towards.

Examples can come from Facebook: tagging, poking, etc. Writing on walls can be put to new use because that can be related to Facebook and talking directly to someone on their Facebook page.

Page 563
33. Poppycock means nonsense, and it comes from the mid 19th century: from Dutch dialect pappekak. cognate words: nonsense, rubbish, claptrap, balderdash, blather, moonshine, garbage.

Page 513
12) It is a threat to other languages that borrow words for their language and it loses the opportunity to be used. Therefore, it runs the risk of losing the language altogether. It is killing off the original language and bringing in outside words that diminish the language and alter the culture.
Page 516
22. We were able to understand most of the piece because it is written in words that are spelled like they sound, not how the appropriate spelling is, for example the first words, “Wans apan a taim” refers to “Once upon a time.” the spelling is off, but the pronunciation is good. It is in story telling form (once upon a time…the end).

23. We were not able to understand this text entirely, some words are regular English words, for example, “get many peoples.” Words are somewhat similar but there are lots of lost or dropped letters. Dees=these udder=under newa=new.

Page 517

29. We believe that it is a worth-while effort because that way the dialects can still be heard among people. By having a variety of languages and dialects, people are able to learn other languages and dialects even though they didn’t grow up with them. This is how culture stays alive. If everything is turned into something of a neutral language, then the uniqueness of the culture will diminish.

Giovanna Alvarado:
language variation:
14.
Phonological
Syntactic
Phonetic
Morphological
Morphological
Phonological
16.
Non-Native
Natural
Some
Natural
Some
Some
Natural
Some
Natural
Natural
Some
Non-Native
Some
Some
Non-Native
17.
(A) Bucket
(A) Bag
(B) Shades
(A) Soda
(A) Fireflies
(B) In line
(D) Clean it up
(A) You guys
(B) A quarter to 5
Page 479
some examples of things one must know to be communicatively competent in a certain language are politeness strategies, speaker roles, and greetings.
Cultural Competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.While linguistic competence is the unconscious knowledge of grammar that allows a speaker to use and understand a language; and performance is The ability to produce and comprehend sentences in a language.
An adjacency pair is a unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by two speakers. The turns are functionally related to each other in such a fashion that the first turn requires a certain type or range of types of second turn.
Examples:
What’s up? Not much.
How are you? Good.
How is it going? It’s going well.
What time is it? Three o’clock
Can you pass the salt? Of course
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Power relation refers to one speaker being more dominant or subservient. The power relationship expressed by language are defined by those who use language rather than by any inherent properties of a language. Someone that is acquiescing refers to a person that accepts something reluctantly but without protest. The cues are considered socially determined because people learn how to exert power only if they have interactions with others.
Page 482
28.
Etic: Students walked rapidly through the long pathway in between buildings, while one
raised her hand to about an eye-level, palm out, fingers extended and moved it back and forth at the wrist, capturing the eye-sight of one another, joining in a same facial expression, showing their teeth to each other, followed by a raise of both of their arms, extended to one another and giving each other a slight squeeze.
Emic: Students rushed down the hall while one waved her hand capturing the attention of
another, joining each other with a smile on their faces followed by a hug.
Etic: A young lady hurried to a sandwich instalacion, getting in back of a several other people ready to greet an older woman who soon asked her for her order, giving her the sandwich the young lady reached into her pocket to give the older lady some cash.
Emic: A teenager rushed to Subway, got in line and gave her order to an older lady, giving her the sandwich, the teenager took money from her pocket to pay her.
Etic: Walking rapidly into the big building, where students were already seated and waiting for her, she placed her bag stacked with books and papers on the central table, the professor raised her hand to about an eye-level, palm out, fingers extended and moved it back and forth at the wrist.
Emic: Rushing into the classroom, she pakced her purse filled with school materials on the center desk, the professor then looked towards the students and waved.
29.
Passive observation: there aren’t any interviews under observation — but typically when the observation is concluded. Ex. An example could be that an observer follows a number of consumers in order to see how they use a given product. Subsequently the consumers are interviewed.
Participant observation: the interviewer takes part of the respondent’s doings with regards to a specific area/field and hereby the interviewer gains insight in the views of the respondents. Ex. An example could be that a company wishes to gain insight in how the employees use the common facilities. An interviewer is introduced in the company and shows up every morning for a week together with the employees. The interviewer is a part of the working day of the company and continuously interviews chosen employees about their activities/movements.
Page 557
No written records of Proto-Germanic exist, but the words and grammar of the language have been reconstructed by linguists.
14.Back in the days when Old English was spoken, the “k” in these sorts of words was not silent, so
they would be pronounced as k’nife, k’night, and so on. This pronunciation was even common in the time of William Shakespeare! At some point, people decided that this sort of articulation was too cumbersome, so they stopped voicing the beginning consonant! The same thing happened with “gn” words such as gnome and gnarled. However, other Germanic languages such as German, Swedish, and Dutch kept the “k” and still pronounce it to this day.
Page 563
Poppycock means nonsense, and it comes from the mid 19th century: from Dutch dialect pappekak. cognate words: nonsense, rubbish, claptrap, balderdash, blather, moonshine, garbage
Page 513
I don’t believe so, because by the “borrowing” of words from other languages, the words keep on spreading among other countries and we end up with a bigger and better variety of words to use.
Page 516
I was able to understand the entire thing because it is just written in words that are spelled like they sound, not how the appropriate spelling is, for example the first words, “Wans apan a taim” refers to “Once upon a time.” the spelling is off, but the pronunciation is good.
I wasnt able to understand this text entirely, some words are regular English words, for example, “get many peoples,” the grammar is the only thing that is wrong, but I was able to figure some parts out.
Page 517
I do believe that it is a worth-while effort because that way the dialects can still be heard among people and it is completely awesome to have a variety of languages and dialects, that way people are able to learn other languages and dialects even though they didn’t grow up with them.

Keana Sabin:
pg. 479
Some competencies part of communicative competence are politeness, speaker roles, turn-taking roles and greetings.
Cultural competence differs from linguistic competence and performance because in order to achieve cultural competence an individual must interact with users of or familiar with that specific culture while linguistic competence is knowledge we ‘unconsciously’ gain about a language and the ability to virbually carry out that knowledge is performance.
Five Adjacency Pairs in American English:
1. How are you today? I’m phenomenal.
2. Are you lost? Nope.
3. Hi! Welcome. Thank you.
4. What have you been up to? Nothing.
5. Can you point me in the direction of “__?” Sure.
480
Power relationships are established in conversation when we try to persuade, educate, convince other individuals or attempt to gain their attention or change their emotions.
You can tell when someone is acquiescing within a conversation because they’ll just listen to the other –who’s exerting power– without any fight or struggle. These cues are socially determined because we learn how to exert power through interactions with others.
Examples of when establishing power happens within a conversation: presenting a project, selling a product, arguing your point, displaying your love towards a person, coaching…
482
a) How you and a friend greeted one another today.
Etic: The girl hurried her pace amongst other college students. Others look at her as she yelled in order to try and to gain the attention of her friend. She succeeded and they embraced it each other with a hug.
Emic: On campus, a girl caught the attention of her friend by yelling at her and greeted her with a hug.
b) What you ate, and did at lunch today.
Etic: The girl ventured in to the west commons market. It appears she took no thought into what to truly eat as she hastily grabbed a peanut butter sandwich, banana and milk to purchase. She rummaged through her purse for her wallet and card to make the purchase. She hurried to her next class.
Emic: Right before her next class, a girl bought a sandwich, banana and milk at the student store. After the purchase she hurried to class.
c) how your instructor started class.
Etic: The young professor stood by the podium. Stared at the classroom clock and saw how much time there was before class started. He then took his final sip of coffee. It was time. He positioned himself away from the podium and to front of the whiteboard to gain the attention of his students and start the class.
Emic: The professor drank his coffee and soon enough started teaching his class.
The difference between passive participation and participant observation is that participant observation requires the researcher to take part within a community to better observe and understand the actions of people within that community while passive participation has a similar concept except the researcher doesn’t actively engage themselves within their observation and watched afar.

Cory Stapleton:
14) P, S, Ph, M, Sm, Ph
16) a. non-native b. natural c. non-native d. some e. some f. some g. natural h. some i. non-native j. natural k. some l. non-native m. natural n. some o. some
17) a. bucket b. bag c. blinds/shades/curtains d. soda/soft drink e. fireflies f. in line g. straighten it up/clean it up h. you guys/you all i. a quarter to 5
1) Some aspects that enable a speaker to be competent in communication is sentence structure, understanding jokes and slang.
2) Cultural competence deals with the society you dwell in. Linguistic competence is an understanding of language itself and how to use it. Performance relates to how the speaker uses language and understands the language being used.
3) It is a process of communication in which one speaks and the other responds essentially.
a. Hey. Hey is for horses dumbass.
b. Whats up? The ceiling.
c. How are you? I am fine.
d. Are you alright? I’m totally cool.
15) This cues are socially determined. Some examples are elevated diction versus someone who uses a more colloquial form of language. Also by addressing the other in a negative manner is a form of exerting power.
28) Emic- A persons rushes toward another person with arms wide open.
Etic- The person is running towards their friend to hug them.
Emic- He reached into a big bag that was on his back and pulled out another bag that contained food. He held the food in front of his friend. The friend took the food and ate it.
Etic- The person brought a bagged lunch and offered some to their friend.
Emic- He walked in. Drew things on the wall. Turned and faced other faces and started making sounds.
Etic- He walked in, wrote on the board and greeted the class.
29) Passive observation, just watching. example: A person taking notes on the actions of another person. Participant observation, is where the observer is experiencing rather than merely watching. example: A person works alongside another person in order to gain an understanding of what is being done.
10) We know because linguistics researchers have traced the origins of languages like english to proto-Germanic.
14) Over time, there are shifts in language. Although we do not pronounce the k, languages like German still do.
22) Swum Swim Drank Drunk Eat Ate These changes come about due to shifts in the functions of words. These words have been altered for the purpose of tense and time.
29) i. Many words are new but derived from old words. New words have been created as a way to explain new ideas and concepts. Old words wouldn’t be able to capture the meaning of these new concepts.
ii. Many old words have be extended to encapsulate the new meanings they are being used towards.
Examples can come from Facebook: tagging, poking, etc. Writing on walls can be put to new use because that can be related to Facebook and talking directly to someone on their Facebook page.
pg 513-17
12) It is a threat to other languages that borrow words for their language loses the opportunity to be used and therefore runs the risk of losing it altogether.
22) I barely understand any of it. Ks are dropped words ending is S are now Zs You lost the O The Th is lost
23) Words are somewhat similar but there are lots of lost or dropped letters. Dees=these udder=under newa=new
29) It is important to keep and know our heritage but I believe it is a lost cause to revive a dead language. The language died for a reason. It is no longer as useful as it once was, so to revive a language would most likely be a waste of time.

Michelle Zavestoski:
pg. 444 #14
Ph/S/P/M/Sm/Ph
Pg. 445 #16
some
natural
some
natural
NN
some
natural
some
natural
natural
natural
NN
natural
some
NN
pg. 446 #17
A
A
A
A
A
B
D
A
B
Pg. 479
1. politeness, having understanding among one another with communication
2. in certain cultures, it is rude to look at someone in the eye when you speak to them—different cultures have various rules of language, and some of it doesn’t need to be spoken
3. Adjacency pairs are pairs of adjacent utterances produced by two different speakers, in which the first utterance provokes or requires the hearer to respond with the second utterance.
Ex: thank you—you’re welcome
This is delicious!—thank you!
You’re hot—I know. Lol
Pg. 480
15. power relationships can be established by those taking dominance in the conversation. We can use examples of work related situations, with our bosses talking over us.
Pg. 482
28. a. etic: two people approached each other at the mall and said hello, gave one another a friendly hug, and walked into the coffee shop.
emic: two friends met up, gave each other a hug, and went to get coffee.
b. etic: the sandwich was carefully taken out of the bag as to keep all the contents in place. A phone in one hand, and a sandwich in the other, I texted my mom asking what the evening nourishment would be when I come home from school.
Emic: I took my sandwich out of my bag and texted my mom asking her what we were having for dinner.
c. etic: the professor walked into the classroom and greeted everyone. He picked up the marker and stated writing something on the board. It was the agenda for the workflow of that day.
Emic: The teacher walked into class and said hello. He picked up a marker and wrote the agenda on the board.
29. Passive participation: a type of participant observation in which the researcher passively watches everyday life in the community without taking part.
Participant observation: a type of field work that consists of systematically observing within a community in order to understand how and why people do the things they do on a daily basis.

Steve Juarez
p. 557, #10
Linguists have researched this language and discovered this language was once spoken
#14 The K was initially pronounced long ago, but was dropped.
p. 561, #22—swim, swam/ hung, hanged
Analytic (language)—type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed sequences of these free morphemes. Grammatical relationships are often indicated by word order. Examples are Chinese and Vietnamese.
p. 562, #29–tagging, fb stalking, poking, why the hell can I only think of facebook, writing on walls…writing on walls can be put to new use because that can be related to facebook and talking to someone on their page.
p. 513, #12 Yes. It is killing off the original language and bringing in murrikan words that diminish the foreign language.
p. 516, #22 story telling, once upon a time…the end…etc.
#23…seems like there is a story line being established
p. 517, #29—yes it is a worthwhile effort. This is how culture stays alive. If everything is turned into something of a neutral language, then the uniqueness of the culture will diminish.

 

Cory Stapleton

Giovanna Alvarado

Keana Sabin

Michelle Zavestoski

Steve Juarez

Linguistics 101

Homework #4

Language is extremely dynamic. It is constantly changing and adapting. The ways in which language changes relates to the environment in which the language is being used. The environment consists of many features, such as time, place, and the people who the language is being communicated with. All these things promote change within a language. Even though languages vary, when brought together they begin to take attributes from one another. Culture is equally important in relation to language. For the culture, the language used dictates what variations occur. If people are in a hurry, they may shorten their speech in order to reflect the speed in which they wish to transmit their message, like when someone says “lol” instead of actually laughing. The people in which the language is spoken to greatly effects the type of language used. If the community is populated by children, the words used would reflect the understanding the children have in order to make communication run smoothly and efficiently. The way in which we speak represents the language we are comfortable using in order to express ourselves, i.e. emic vs etic. Depending on R.A.C.E.S., we can have a general idea of an individual and their language. For example, a higher class individual may speak with more sophistication and in a dialect with more advanced words. A gay individual may speak differently than an individual who is straight, etc. Education plays a big part in this as well. The better the schooling and home environment, the better a language may be acquired and a particular dialect may be formed. Language is an enormous part of culture that brings everyone together and lets people share their ideas and thoughts, either positively or negatively.

 

 

 

 

pg. 444 #14

Ph/S/P/M/Sm/Ph

Pg. 445 #16

1. some
2. natural
3. some
4. natural
5. NN
6. some
7. natural
8. some
9. natural
10. natural
11. natural
12. NN
13. natural
14. some
15. NN

Pg. 446 #17

(A) Bucket

(A) Bag

(B) Shades

(A) Soda

(A) Fireflies

(B) In line

(D) Clean it up

(A) You guys

(B) A quarter to 5

 

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1. Some competencies parts of communicative competence are politeness, speaker roles, turn-taking roles and greetings.

2. Cultural Competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. While linguistic competence is the unconscious knowledge of grammar that allows a speaker to use and understand a language; performance is the ability to produce and comprehend sentences in a language. In certain cultures, it is rude to look at someone in the eye when you speak to them—different cultures have various rules of language, and some of it doesn’t need to be spoken.

 

3. An adjacency pair is a unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by two speakers. The turns are functionally related to each other in such a fashion that the first turn requires a certain type or range of types of second turn.

 

Book definition: Adjacency pairs are pairs of adjacent utterances produced by two different speakers, in which the first utterance provokes or requires the hearer to respond with the second utterance.

 

Five Adjacency Pairs in American English:
1.         How are you today?                                       I’m phenomenal.
2.         Are you lost?                                                   Nope.
3.         Hi! Welcome.                                                  Thank you.
4.         What have you been up to?                            Nothing.
5.         Can you point me in the direction of “__?”    Sure.

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15. Power relationships are established in conversation when we try to persuade, educate, and convince other individuals or attempt to gain their attention or change their emotions. It refers to one speaker being more dominant or subservient. The power relationship expressed by language is defined by those who use language rather than by any inherent properties of a language. You can tell when someone is acquiescing within a conversation because they’ll just listen to the other –who’s exerting power– without any fight or struggle. These cues are socially determined because we learn how to exert power through interactions with others. Examples of when establishing power happens within a conversation: presenting a project, selling a product, arguing your point, displaying your love towards a person, coaching, work related situations, etc.

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a) Etic: Students walked rapidly through the long pathway in between buildings, while one raised her hand to about an eye-level, palm out, fingers extended and moved it back and forth at the wrist, capturing the eye-sight of one another, joining in a same facial expression, showing their teeth to each other, followed by a raise of both of their arms, extended to one another and giving each other a slight squeeze.

Emic: Students rushed down the hall while one waved her hand capturing the attention of

another, joining each other with a smile on their faces followed by a hug.

b) What you ate, and did at lunch today.
Etic:  The girl ventured in to the west commons market. It appears she took no thought into what to truly eat as she hastily grabbed a peanut butter sandwich, banana and milk to purchase. She rummaged through her purse for her wallet and card to make the purchase. She hurried to her next class.
Emic: Right before her next class, a girl bought a sandwich, banana and milk at the student store. After the purchase she hurried to class

c) how your instructor started class.
Etic: The young professor stood by the podium. Stared at the classroom clock and saw how much time there was before class started. He then took his final sip of coffee. It was time. He positioned himself away from the podium and to front of the whiteboard to gain the attention of his students and start the class.
Emic: The professor drank his coffee and soon enough started teaching his class.

Passive observation: there aren’t any interviews under observation — but typically when the observation is concluded. An example could be that an observer follows a number of consumers in order to see how they use a given product. Subsequently the consumers are interviewed.

Participant observation: the interviewer takes part of the respondent’s doings with regards to a specific area/field and hereby the interviewer gains insight in the views of the respondents.An example could be that a company wishes to gain insight in how the employees use the common facilities. An interviewer is introduced in the company and shows up every morning for a week together with the employees. The interviewer is a part of the working day of the company and continuously interviews chosen employees about their activities/movements.

 

Book definition: Passive participation: a type of participant observation in which the researcher passively watches everyday life in the community without taking part.

Participant observation: a type of field work that consists of systematically observing within a community in order to understand how and why people do the things they do on a daily basis.

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10. No written records of Proto-Germanic exist, but the words and grammar of the language have been reconstructed by linguists.

14.       Back in the days when Old English was spoken, the “k” in these sorts of words was not silent, so they would be pronounced as k’nife, k’night, and so on. This pronunciation was even common in the time of William Shakespeare! At some point, people decided that this sort of articulation was too cumbersome, so they stopped voicing the beginning consonant! The same thing happened with “gn” words such as gnome and gnarled. However, other Germanic languages such as German, Swedish, and Dutch kept the “k” and still pronounce it to this day.

 

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2. Swum-Swim, Drank-Drunk, Eat-Ate. These changes come about due to shifts in the functions of words. These words have been altered for the purpose of tense and time.

Analytic (language)—type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed sequences of these free morphemes. Grammatical relationships are often indicated by word order. Examples are Chinese and Vietnamese.

 

 

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29) i. Many words are new but derived from old words. New words have been created as a way to explain new ideas and concepts. Old words wouldn’t be able to capture the meaning of these new concepts.

ii. Many old words have been extended to encapsulate the new meanings they are being used towards.

 

Examples can come from Facebook: tagging, poking, etc. Writing on walls can be put to new use because that can be related to Facebook and talking directly to someone on their Facebook page.

 

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33. Poppycock means nonsense, and it comes from the mid-19th century: from Dutch dialect pappekak. cognate words: nonsense, rubbish, claptrap, balderdash, blather, moonshine, garbage.

 

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12) It is a threat to other languages that borrow words for their language and it loses the opportunity to be used. Therefore, it runs the risk of losing the language altogether. It is killing off the original language and bringing in outside words that diminish the language and alter the culture.

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2. We were able to understand most of the piece because it is written in words that are spelled like they sound, not how the appropriate spelling is, for example the first words, “Wans apan a taim” refers to “Once upon a time.” the spelling is off, but the pronunciation is good. It is in story telling form (once upon a time…the end).

 

3. We were not able to understand this text entirely; some words are regular English words, for example, “get many peoples.” Words are somewhat similar but there are lots of lost or dropped letters. Dees=these udder=under newa=new.

 

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29. We believe that it is a worth-while effort because that way the dialects can still be heard among people. By having a variety of languages and dialects, people are able to learn other languages and dialects even though they didn’t grow up with them. This is how culture stays alive. If everything is turned into something of a neutral language, then the uniqueness of the culture will diminish.