LING 3P90 Lecture 5: Lecture #5.0 (Part 2) 02:25:2016
18 Apr 2016
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Stylistic variation: modifications in politeness , intimacy, linguistic code, based on age, status, familiarity, cognitive level, linguistic level and shared past experience of listener. Collect multiple samples, look for appropriateness of: style (formality, politeness, vocabulary, utterance length, topic choice. Speakers should make novel contributions to the conversation. Analyze the language sample for: empty phrases, indefinite terms and nonspecific nouns, deictic terms; perspective of the speaker (here, there, this, paraphrases, repetition, personal value judgements, conjunctions used alone. In the language sample look for: frequency of pronoun use; makes their language more difficult to understand, ambiguous referents, frequency with which conjunctions are used. The ability to mark old and new information: initial mention: Beginning of the utterance: in the language sample, look for. Opening a conversation: gain attention, greet, and clearly state topic of conversation, analysis. How successful is child is at getting conversation to proceed. Children with li have less success with the conversation to keep going.
