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SOCIOLINGUISTICS.

1.-what is sociolinguistics?
Is the study of the relationship between language and society.
2.- How can sociolinguistics help us?
Sociolinguistics can help us understand why we speak differently in various
social context, and help uncover the social relationship in a community.
3.- In what aspects the sociolinguistics are interested?
they are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social
context and they're concerned with identifying the social functions of
language and the ways it is used to convey social meanings.
4.- what is language?
Is a system of communication consisting of sound, words and grammar,
language is also used by people in a paticular country or type of work.
5.-what is society?
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making
decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be
done.
6.- what is dialect?
a form a language that people speak in a particular part of a country,
containing some different words and grammar.
7.- what are the problems that exist in sociolinguistics?
The social differentation of lenguage, the sociolinguistics aspects of
billingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistics situations, lenguage
engineering, national and standar lenguage, and their social functions.
8.- what is accent?
is a way of prnouncion a lenguage.
9.- what are the diferenses between the lenguage and dialect?
- A lenguage is bigger than dialect.
- more people speak a lenguage.
- a lenguage is the standard form.
-a lenguage is a correct form.
-dialects hace mutual intelligibility language do not.
-dialects are subsets of a language.
10.- can we change us accent?
Yes, we can. Accents are not fixed. Our accent change over time as our
needs change and as our sense of who we are changes and develops.

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

1.- what is psycholinguistics?


Is the study of mental faculties involved in the perception, production and
acquisition of language.
2.- what are the basic components of language?
-Semantics, the meanings of words and sentences.
-Syntax, the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence of phrase.
- phonology, the sound pattern of language.
-pragmatics, how language is used in a social context.
3.- what is language comprehension?
the ability to understand communication from others, such as speech,
written text, gestures, for sign language.
4.- what is language production?
is the production of spoken or written language.
5.- what is the language acquisition?
is the proces by wich humans acquire the capacity to perceive and
comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences
to communicate.
6.- what are the cognitive processes in psycholinguistics?
the cognitive processes make possible to generate a grammatical and
meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures, as well
as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances, words, text
7.- what are any other branches of psycholinguistics?
-language processing - reading, writing, speaking, listening and memory.[2]
-lexical storage and retrieval - how are words stored in our minds and then
used.
-language acquisition - how a first language is acquired by children.
-special circumstances - twins, deafness, blindness, dyslexia and brain
damage.
-the brain and language - unique to humans? evolution and part of the brain
concerned with language.
-second language acquisition and use - Bilingualism, how a second language
is learnt.

8.- What is Language Acquisition?


Language acquisition is just one strand of psycholinguistics which is all
about how people learn to speak and the mental processes involved. Are we
taught to speak by our parents, or are we born with knowledge in our brains
that help us to pick up language quickly? So really, it's a question of nature
vs. nurture.
9.- what cognitive processes are involved in the ordinary use of language?
-perception
-memory
-thinking
-learning
10.- where is psycholinguistics studied?
Psycholinguistics research is not limited to a particular rea in the world, but
there is more evidence of psycholinguistic study in the Western would due
to advanced science and technology.

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