PHYS 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spoken Language, Pragmatics, Infinitive
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One group may use it"s i, while others may use it"s me: descriptive i. People who use ain"t speak incorrectly, not using the formal and correct conjunctions: descriptive i. Incorrect speakers end sentences with prepositions and should be avoided at all costs in formal styles: prescriptive i. Informal speakers may use between you and i, while in more formal styles, between you and me is preferred. Dialect: the speech of a particular geographical area. Speech is more basic than writing: archeological evidence, writing is a later historical development than spoken language, writing does not exist everywhere that spoken language does i. ii. iii. There are many communities in the world where written form language is not used. Among 7000 languages in the world today, an estimated 3900 are unwritten. No naturally occurring society uses only a written language with no spoken form: writing must be taught, whereas spoken language is acquired naturally ii.
