Epistemologia

The brain is like a black-box; it is not easy to know what there is inside of it.

Language learning: when we use books, teachers and techniques to learn a language.

Language acquisition: it is the natural way to learn a language.

Levels of linguistic analysis of dialects:

1) Pronunciation..

2) Morphology.

3) Lexicology.

4) Grammar.

5) Semantics.

6) Non-verbal language.

Body language.

Chronomic.

Proxemics.

Objectics.

Tuesday, March 27th, 20012.

BASIC COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE

• Phonetic.

o Vowels.

o Consonants.

o Diphthongs.

o Intonation.

o Stress.

• Language disorder.

o Speech.

o Listening.

o Reading.

o Writing.

• Lexicology of English (Characterization).

• Terminology.

• Morphology (Morphemes). Teaches

Free morpheme Bound morpheme

• Grammar English.

o Kind of sentences.

• Language and gender.

• Sexism in language.

• Language and politics.

• Language and brain.

• Child language.

• Sociolinguistics.

o Social dialectic (register).

o Geographical dialects.

• Indigenize language.

• Non verbal language (Body language).

• Semantics (meaning of words) (theory of signs).

• Animal learning.

• Language learning.

• Pragmatic.

• Speech act theory.

• Phraseology.

• Differences between written and spoken English.

• Computational language.

Thursday, March 29th, 2012.

LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Phoneme Phonetic level Phonetics Phonetician

Phonological Phonology Phonologist

Morpheme Morphological Morphology Morphologist

Word Lexical Lexicology (Theory)

Lexicography (Material)

Phrase Phrase

Phrase logical Phraseology Phrase logist

Sentence Syntactical Syntax

Grammatical Grammar Grammarian

Seme (unidad de significado) Semantical Semantics Semanticist

Text Textual Textology

Text linguistics Text linguistic

Speech act Pragmatic pragmatics

“Language is a system of rules in my mind.” Ferdinadd’Saussure.

CONTEXT OF THE SITUATION INVOLVES

• Sex of speakers.

• Age of speakers.

• Education of speakers.

• Topic of conversation.

• Location.

• Regional variety of the speakers.

• Social variety (register).

• Cultural norms.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012. Teacher did not go to class.

Thursday, April 12th, 2012.

BASICS COMPONENT OF LANGUAGE

• Brain in language.

• Language acquisition.

• Child second language acquisition.

• Language learning.

• Foreign learning acquisition.

MEANING OF WORDS:

1) Dictionary meaning.

2) Referential meaning.

3) Contextual meaning.

4) Affective meaning.

5) Thematic meaning (a word has a meaning according to a discipline).

6) Chronological meaning.

7) Grammatical meaning.

8) Phonostatic meaning.

9) Political meaning.

10) Religious meaning.

11) Geographical meaning.

12) Nationality meaning.

13) Social class meaning.

14) Technical meaning.

15) Symbolic meaning.

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