LIN204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pragmatics
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Chapter 1 introduction: focal knowledge: perform actions (even forming sentences) without thinking of them this requires a knowledge of terminology used to think and talk about the use, tacit knowledge: describe to others how to do something, phrases: meaningful groupings of words (humans remember meaningful groups of things/words better than random elements, grammatical rules are not laws; they are hypotheses (imperfect and incomplete, phonology: how a phrase is pronounced, syntax: sentence structure, semantics: what a sentence means and whether it makes sense, pragmatics: how social structure influences the way a sentence is interpreted, grammar: a linguistic system that exists in the mind of a speaker; the knowledge" of a language; a description of the language system; an ideal set of rules, descriptive rules: how the grammatical system operates, rules that are same for all dialects of the language, prescriptive rules (or traditional grammar): govern the standard canadian.
