LIN204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7 : Linguistic System, Pragmatics, Mass Noun
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Chapter 2: dialect: a variant of a language spoken by a group of people sharing the same time or space (i. e. historical period, geographical or social environment, the standard dialect is usually what is taught to learners. Register: how casual or formal you"re being at any given time. But we all have different registers of formality. *sometimes the migration of large groups of people results in a regional dialect becoming a social dialect: style shifting (the speaker tries to produce speech closer to standard english) . Textual competence: knowledge about units of language larger than single sentences in speech or in writing, units such as stories, conversations, lectures, letters etc. iv). Pragmatic competence: knowledge of the use of language in social settings: global english (american english): the sum of various national and local varieties. Be sure that each contains only one unit of meaning ii). Try to state what the meaning or function of each unit is iii).
