Exam 10: Language in Context

In people suffering from autism,it is common for them to

The statement "Can you pass the salt?" is an example of a __________ speech act.

Although it is difficult to precisely map linguistic functions to specific hemispheres,in general it can be said that the left hemisphere

__________ refer to any of five basic categories of speech,analyzed in terms of the purposes accomplished by the given act.

__________ refers to the study of how people use language,emphasizing the contexts in which language is used,as well as the nonverbal communication that augments verbal communication.

Many adults have difficulty learning a new language.Which of the following is most likely the reason for this difficulty?

When a person learns two different languages at the same time,this is called

The statement "Do you have the time?" is an example of a __________ speech act.

This type of aphasia,due to damage in a specific area of the brain,is evident by a person's production of agrammatical speech (e.g. ,dingo … loving … ESP … daughter).

Explain the importance of speech acts and the contribution they make to everyday conversations.What would happen if these were no longer part of our "language"?

This type of aphasia is evident by a person's difficulty in retrieving words that correspond to specific objects.

Ann said "this court is now in session." This is an example of which type of speech act?

Take a few slips of the tongue (or generate your own)and provided examples of how the errors occur at different levels of linguistic processing (i.e. ,acoustical level).What do slips of the tongue tell us about how we process linguistic information?

Kutas and Hillyard used __________ to detect differences in processing of expected versus anomalous sentences.

To express the phrase "people read," a well-known sociologist wrote instead,"The individual member of the social community often receives information via visual,symbolic channels." This long sentence illustrates a violation of the maxim of

According to Grice (1967),the maxim of __________ refers to the expectation that a person's contribution to a conversation avoid obscure expressions,vague utterances,and purposeful obfuscation of the point.

This general term indicates that there is an impairment in language functioning due to some damage to the brain (e.g. ,lesions).

Identify the tenor and the vehicle from the following: Shakespeare in one of his plays wrote "all the world is a stage." The tenor is ___ and the vehicle is ___.

__________ refer(s)to inadvertent errors in what is said,usually as a result of articulatory or semantic confusion of phonemes,morphemes,or even words.

Imagine a world in which men had women's conversational style and women had men's (remember Deborah Tannen's work).In what way would such a world differ from ours? Be sure to trace the differences between the worlds back to Tannen's gender conversational styles.