PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics
24 May 2016
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Example: help people with speech pathologies, problems with reading, learning: window on larger theoretical questions. Example: to explain nature of language and its acquisition: from an analytic view: to describe what is usually ignored regarding everyday use of language. To see how people co-construct meaning in their everyday lives. What implicit rules we use are often unexamined. The formal and the communicative are often presented as oppositions. Linguists: structure or mechanics definition: a system of symbols & rules for combining these symbols in a potentially infinite number of ways. Psycholinguists (cognitive psychology, neuro-linguistics): how people understand, produce, and acquire language. Sociolinguists /pragmatists: definition: coordination of meaning between one or more persons. A grammar is a systematic characterization of all the rules and principles that govern language. Five main levels of analysis recognized in linguistics: Phonetics/phonology: set of sounds and sound patterns a language makes use of. Example: the vowels in the words tin" and ten" are different phonemes.
