LING 300 Lecture 10: LING300 Discourse
30 Dec 2017
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What is discourse: interaction : language use in context, language structure beyond sentence : how do utterances in an interaction fit together, representation : conventional ways of talking that create and are created by conventional ways of thinking. Interpreter"s role as gatekeepers: control/evaluation of participation of non-english speakers, non english speaking patients can"t ask questions because interpreter doesn"t translate them unless he deems them relevant. Education: classroom 3 part sequence , teacher initiation, student response, teacher comment/feedback, same sequence for interviews. Interviewer and teacher is responsible for picking topics, filling silences and feedback. Wolfram (1998: linguistic inferiority principle, speech of a socially subordinate group will always be interpreted as inadequate by comparison w/ socially dominant group, cultural and linguistic differences come to be evaluated as language deficit. Denial strategies: act-denial (didn"t do it, control-denial (didn"t do it on purpose, goal-denial (didn"t say that in order to ) also denial of responsibility.
