WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINE By: Aldrin Nepomuceno Salem Raymundo
Aug 20, 2015
WRITING
IN THE DISCIPLINE
By: Aldrin NepomucenoSalem Raymundo
Aldrin Nepomuceno
SubsententialTerminology
Text
Paragraph
Sentence
Clause
Phrase
Word
Hierarchy of the Written Language Structure
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO KNOW
A
WORD???
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO KNOW A WORD?
What makes you think that
you REALLY
ABSOLUTELYPRECISELY
know thisWORD?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO KNOW A WORD???
1. PHONETIC REPRESENTATION2. ORTHOGRAPHY (SPELLING)3. MORPHOLOGICAL IRREGULARITY4. SYNTACTIC FEATURES AND
RESTRICTIONS5. COMMON DERIVATIONS AND COLLOCATIONS6. SEMANTIC FEATURES AND RESTRICTIONS7. PRAGMATIC FEATURES AND
RESTRICTIONS
1 Phonetic Representation
* (chayld)
2Orthography/
Spelling
* c-h-i-l-d
SOME FACTS ON SPELLING!
No correlation with general intelligence
No correlation with education
No correlation with desire
It is all about Organizational Skills and
Exreme Attention to Details!
3 Morphological Irregularity
Singular Form
Plural Form
child children
4Syntactic Features and Restrictions
* Part of Speech- NOUN (count noun)
5 Common Derivations and
Collocations•Childike , childish , childhood• Child labor & Child Psychology
IRREGULAR PLURAL FORMS OF NOUNS alumnus > alumni, radius > radii analysis > analyses, ellipsis >
ellipses appendix > appendices, matrix >
matrices woman > women, man > men bacterium > bacteria, criterion >
criteria deer > deer, fish > fish
6Semantic Features and Restrictions
•Semantic information- synonyms &
antonyms
A. The child left two hours ago.
B. The child evaporated two hours ago.
7 Pragmatic Features and Restrictions
A.It’s a snowy day today. My kids are home from school.
B. It’s a snowy day today. My kid is home from school.
HOW ARE WORDS FORMED?
English Words
FreeMorpheme
Lexical Content(Major Parts of
Speech)
Grammatical Function
(Minor Parts of Speech)
Bound Morpheme
Lexical Content(Derivational Morphemes)
Grammatical Function
(Inflectional Morphemes)
Word Formation Processes
DerivationCategory ExtensionCompoundingRoot CreationClippingBlendingAcronym/
AbbreviationProper NameFolk EtymologyBack Formation
Formal + ize = Formalize
Fast (N) > Fast (Adj)BittersweetKodak & FrigidaireBra < BrassiereMotor + Hotel = MotelSARS/ TVHamburger < HamburgCockroach <
CucarachaBurgle < Burglar
• Pronunciation;
unique style of
enunciating
phonetics
• Choice of Words
DICTION
Refer to current dictionaries
Distinguish the different meanings
of words
Homonyms
Research on some recent lexical
changes
Research on some lexical variations
ACHIEVING LEXICAL ACCURACY
Achieving Word Power
O A rich and dynamic VOCABULARY is the shortest route to effective COMMUNICATION.
O Effective communication is the key element to LEADERSHIP.
O Persons with richer vocabulary do better in school and are also more SUCCESSFUL in their later careers.
Increasing one’s Vocabulary
O Learn a new word every day.O Play word games e.g. scrabble
or word factoryO Try making anagrams O Learn foreign words and phrasesO Learn jargons and gobbledygookO Read serious literature.
“It is not the words that fail: it’s the person that wields them that does. And If you think about it, words are all we really have. So make good use of them”
- Jessica Zafra, Twisted 7
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