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Introduction to Linguistics

Introduction to Linguistics. Laughter and Language A short intro to linguistics. Nathalie F. Martin. Introduction to Linguistics. LI 2013 Nathalie F. Martin. Linguists Don’t Necessarily Know Many Languages. Linguists do grammar differently. What Didja Ya Say?.

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Introduction to Linguistics

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  1. Introduction to Linguistics Laughter and Language A short intro to linguistics Nathalie F. Martin

  2. Introduction to Linguistics LI 2013 Nathalie F. Martin

  3. Linguists Don’t Necessarily Know Many Languages

  4. Linguists do grammar differently

  5. What Didja Ya Say? Linguists Study Language As It Is Spoken

  6. SpokenLanguage:Slang Linguists have the tools to study slang!

  7. Linguistics Study Communication

  8. This Also Covers Non-verbal communication

  9. Theoretical linguistics • Phonetics • Phonology • Morphology • Syntax • Semantics • Pragmatics (Language Sounds) (Language Sounds Interaction) (Word parts) (Arrangement of Words in a Sentence) (Word & sentence Meanings) (Language in Use)

  10. Phonetics (Language Sounds):Accents

  11. Phonetics (Language Sounds):Pronounciation

  12. Phonology:Analysis of sounds within a language

  13. Morphology (Word Parts):

  14. Syntax:Putting SpeechTogether Syntax: Arrangement of words in sentences (spoken language or written language)

  15. Semantics(Word Meanings):Manywords have more than one meaning

  16. Pragmatics (Language in use)

  17. Pragmatics (Language in use)

  18. Neuro linguistic Psycho linguistic • Theoretical Linguistics: • Phonetic • Phonology • Morphology • Syntax • Lexicology • Semantic Language policies and planning Socio linguistic Dialectology Ethno linguistic Applied Linguistics Etc.

  19. “What s‘it to me?” Branches and fields of linguistics: • Language acquisition • Psycholingusitics • Sociolinguistics • Differences between social classes, gender, age • Language preservation • Teaching • Translation Lexicographer: dictionaries Foreign language teacher Translator Missionary Speech therapist Actor

  20. Language Acquisition Once in Church, we asked the children in Sunday School to explain the meaning of complicated « christianees » words. When asked the meaning of « sinner » many of them replied: « More Sin » They applied the rule that is used for adjectives like « big » that becomes « bigger », « fat », that becomes « fatter ». They did not yet realize that « sin » is a noun and they did not understand the meaning of the word.

  21. Psycholinguistics:Language Anomalies

  22. Sociolinguistics:Language differences between Social Classes:

  23. Language Difference Between Different Generations

  24. Language Difference Between Genders

  25. Written or Spoken Language? Linguisticscanstudy: Texting and it’seffects on writtenlanguage

  26. Preservation of Native Languages

  27. Translation Linguists like the ones working for SIL or Wycliff need a good grasp of Linguistic Theory and Practice.

  28. Difficulties in translation

  29. DoubtfulTranslations

  30. Missionary Work Somewords of caution concerningmissionarywork:

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