Generic language use reveals domain differences in young children's expectations about animal and artifact categories

Amanda C. Brandone; Susan A. Gelman

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.09.002

Generic language use reveals domain differences in young children's expectations about animal and artifact categories

Cognitive Development ◽

10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.09.002 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 63-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Amanda C. Brandone ◽

Susan A. Gelman

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Generic Language ◽

Children’S Expectations ◽

Domain Differences

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Crisis and Language in Ray Bradbury’s The Last Night of the World

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Philologica ◽

10.2478/ausp-2021-0018 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 147-160

Author(s):

Zsuzsanna Ajtony

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Crisis Communication ◽

Language Use ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Verbal Interaction ◽

Negative Evaluation ◽

Critical Situation ◽

Crisis Situation ◽

The World ◽

Generic Language

Abstract Language use in social crisis situations is usually described as being highly ideological, and it exhibits features of affect involving the use of negative evaluation of the perceived social enemies. The present study aims to explore the characters’ language use in Ray Bradbury’s short story entitled The Last Night of the World from a pragma-stylistic perspective. The fictional dialogue that takes place between the two protagonists creates and reflects the dynamics between them, where the unspeakable is only inferred rather than communicated. The analysis reveals special features of verbal communication in a crisis situation, especially focusing on the lexical and morphosyntactic properties, as well as on the verbal interaction and cooperation between the characters revealing their alignment. The results of the analysis prove that the verbal and non-verbal communication between the protagonists do not show the features described in crisis communication; therefore, the text of the story can be interpreted as subverting the generic language use in a critical situation.

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Linguistic Competence in Aphasia

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac17.3.87 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 87-92

Author(s):

Leonard L. LaPointe

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Linguistic Competence ◽

Careful Study ◽

Feral Children ◽

Performance Factors ◽

Performance Loss ◽

Linguistic Rules ◽

Communication Goals ◽

Aphasia Treatment ◽

And Performance

Abstract Loss of implicit linguistic competence assumes a loss of linguistic rules, necessary linguistic computations, or representations. In aphasia, the inherent neurological damage is frequently assumed by some to be a loss of implicit linguistic competence that has damaged or wiped out neural centers or pathways that are necessary for maintenance of the language rules and representations needed to communicate. Not everyone agrees with this view of language use in aphasia. The measurement of implicit language competence, although apparently necessary and satisfying for theoretic linguistics, is complexly interwoven with performance factors. Transience, stimulability, and variability in aphasia language use provide evidence for an access deficit model that supports performance loss. Advances in understanding linguistic competence and performance may be informed by careful study of bilingual language acquisition and loss, the language of savants, the language of feral children, and advances in neuroimaging. Social models of aphasia treatment, coupled with an access deficit view of aphasia, can salve our restless minds and allow pursuit of maximum interactive communication goals even without a comfortable explanation of implicit linguistic competence in aphasia.

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