The Mental Process of Speech Comprehension

1. MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA E KO MULYONO PRAGMATICS THE MENTAL PROCESS OF SPEECH COMPREHENSION LIBRARY

2. @echo Inner & Visual Structure Proposition Constituents as Psychological Reality Strategies Comprehending a Speech Ambiguity Storage Memory Inner & Visual Structure Man and the old woman still can play tennis Interpretation : The man is as old as the woman. Only the woman who is old whereas the man is not old as the woman. 2. Proposition 3 . Constituents as Psychological Reality Constituents is a conceptually coherent whole. Cutting the group of words will affect our comprehension. stored in memory is not the words that regardless of the constituents, but the unity of the meaning of each constituent. 4. Strategies Comprehending a Speech Example : He bought a pair of horse shoes He bought a pair of alligator shoes “horse shoes” is a shoe which is worn by the horse while “alligator” is a shoe which is made from alligator leather. Non-Literal Sentence Processing Metaphor is a word that expresses the equation something with something else even though the two are not the same. e.g. It’s raining cats and dogs. We use strategies syntactic to understand an utterance The word “person” can be syntactically collocate with old, big, stupid, etc. After we are identify first word from a constituent which we are heard, our mental process  will start to look for others word which is correspond with the first word in that constituent. we also can use semantic strategy to understand an utterance If in a discourse we found word such as” we, they, or he”, we must look for antecedent for that word. For example: yesterday, I went to river with Luha and Nina. Suddenly, we looked a big snake. MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA