The ability to interpret messages and negotiate meaning within specific contexts.
Savignon
An interpersonal construct examined by means of overt performance of two or more people in the process of communication.
CALP
Context Reduced
Context
Embedded
Communicative capacity of language Focus on meaning Used for daily interpersonal exchanges
BICS
Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills
Grammatical Competence
Strategic Competence Verbal/nonverbal strategies to compensate for breakdowns due to performance variables or insufficient competence
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Discourse Competence
REMEMBER Sociolinguistic Locutionary act: Performance of an utterance Competence Grammatical Its cold in here. Competence Illocutionary act: Intended meaning [The windows is open. So I should close it.] Organizational Competence Pragmatic Competence Perlocutionary act: Consequences of the utterance (whether intended or not) [Someone closes the window.] Textual Illocutionary (Discourse) Competence Competence Language Competence
Language Competence
Strategic Competence
Psychophysiological Mechanisms
Context of Situation
Certain events happen Particular conditions change Control of events Setting rules Conveying facts and knowledge Representing reality as it is To establish & maintain contact Knowledge of slang, jargon, jokes To express feelings and emtions Seeking answers (usually in the form of questions) To create ideas and imaginations Going beyond the real world
Go out!
If its not cold, stay outside.
Notional-Functional syllabuses
Notion is referred both to abstract concepts such as existence, space, time, quantity and quality
Functions correspond to what we already talked about Language Functions i.e. instrumental, representational, etc.
Attention Getting Topic Nomination Topic Development Turn Taking Clarification Repair
Its the first rule that children learn. Speakers do it after securing hearers attention. Speakers do it after securing hearers attention.
Set of culturally oriented rules to communicate properly. Is usually manifested in forms of Heuristic functions. From indirect signals to outright corrections (strategic competence) They are effected through verbal and nonverbal signals.
Interruptions
Topic Termination
Its an art of finishing the conversation which is hard even for native speakers!
Be clear!
Naturally occuring discourses, usually written, across different language and cultures.
Sociopragmatics
Pragmalinguistics
e.g. American: What an unusual necklace. Its beautiful. Samoan: Please take it!
e.g. Tu and vous in French. In English theres only you for both formal and informal. But in French they use plural you to address an individual politely.
Girls produce more standard language than boys. Men Interrupt more than women. Men and women use different syntactic and phonological variants.
Sets of conventions for selecting words, phrases discourse, and nonverbal language in specified contexts.
ORATORICAL Style
The language of speaking for a large audience. There may be some interactions sometimes. DELIBERATIVE Style
The language of speaking for a larger audience in which the magnitude of the crowed doesnt let interaction.
CONSULTATIVE Style
A formal dialog with careful choice of words, such as a doctor-patient conversation. CASUAL Style
Language of friends, colleagues, and family members. Complete absence of social inhibitions usually between very close friends.
INTIMATE Style
Kinesics Artifacts
Kinesthetics
Eye Contact
Proxemics Olfactory