PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Surface Roughness, Pragmatics
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Some language is private- for ourselves o: most language is directed at and around others, social activity, need to know the sound, words, sentence of language and principles of conversation. Conversation: pragmatics: knowing how to speak to whom, child, loved one, stranger, employer, enemy, expert, etc. o. This produces the sound of language (lips, lungs, tongue, etc. ) Smallest unit of sound recognized as separate in a given language (alphabet not the same) Do not correspond to letters of alphabet (more phonemes then letters) About 40 phonemes in english (other languages may have different numbers: morphemes. More than 80,000 morphemes for the average person. Rules for combining words together into meaningful phrases. How do you phrase, gives the meaning (ambiguity, the french bottle smells) Surface structure is how you phrase the sentence into meaningful units o: ambiguity- when the underlying proposition is not clear o, visiting relatives can be boring. e. g. smoking volcanoes can be dangerous.
