For most of us, an average day is filled with phatic communication and we never even notice it. In fact, spending 24 hours without any form of this communication would probably seem very foreign and unnatural. Imagine spending an entire day without making small talk with your family, answering...
Speaking, writing and reading are integral to everyday life, where language is the primary tool for expression and communication. Studying how people use language – what words and phrases they unconsciously choose and combine – can help us better understand ourselves and why we behave the way w...
第一章 What is language?1)human speech 2)the ability to communicate by this means 3)a system of vocal sounds and combinations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed, used for the expression or communication of thoughts and feelings 4)the written representation of such a system.Design ...
You can define it, for example, as 'imaginative' writing in the sense of fiction - writing which is not literally true.Seventeenth-century English literatureincludes Shakespeare, Webster, Marvell and Milton; but it also stretches to the essays ofFrancis Bacon, the sermons ofJohn Donne,Bunyan's ...
Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and performative. According to Wang Gang (1988,p.11), language has three main functions: a tool of communication, a tool whereby people learn about the world, and a tool by which people ...