Understanding Language Context, Formality, and Word Formation
Background and Context
A text’s context and situation significantly impact its meaning:
- Context: The linguistic environment surrounding each element of the text, including the words and expressions adjacent to it.
- Extra-linguistic situation: The environment surrounding the text when it occurs, encompassing the circumstances of its creation and reception.
The situation in which communication occurs also influences language varieties, known as registers.
Formal and Informal Language
Formal Language: Planned,
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Unit 12. Essential Morphosyntactic Elements in English. Basic Communicative Structures, Progressive Use of Grammar Categories to Improve Oral and Written Communicative Competence. 0. Introduction. The description of a language includes three components: phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Competent language users know how to pronounce words; they also know the grammatical rules which allow them to produce sentences, as well as words and how they operate. Current language techniques approach the teaching
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Text Properties: Adequacy, Coherence, and Cohesion
Sentences are connected in ordained sequences, paragraphs, making up a text or speech. This is language, the maximum unit of communication. Texts have three main properties: adequacy, coherence, and cohesion.
Adequacy
A text is an act of communication; its form and content should be adapted to the characteristics of the elements of the situation: who the sender and receiver are, the purpose, and the subject matter.
Coherence
The content of a text must
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Bullying in Primary Education
This essay deals with bullying, a real issue present in our daily lives, especially in Primary Education.
Framework and Legal Context
First, I will relate this issue to the legal framework. Secondly, I will discuss the symptoms and the impact of this problem in English lessons. After that, I will analyze different processes and activities to discuss and reduce this matter in class. Next, I will review the importance of having a secure and comfortable environment in English
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Unit 1: Language as Communication
Language as communication. Oral and written language. Factors which define a communicative situation: Sender, Receiver, Functionality, and Context.
This essay studies language as communication. The topic is divided into three main sections:
- The concept of language and its properties.
- The characteristics and differences between writing and speech.
- The ways in which communication occurs.
Additionally, this essay identifies the key factors affecting any communicative interaction
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Telegraphic Speech
Telegraphic speech: The final stage of language acquisition is the telegraphic stage. This stage is named as it is because it is similar to what is seen in a telegram; containing just enough information for the sentence to make sense. This stage contains many three and four word sentences. Sometime during this stage the child begins to see the links between words and objects, and therefore overgeneralization comes in. Some examples of sentences in the telegraphic stage are “Mummy
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