CSD-3366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: African American Vernacular English, Communicative Competence, Pragmatics
9 Feb 2017
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What is language: socially shared codes and symbols in a society. What is a dialect: subcategories of a parent language. What is communicative competence: the degree of success when communicating. What are the five steps of communication: concept established, encoding- message created, transmission- message passed on to another person, decoding- person creates meaning of thing communicated, concept received. What are the three main properties of language: a rule-governed code, a social tool. What are the three domains of language: form, content, and use. It means there are no comparative rules between dialects, that no one dialect is better than another. It means that each dialect has a different relative status to the ideal standard, value is pla(cid:272)ed o(cid:374) a perso(cid:374)"s diale(cid:272)t. What are the pragmatic rules for conversational interactions: sequential organization and coherence of the conversation, repairing errors in the conversation, the practice of roll skills. Ex: turn taking, establishing register, deciding who you are in the conversation.
