Exposition - What is Language PART 1.pptx

DESCRIPTION AND CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE AND ITS USAGES.

1. WHAT IS Language? Cyntia Abigail García Izaguirre 1723066 Andrés Ulises Ortega García 1730086 Group i36

2. Purpose Explain that language is much more than speech

3. What is lenguaje? The capacity to produce sounds that signify certain meanings and to understand or interpret the sounds produced by others. Language is the “Human essence” NOAM CHOMSKY

4. Linguistic knowledge

5. KNOWLEDGE OF THE sound sistem Part of knowing a language is knowing what sounds or signs are in that knowledge and what sounds are not If we really know a lenguaje, we know that …

6. KNOWLEDGE OF words Knowing a language means also knowing that certain sequences of sounds signify certain concepts or meanings . neko apple Japanese English Arbitrary Relation of Form and Meaning

7. This conventional and arbitrary relationship between the form (sounds) and meaning (concept) of a word is also true in sign languages.

8. THE CREATIVITY OF linguistic knowledge Knowing a language means being able to produce new sentences never spoken before and to understand sentences never heard before. Creativity is a universal property of human language. LEXIC

9. KNOWLEDGE OF SENTENCES AND NONSENTENCES Set of words. Well-formed sentence. Rules.

10. Ability to speak, understand and make judgements  reveals knowledfe of the rules Have the knowledge/inguistic competence Apply the knowledge/linguistic performance LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND performance

11. Activity: Things Mencion five things that you can… With those word: R ecognice when to use it Use it correctly Recognice when it is inaproppietly used. Spell it.

12. Bibliography Fromkin, V., Rodman, R. and Hyams, N. (2011) An Introduction to Language . 9th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.