This lesson contains 33 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
Items in this lesson
Study of Language week 3
Slide 1 - Slide
recap week 2
chapter 6: morphology
chapter 9: semantics
Slide 2 - Slide
Study of language; week 3
Pragmatics (ch. 10) & Discourse analysis (ch. 11)
Slide 3 - Slide
That annoying woman kept trying to hit me.
Look at the use of "ing" in this sentence. They are what kind of morphemes?
A
derivational & inflectional
B
inflectional & derivational
C
both derivational
D
both inflectional
Slide 4 - Quiz
This morning our faithful car started with a loud bang.
Which is NOT a (one) lexical morpheme?
A
morning
B
faithful
C
start
D
bang
Slide 5 - Quiz
lexical relations (ch. 9)
Synonyms
Antonyms: (non-)gradable
Reversives
Hyponyms / Prototypes
Metonymy
Collocation
Homophones
Homonyms
Polysemy
Slide 6 - Slide
hyponym
co-hyponyms
proto-type
2 or more examples of a kind of...
the "best" hyponym
a kind of
a banana is a ...... of fruit
pineapple, orange,
cherry, kiwi
apple
Slide 7 - Drag question
saw (tool)
saw (past tense of see)
homonyms
polysemous
homophones
foot (of the page)
foot (of person)
there
their
Slide 8 - Drag question
chapter 10
Pragmatics
Slide 9 - Slide
Learning aims:
You know that communication always takes place in a context, which can affect understanding of meaning.
You know that both speaker and listener need to put in effort to understand meaning.
You understand terminology concerning pragmatics and can apply this knowledge to examples.
Slide 10 - Slide
Pragmatics: how do we make sense of what is being said?
Physical/linguistic context.
Deixis
reference: inference & anaphora
presupposition
Pragmatic markers
positive & negative face
(in)direct speech acts
Slide 11 - Slide
The meaning of the word "awesome" can depend on...
A
the physical context
B
the linguistic context
C
the co-text
D
all of these
Slide 12 - Quiz
this quote makes clever use of ....
A
person deixis
B
spatial deixis
C
temporal deixis
Slide 13 - Quiz
Slide 14 - Video
The misunderstanding in this clip comes from an incorrect. ...
A
anaphora
B
deixis
C
presupposition
D
context
Slide 15 - Quiz
In the following sentence, which antecedent does the word "she" refer to? The girl hit the woman with a shopping bag, but when the police arrived she had left the scene.
A
the girl
B
the woman
C
not clear
Slide 16 - Quiz
You are at a friend's house and you are hungry. How can you get something to eat using an indirect speech act?
Slide 17 - Mind map
The following can be perceived as:
A
positive face (belonging) - face saving (indirect)
B
negative face (independence) -face saving (indirect)
C
positive face (belonging) - face threatening (direct)
-
D
negative face (independence) -face threatening (direct)
-
Slide 18 - Quiz
Look at the sentence: which presupposition(s) can you make?
Why did you not bring your girl-friend to the party?
Slide 19 - Mind map
Learning aims achieved?
You know that communication always takes place in a context, which can affect understanding of meaning.
You know that both speaker and listener need to put in effort to understand meaning.
You understand terminology concerning pragmatics and can apply this knowledge to examples.
Slide 20 - Slide
chapter 11
Discourse analysis
Slide 21 - Slide
Slide 22 - Video
Learning aims:
You understand some basic principles of conversational interaction:
that people try to "make sense".
that a conversation/story has a (logical) structure
that there are "rules" in a conversation, that participants try to stick to
Slide 23 - Slide
(mis)communication
Conversation structure
cohesion & coherence
conversation principles
turn-taking
(filled) pauses
adjacency pairs
insertion sequences
the co-operative principle
maxims & hedges
implicatures
background knowledge
schemas & scripts
Slide 24 - Slide
We can make sense of this story mainly because of the use of....
A
cohesion
(cohesive ties)
B
coherence
C
cohension and coherence
Slide 25 - Quiz
completion point
filled pause
adjency pair
I really like him because he......... er is a really nice .... you know... guy
Hello! - Hi there!
And what do you think?
So, we went home.
Thanks for your help. - You're welcome
Slide 26 - Drag question
Hi Ben, where is Sue?
who do you mean?
Isn't your sister called Sue?
No, her name is Paula. Sue is my cousin.
So I meant Paula.
She's at home.
A3
A1
Q2
Q3
Q1
A2
Slide 27 - Drag question
Hedges are used by speakers to show that they try to follow "the rules" in a conversation. Match the hedges to the rule they are trying to stick to.
maxim of quality
maxim of quantity
maxim of relation
maxim of manner
I am not sure if this all makes sense, but...
To cut a long story short, ...
By the way, ...
As far as I know, ...
Slide 28 - Drag question
Consider the conversation: Which implicature do you need to understand the respons?
Slide 29 - Mind map
Slide 30 - Slide
We would normally understand what was meant, because we have....
A
a schema
B
a script
Slide 31 - Quiz
Learning aims achieved?
You understand some basic principles of conversational interaction:
that people try to "make sense".
that a conversation/story has a (logical) structure
that there are "rules" in a conversation, that participants try to stick to
Slide 32 - Slide
Next week
explanation for your chapters of choice (see #OO)
week 2.4: study chapter 17 (language history and change)