This document discusses key concepts in linguistics that help define language and its use for communication. It outlines six main concepts: use, usage, correctness, appropriacy, signification, and value. Use refers to applying linguistic knowledge to communicate, while usage involves knowing linguistic rules without active communication. Correctness means speaking without errors, and appropriacy means speaking appropriately based on context. Signification is a word's meaning according to grammar rules, and value is a word's meaning for communication purposes. Understanding these concepts helps with effectively learning and teaching language.
This document discusses key concepts in linguistics that help define language and its use for communication. It outlines six main concepts: use, usage, correctness, appropriacy, signification, and value. Use refers to applying linguistic knowledge to communicate, while usage involves knowing linguistic rules without active communication. Correctness means speaking without errors, and appropriacy means speaking appropriately based on context. Signification is a word's meaning according to grammar rules, and value is a word's meaning for communication purposes. Understanding these concepts helps with effectively learning and teaching language.
This document discusses key concepts in linguistics that help define language and its use for communication. It outlines six main concepts: use, usage, correctness, appropriacy, signification, and value. Use refers to applying linguistic knowledge to communicate, while usage involves knowing linguistic rules without active communication. Correctness means speaking without errors, and appropriacy means speaking appropriately based on context. Signification is a word's meaning according to grammar rules, and value is a word's meaning for communication purposes. Understanding these concepts helps with effectively learning and teaching language.
Appropriacy: speak correctly depending the context
you have : Relationship between speakers.
Signification: The meaning of a single word
Value: the meaning of the word that gives
communication Unit 1: Usage and Use The language is a method of human communication when speaking or writing, and it could be defined in many ways through history. Many people have been studying the language, and also they have been defining it to understand it until they reach a language teaching. Thus, according to all those linguistics, we could separate the language in too many parts for being studied, and we could get some definitions such as Use, Usage, Signification, Value, Correctness, and Appropriacy. If we need to define them, we can say this: 1) Use: It's when a person uses his knowledge of linguistic rules to communicate with others. For example, when he wants to put in practice the vocabulary he learned in the school when buying a hamburger. 2) Usage: It's when a person knows about linguistic rules without trying to communicate with others (grammar takes place in this definition). For example, when certifications evaluate grammar in the exam. 3) Correctness: It's the way a person speaks or writes correctly; in other words, without making a lot of linguistic mistakes (it is divided into descriptive and prescriptive). 4) Appropriacy: It's the way a person speaks correctly according to the context around him; for instance, when speaking formally and politely with a teacher and informally with your friends. 5) Signification: The meaning of a word per grammatical rules. 6) Value: The meaning of the words according to communicative purposes. All the words have different definitions but those are part of a language when it is studied because with them we can recognize easily the part of the language we want to study; for instance, if we want to know about English vocabulary that we can use when buying something in a mall, we need to realize that we're studying the Value of the word and the Use at the same time; on the other hand, if we want to study the vocabulary and we want to know where to place it in a sentence, we would be studying the Signification and the Usage. We need to know that language is always learned at the very beginning, but there will be a moment where it will be taught; that moment is called 'Language teaching', and it is understood as teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language according to the form, phonology, function, meaning, register and appropriacy of the words and sentences. Lecturers take place at this moment where teaching a foreign language because they need to have strategies to be used when explaining something to the student. Therefore, the better a lecturer knows about his language, the better he can teach to his students. For example, when a teacher is showing vocabulary about greetings and farewells to his students, he needs to know that the point he is teaching is about appropriacy, and for that reason, the strategy he has to use is an activity where the student might use a greeting or a farewell according to different contexts. In conclusion, Use, Usage, Signification, Value, Correctness, and appropriacy are words that linguistics had been studying through history for understanding a language until they correctly arrive at language teaching. Also, the knowledge of these words made easier the way we can learn and study a foreign language, besides they give meaning to every word in a sentence. Therefore, they will help lecturers to create appropriate activities when teaching the language and, in the case of the students, they help them to understand easily the subject they are reviewing. Finally, as we can see, it is an advantage to know these parts of the language if we want to reach a good language teaching.