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chapter 1&2&3 the important question
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Chapter One:
1. Identify, discuss and illustrate “ term of address” , style shifting, paralanguage, language practices, discourse analysis, speech acts, referential function, phatic function, adjacency pairs, preferred response and dispreferred response, code switching, conversational analysis.
2. the notion of “face” as proposed by Goffman; elements of context that influence language; strategies of politeness; differences between language of men and women according to Lakoff; how do we interpret language according to anthropologists; what characterizes informal talk.
Chapter Two:
1. Discuss and illustrate the following terms: coinage, denotation, connotation, synonyms, antonyms, and genre.
2. Discuss Brian Street’s proposition on literacy practices; you should understand and be able to explain the semiotic approach and its perspective on the written language.
Chapter Three:
1. Discuss the following concepts: child directed speech (CDS), the cognitive perspective, emergent literacy, overextensions
2. Differentiate between the following: competence and performance; telegraphic and formulaic language; cognitive and social perspectives; logographs and pictographs
3. Discuss: how children learn to use English, how do children acquire their early words according to the cognitive approach, why do children make mistakes when they start to use grammatical inflections, the functions of CDs, the advantages of learning to read in an alphabetic or syllabic system and the critical age hypothesis; Kenner’s study, Gordon Wells proposition, Chomsky’s universal grammar principles
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