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Advanced English Grammar – E-notes no.2

(July 24 2017)

Last Monday, I have learned that .....

Language –

Is a system of arbitrary sounds and symbols used for human communication.

®     SYSTEM – system of sounds etc.; rules that we follow

®     ARBITRARY-  not planned or chosen; no particular connection

®     HUMAN COMMUNICATION- animals don’t use language. They communicate through their instincts

Grammars –

Ø  Linguistics competence

-          Unconscious  knowledge

Ø  Linguistics Performance

-          Observable used of language

·         Descriptive grammar

-          It tells or describe your basic linguistics knowledge

·         Prescriptive grammar

-          It says that the language has a correct usage

·         Universal grammar

-          All language are the same

( Noam Chomsky )

Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

-          a hypothesis, first advanced by Edward Sapir in 1929 and subsequently developed by Benjamin Whorf, that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience.

ü  Main theme of the movie ( ARRIVAL 1026 )

ü  Most popular

ü  Language directly influence our thoughts.

ü  Language directly determines our thoughts

HOPILANGUAGE

-          In the 1930s the linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf seized on these characteristics of the verbs of the Hopi language to illustrate the “Whorfian hypothesis”: language closely governs our experience of reality. The Hopi language frames the way in which the Hopi talk about their universe. The same holds true, in Whorf ’s view, for all individual languages and people.

            “You cannot think beyond your language” – Edward Sapir

Functional Grammar  (M.AK. Hulliday)

-          Study the function of word in a language

Ferdinand de Saussure

-          Father of modern linguistics

-          a Swiss linguist and semiotician. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century.

Pedagological Grammar

-          A pedagogic grammar is a description of how to use the grammar of a language to communicate, for people wanting to learn the target language. It can be compared with a reference grammar, which just describes the grammar of the language. Pedagogic grammars contain assumptions about how learners learn, follow certain linguistic theories in their descriptions, and are written for a specific target audience.

Grammaticality

-          Correctness of grammar in particular sentences

                         “ Colourless green ideas sleep furiously”

-          Not acceptable but grammatically correct

Acceptability

-          Structure of sentence is correct but not acceptable because it doesn’t make sense.

After the discussion Ms.Claire gave us the format for our Lesson Plan (Demo Teaching) and she instructed us to make our draft for our lesson plan and here it goes ......

- Components of a Language

Language - A system of arbitrary sounds and symbol used in human communication.

Components - Sentence Structure, Word Structure, Sound, Meaning : Semantic and Pragmatics

KINDS OF GRAMMAR

DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR - Describing Grammar

FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR - Function of a word in a sentence

PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR - Teaching of a grammar

UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR - All languages have common grammar - Noam Chomsky

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That is what on my notes for that day. I just simplified some of the terms since I have them on my notebook. Its kinda refreshing since Ma’am Claire tries to enlighten us again about Grammar since we forgot it somehow or some of us were really shy to answer her or afraid to commit mistake. Anyway, that’s our first day in her class which is productive since the reports were already distributed. Excited to have or experience this demo-teaching since it’s my dream to teach student but let’s see what will be the results.