Language use, role and context in a five-year-old

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Martlew ◽  
Kevin Connolly ◽  
Christine McCleod

ABSTRACTTo explore the relationship of language use and speech adaptation to role and context the spontaneous speech of a boy aged 5; 6 was recorded in three different situations: playing alone, playing with a friend of the same age, and playing with his mother. Several analyses were made of the speech transcripts to examine the relationship between context and language use. The nature of play episodes was also investigated. The findings suggest that role play has an important function in the development of a child's ability to communicate effectively, and that a child's awareness of his own role and the expectations he has concerning social interactions lead to modification in language use.

2021 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 11048
Author(s):  
Lyubov Drotyanko ◽  
Julia Kharchenko ◽  
Sergej Kharchenko ◽  
Oleg Kolomiets

The analysis of the phenomenon of “random” and the principle of the relationship of random phenomena in social reality in the conditions of its instability has been conducted. On this basis, the key task was the conceptualization of the random phenomena in the scales of typology of fundamental and social interactions. It has been confirmed that the concept of “random” in terms of instability is more effectively described through ontological, phenomenological, transcendental and functional approaches and in the context of environmental position. A probability principle was applied when describing the randomness of abstract values. It has been proved that even minor aberrations at one or another point of space at different systemic levels of the material world can profoundly change the metric properties of systems, cause their instability. The results of the research confirmed that the unstable social system does not return to the state of equilibrium from which it has came out for different reasons, but continuously it moves away from it or makes unacceptably large fluctuations around it. And functional dependence between random phenomena and quantities under conditions of social instability is possible as stability of a different kind.


Author(s):  
Gunnar Bergh ◽  
Sölve Ohlander

General-purpose dictionaries may be assumed to reflect the core vocabulary of current language use. This implies that subsequent editions of a desk dictionary should mirror lexical changes in the general language. These include cases where special-language words have become so familiar to the general public that they may also be regarded as part of general language. This is the perspective of the present study on English football vocabulary, where a set of well-known football words – dribble, offside, etc. – are investigated as to their representation in five editions of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1911–2011), and in four of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (1948–1995). Two other dictionaries are also consulted: the Oxford Dictionary of English (2010) and – for first occurrences of the words studied – the Oxford English Dictionary. It is shown that, over the past hundred years, football vocabulary has gradually, at an accelerating pace, become more mainstream, as demonstrated by the growth of such vocabulary (e.g. striker, yellow card) in subsequent dictionary editions. Yet, some football terms make an esoteric impression, e.g. nutmeg ‘play the ball through the opponent’s legs’. Interestingly, such words also tend to be included in present-day dictionaries. Thus, football language is in a state of constant flux, responding to developments in and around the game. This is reflected in the dictionaries studied. In conclusion, due to the status and media coverage of the “people’s game” today, English general-purpose dictionaries have increasingly come to recognize much of its vocabulary as part of general language.


Author(s):  
Svetlana Zemicheva

The study is performed with the aim of reconstructing the worldview of the informant – a traditional folk culture representative, the application of a cognitive-discursive approach to linguistic analysis of transcribed discourse of spontaneous speech determines its novelty and relevance. The reliability of the results is ensured with a considerable amount of speech material (more than 300 utterances). The particular attention is given to evaluative contexts, the analysis of which resulted in reconstruction of the value aspect of the speaker's worldview. It was established that in the informant's speech both universal and specific characteristics of the concepts "Laughter" and "Crying" are manifested. As universal characteristics, the relationship of the emotive and perceptual components in the structure of the studied concepts is determined, the prevalence of negative emotions over positive nominations, the inclusion of these concepts in virtue oppositions (i.e. "us" – "them") is established. The features of the traditional folk worldview were reconstructed, including value of the family, attention to the material side of life, comprehension of animals as creatures of a lower layer in comparison with humans. The following personal characteristics of the informant are revealed: a high level of speech culture and communicative competence, vagueness, self-irony, the desire to harmonize communication.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mildin J. Retutas

Social interaction creates a vital source of opportunities to learn Mathematics and opportunities for students to talk about their own thinking, and this talk encourages reflection. A study was organized to find out the relationship between the social interaction and the performance of third-year students in geometry. Specifically, the study sought to determine their levels of accidental, repeated, regular, and regulated social interactions; students’ academic performance in geometry; and the relationship between students’ levels of social interaction and their performance in Geometry. The study used the descriptive-correlation method involving 39 students as respondents, and complete enumeration sampling design was used. The descriptive used for social interactions were outstanding, very satisfactory, satisfactory, poor and very poor while for the performance were very high, high, moderate, low and very low. The results showed no significant relationship with the social interaction, while the students’ performance in geometry was very satisfactory. The study concludes that the social interaction has no influence on the performance of students in geometry. The study recommends further study shall be made on the relationship of the students’ performances when clustered according to the different levels of social interaction so that appropriate intervention can be made easily.Keywords—Mathematics Education, social interaction, performance, third year students, geometry, descriptive-correlation method, Davao City, Philippines


2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mubaligh

Language is an arbitrary code system having close relationship with the ideology, because in any use of the language is ideological. According to linguists language is ideology. The relationship between language and ideology is in its language use and materializing the language in ideology. Words used and the meaning coming up from the words show someone’s position in a certain social class. Language becomes a battle site for many groups and class who take great effort to instill its belief and perceiving. In addition, the relationship of language and ideology can also be seen from its use not only as a means of communication but also language as a tool to influence, change and dominate other people so that the reader or audience will receive and justify the messages, ideas, and thought delivered, even to believe and follow it.


1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Brinton ◽  
Martin Fujiki

This article provides an introduction to the clinical forum on the relationship of language impairment, social skills, and socioemotional behavior. We introduce the following issues: (a) the influence of language impairment on the social interactions of children, (b) the association between language and challenging behavior, and (c) the relationship between language impairment, social problems, and psychiatric impairment.


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