Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Thursday, 2 March 2017
How 'like' is used
Ted Talk from Vera Regan, social linguist, on how different people use 'like' differently.
Thursday, 20 October 2016
A2 Language Terminology
- A 'question and answer' or 'statement and response' is known as adjacency pairs
- The term for say 'yeah' and uh-huh' while someone is peaking is called back channeling
- When talk flows swiftly from one turn to the next it is known as Latched talk
- When you affect the data you are studying bu investigating it it is called the observers paradox
- Your investigation needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable
- AO3 awards marks for context
- GRAPE stands for: Genre Reception Audience Purpose Expectations
- Your text needs to be analysed for meanings and representations
- High frequency lexis and syntax are both terms from the framework 'Lexis'
- Tannen's 3D theory is differences
- Less taboo language, hedges and more colour terms are all deficit features
- Cameron said "your genes don't determine you jeans"
- Trudgill did their NORMS research in Norwich
- The island locals in Martha's Vineyard showed covert prestige
- There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic R sound in more expensive stores in Labov's 'fourth floor' study
- Over generalisation is when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns
- There are 15 morphemes in this quote: "now you can't exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you need to get some help"
- The stage after the two-word stage is called the telegraphic stage
- Halliday's function for getting your needs met was instrumental
- Deb Roy did the research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify utterances around a word that is about to be learned
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Horizon Documentary ~ Why Do We Talk
- Language defines us as humans
- Speech distinguishes us from other animals
- Children learn with minimal effort
- How we learn to talk is a mystery
- Is it something we are born with or learn?
- We know little about where our language comes from
- Deb Roy~ turn his home into language laboratory called 'Speech home project', he filmed his son from aged 0-3 capturing how we learn to talk
- Parents unconsciously simplified speech ~ when parents language develop so does the childs ~ care givers language
- Children at 5 know 5000 words ~ adults speech 150000 words a day
- Humans speech with a voice box low in the throat, animals have a higher voice box ~ but animals can lower their voice box so must be related to the brain to the reason we speak
- Dr Kathy Price ~ highlighting key areas of the brain related to speech
- Baby's react to mothers voice in different ways to other voices
- Innate ability for language ~ born with it
- Noam Chompsky ~ language is innate and we all have L.A.D ~ we have the blue print of language but we need to be exposed to it early on ~ nature Vs nurture
- The forbidden experiment would give an answer ~ Child raised by wolves would give the answer ~ found the child was raised in a domestic environment
- Family who had speech issue (KE family), the issue wa.s found in chromosome 7 but no one knows where ~ named speech 1
- New unrelated child found a broken chromosome 7 ~ Fox-P-2 ~ shows language is innate
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