Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What is languange
- Form
- Structure of the languange
- concerned with the shape of language
- system of rules and patterns
- interested in the individual sounds that
are possible in a language
- Function
- identifying patterns
- role of parts of a sentence
- content of the message is of primary importance, not the
form.
- Mentalist/Internal
- mind: refers to the more philosophical understanding
of how mental processes work.
- Generativists present a model of language which separates
language from other mental functions
- Mentalist investigations explore language through
two basic types of methodology
- psycholinguistic method
- argue that language knowledge is
automatic, operating without our
conscious control or awareness.
- philosophical method
- depends on logical arguments
regarding the nature of language
- Interactionist/External
- sees language as the same type of knowledge as other types of
knowledge, and mental processing as one process without special
distinctions
- Linguistics
- knowledge of language that we possess, whether we are
explicitly aware of it or not
- Metalinguistics
- knowledge that an individual has about the
knowledge of language
- Descriptive grammar
- set of grammar rules that we can
explicitly teach and learn.
- prescriptive grammar
- dictates what rules of language should be adhered,
regardless of what the speakers of the language may
actually do in natural language production
- Literacy
- literacy-related aspects of language such as spelling,
punctuation, writing and reading must be taught and
consciously learned.