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Language acquisition definition
Language acquisition Language acquisition definition has always been on the ambitious intellectual horizon of Universal Grammar theorists. You can almost…
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Government and binding theory
Background of Government & Binding (GB) Government and binding theory has several predecessors and a successor is beginning to emerge…
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X-bar theory
X-bar theory Development theoretical within the grammar generative proposed by Noam Chomsky (1970) which consists in the X bar theory inclusion of categories of level means positioned between the categories minimum (the category…
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Types of phrases in english
What is a phrase? Generally speaking, a phrase can refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of…
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Phrase Structure Rules
Phrase Structure Rules Phrase structure rules are ways of describing a given syntax language and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar…
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The Theory of Relevance (Sperber and Wilson)
The Theory of Relevance (Sperber and Wilson) The theory of relevance is based on the dimensioning to one of Grice’s…
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Grice’s conversational maxims
Grice’s conversational maxims The British philosopher Herbert Paul Grice (1913-1988) helped give the language a pragmatic approach and proposed some…
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Examples of Speech acts/direct/indirect/classification
Speech acts Speech acts are statements that constitute actions. They correspond to the language in use, to the language in…
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Theory of speech acts
Theory of speech acts The theory of speech acts is one of the first theories proposed by pragmatics, through which…
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Pragmatic communication models
Pragmatics Pragmatics arises within the language, in Oxford. The starting point of the Pragmatics were two lectures given at the Harvard…
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