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Langue and parole
• Langue (French,meaning"language") describes the social, impersonal phenomenon of language as a system of signs, • Parole describes the individual, personal phenomenon of language as a series of speech acts made by a linguistic subject
the perspective of function
• Communicative events （交际事件） • Variety in language（语言变体）
Elements of Context
• The participants o other situation • The cultural factors
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Context of situation
• Bronisław Malinowski • Context is a notion used in the language sciences( linguistics, sociolinguistics, • systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, semiotics, etc.)
Register
• It was used to explain how people use language in different situations and choose the appropriate type according to the situation.
Three factors of Register
Halliday's three meta functions of language
• 1.Field of discourse(语场) • 2.Tendor of discourse(语旨) • 3Mode of discourse(语式)
• 1.Ideational function(概念功能) • 2.Interpersonal function（人际功能） • 3.Textual function （语篇/篇章功能）
Context of situation
• • • • in two different ways verbal context social context Influence the Communication
Verbal context and Social contexts
• Verbal context refers to surrounding text or talk of an expression (word, sentence, conversational turn, speech act, etc.). • In sociolinguistics, Social contexts were defined in terms of objective social variables, such as those of class, gender or race.
Register and pragmatic translation
textual analysis
• • • • • Genre（文类） Discourse（语篇） Register（语域） Pragmatic （语用） Other elements in communication
Juliane House
Content level
Content level
Genre
Expressive level
Register
Expressive level
Language
The impacts on text
• Register (vocabulary, syntax) • Genre (discourse structure)
variety
• User-related variation( dialectal varieties ) • Social status, level, time ,region, individual • Use-related variation( diatypic varieties, that is register ) • communicative activities