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ESL TExES 3
Concepts of Language Systems
Term | Definition |
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Phonology | the study of the system and patter of speech sounds of a language. |
Syntax | is the study of the way in which sentences are constructed and how sentences are related to each other. |
Lexicon | is one's mental list of the words in a language, including information about the meaning, grammatical function, pronunciation, etc. |
Morphology | the study of how words are structured and how they are put together from smaller parts. |
Semantics | includes synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and multiple-meaning words. |
Pragmatics | is the study of how the meaning conveyed by a word or sentence depends on the context in which it is used ( such as time, place, social relationship between speaker and hearer, and speaker's assumption about the hearer's beliefs). |
Discourse | is a continuous stretch of speech or written text, going beyond a sentence to express thought. For example: style in writing or rules of conversation. |