Language Varieties and Textual Properties: A Deep Dive

Posted by on Jan 8, 2025 in Other civil servant exams | 0 comments

Cultural Varieties and Linguistic Registers

Diastratic Varieties

Diastratic varieties involve factors such as age, sex, economic status, education, and profession. These factors are classified into physical and social:

  • Physical factors include varieties occasioned by differences in sex or age. Many of these differences reflect the social role played by the speakers of these groups and their role in society. Children, youth, adults, men, and women are distinguished by their physical traits.
  • Socio-cultural
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Language Learning Theories and Communicative Approaches

Posted by on Jan 7, 2025 in Other civil servant exams | 0 comments

Level 1 Theory of Language:

  • Four dimensions: grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competence.
  • Chomsky calls this linguistic competence.
  • Understanding the social context in which communication takes place: relationships, communicative purpose, etc.
  • Interpretation of individual message elements in terms of their interconnectedness and how meaning is represented in relation to the entire discourse or text.
  • Coping strategies that communicators employ to initiate, terminate, maintain, repair,
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