GE 3 PURPOSIVE

COMMUNICATION
LIFE GABRIEL F. OSUMO, MED-LT, LPT
 COURSE
DESCRIPTION
Purposive Communication is a three-unit course that develops the students’
communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness
through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating
effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context
through writing, speaking and presenting to different audiences and for various
purposes.
PRESENTATION OF
CLASS SYLLABUS
 OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
 Demonstrate an understanding of the key ideas in language and communication, and
 Relate your personal experience with the input presented.
 WHAT IS
 LANGUAGE?
Together with the creation of human life is the creation of a beautiful and dynamic human
capacity.
 Reflect on the state of emotions.
 Only human beings are truly capable of producing language.
Linguists agree that a language can only be called a language if it has a system of rules:

 Syntax – refers to the formation of sentences and the associated grammatical rules (Foorman et al., 2016). "Syntax
skills help us understand how sentences work—the meanings behind word order, structure, and punctuation. It is
also addressed as grammar.

 Phonetics – According to Ladefoged (2023), it studies speech sounds and their physiological production and
acoustic qualities. It deals with the configurations of the vocal tract used to produce speech sounds (articulatory
phonetics), the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics), and the manner of combining sounds to
make syllables, words, and sentences (linguistic phonetics).

 Phonology – Phonology is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages. Put more
formally, phonology is the study of the categorical organization of speech sounds in languages, how speech sounds
are organized in the mind and used to convey meaning.
 Lexicon – also known as vocabulary

 Morpheme- is a short segment of language that meets three essential criteria: 1. It is a word or a part of a word with
meaning. 2. It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful segments without changing its meaning or leaving a
meaningless remainder.
 Morphology – is the study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguistic study today. The term
morphology is Greek and is a makeup of morph- meaning 'shape, form,' and -ology, which means 'the study of
something.’
 Pragmatics - is an essential branch of linguistics in the English language. It helps us look beyond the literal meaning
of words and utterances and allows us to focus on how meaning is constructed in specific contexts. When we
communicate with other people, there is a constant negotiation of meaning between the listener and the
speaker. Pragmatics looks at this negotiation and aims to understand what people mean when they communicate
with each other.
 Speech community – they can understand one another because they belong to the same community;
people share the same rules in the language system.
 A group of people who share rules for conducting and interpreting at least one variety of a language or
dialect. The term can be applied to a neighbourhood, a city, a region or a nation. We all belong to at least
one speech community.

 Language acquisition – while growing up, people acquire the languages used by those in the community.
The process by which humans acquire the ability to comprehend and produce language, either as their first
or second (third, etc.) language.

 Mother tongue – the languages acquired growing up and referred to as first languages.
 Second languages – people later discover that other languages are needed for various reasons.

 Language learning- learning these languages by studying formally in school or informally.

 Language contact - occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence
each other.

 Language change - Every language has a history, and, as in the rest of human culture, changes are
constantly taking place in the course of the learned transmission of a language from one generation to
another. This is just part of the difference between human culture and animal behaviour. Languages change
in all their aspects, pronunciation, word forms, syntax, and word meanings (semantic change). These
changes are primarily gradual, becoming noticeable only cumulatively throughout several generations.