Thursday, 20 October 2016

A2 Language term one test



1.       A question and answer or statement and response are an example of adjacency pairs.

2.       When someone is talking and the other person in the conversation says “yeah” to show they are listening or understanding, this is called back channelling.  
                                                      
3.       Latched talk is when a conversation is flowing between both participants in the conversation.

4.       Observer’s paradox occurs when the investigator is the cause for behaviour change in the investigation.

5.       All investigation data needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable.

6.       Context marks are rewarded in A03.

7.       GRAPE stands for: Genre, Reception, Purpose, Audience and Expectations.

8.       Meanings and Representations need to be used when analysing texts.

9.       Two terms form the framework lexis are lexical field, connotations.

10.   Deborah Tannen’s theory was the difference model.  

11.   Three feature of the deficit model are tag questions, empty adjectives and hedges.

12.   “Your genes don’t determine your jean” Cameron said this.

13.   Trudgills NORMS research was carried out in Norwich.

14.   In the Martha’s Vineyard study the locals showed covert prestige.  

15.   In the more expensive store in Labovs theory the rhotic R sound was over pronounced more.

16.   When children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns it called overgeneralisation. 

17.   How many morphemes are in the following quote? “now you can’t exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you just get some help” 15 

18.   The stage after the two word stage is called telegraphic. 

19.   Halliday’s function for having your needs met is instrumental. 

20.   Deb Roy did research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify the utterances around the word that is about to be learnt.

Thursday, 6 October 2016

Genie Documentary



Genie documentary

What theories are mentioned?
When is the critical period of language development and who suggested it was before puberty?
What is the linguistic conclusion?
Was what happened to Genie ethical?
What theorists support this?



  • She was a 15 year old girl, who had been kept in social isolation for 13 years, when she was released she looked like a 6 year old girl.
  • She was mistreated- left in darkness, there was no toys in the house, no sign of a child living there.
  • She was in nappies, couldn’t walk, and couldn’t talk.
  • Her father lost his mother and this is when the strange behaviour towards genie occurred.
  • Its suggested that language cannot be learnt after puberty, at the age she was found she would have been post puberty.
  • To start with she was able to learn single words but shortly after she stopped learning.
  • She wasn’t able to but words together to make a sentence.
  • “language is words, structure and grammar”
  • The left part of the brain is where learning language comes from but this part of her brain wasn’t stimulated therefore she was unable to learn and didn’t develop the capacity for language.