Critical Perspective on Language and Discourse
- 1. Name : Rasila Jambucha Roll no: 22 Paper: English language teaching Topic: critical perspective on language and discourse Submitted to: Smt.s.b.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University
- 2. Language - definition Discourse - definition The method of human communication either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structure and conventional way. System of thoughts composed of ideas, attitude, and courses of action, beliefs and practice they systematically construct the subject and the words of which they speak.
- 5. What is language? way of interacting with the people around us a system of communicating to communicate effectively, using gesture-body movement listening and speaking both important for communication to express inner thought and emotion it is not only content, it is also context
- 7. Function /importance of language language is not only a way to communicate, but also a way to live the culture where a language is spoken main goal of language teacher is to provide students with the tools to be effective communicators in the teaching language
- 8. Language as a symbol
- 9. grammar, pronunciation and sentence pattern also matters in language
- 10. language awareness operates on three distinctive levels: The cognitive level, referring to awareness of language pattern The affective level, with regards to forming attitudes The social level, which reference the improvement of learners effectiveness-raising, facilitates language
- 12. What is discourse? the study of the ways in which language is used in text and context study of language independently of the notion of the sentence it examining the relation between a text and the situation in which it occurs it also part of one type of communicative competence discourse competence: is generally the ability to understand and express oneself in a given language
- 13. Discourse can be defined in three ways
- 14. Discourse analysis interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are reproduced in text and talk Discourse analysis as a part of textual analysis:
- 16. Discourse analysts, interested in three question a. who wrote the notice and to whom? b. how do we know what it means? c. what factors played a role in this? interested in things “well-formed”
- 17. conclusion discourse and language transformation are ascribed to progress or the need to develop new or the need to develop new or more ”accurate” words to describe new discoveries, understandings, or areas of interest language and discourse are dissociated power and ideology and instead conceptualized as “natural” product of common sense usage or progress