AIN’T GRAMMAR WORKING FOR YOU ? Mr. William G. Banks B.A English Linguistics MLST Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Discourse Analysis PhD (candidate) Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Pragmatics (05/05/2014)
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AIN’T GRAMMAR WORKING FOR YOU ?
Mr. William G. Banks
B.A English LinguisticsMLST Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Discourse Analysis
PhD (candidate) Applied Linguistics/Syntax/Pragmatics (05/05/2014)
WHAT IS GRAMMAR?
Prescriptive Formal and Academic
Meticulous Mechanics
Correct & Incorrect Signatures
Speeches, and academic
Descriptive Casual Informal
Creative Mechanics
Relative and Flexible
Oral and novice writing
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CERTAIN THOUGHTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN THEIR ONE LANGUAGE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO LIVE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE…
Whorf-Sapir Theory
Can native Arab speakers understand the words?
GRAMMAR ARGUMENTS
Noam Chomsky PhD.
Structured or Uniformed
Phrasal Identification
Deep Layered
Universal
Ronald Langacker PhD.
Symbolic
Relative
Conceptualized
Ain’t no such thing as Universal Grammar
HOW D
O ARABS S
PEAK?
PRACTICAL AWARENESS VS. ACTUAL AWARENESS
مصري (al-walad miSri الولد
The boy is Egyptian.
مصر في الولد wulida l-walad fi .ولدmiSr)
The boy was born in Egypt.
مدرسة بنتعمي . bint 3ammi mudarrisa)
Daughter my Uncle teacher.
My cousin is a teacher.
مبكرا تصحو أن الالزم min al-laazim anمنtaSHu mubakkiran)
From necessity that you wake early.
You need to wake up early
Clarity Discovery
Indifference
Sounds
Meanings
StructurePerformance
Synthesis
Commonality
Global
Local
Culture
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