ANT253H1 Chapter 4: ANT253-chaptor-4-notes

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT253H1
• Professor: Marcel Danesi

Document Summary

Internal structures of language pliable entities that respond to external social situations. Main source of establishing, maintaining, defining and cueing social relations . so basically it looks at the ways in which language is (or can be) used. The choice of words and types of structures, registers, and styles that are used in specific situations usually depend. The expressions which were used in each case aren"t inter changeable . the way he said goodbye to his teacher wouldn"t be the same as saying good bye to a peer. This kind of knowledge is different from the knowledge word formation or sentence structure these examples show communicative competence. Communicative competence is a pragmatic form of competence. It is usually the one that guides our linguistic competence in actual use of language . study of communicative competence falls under pragmatic. It is the branch of linguistics which deals with these aspects of form and meaning that vary depending on the situations and social variables.