Utterance

In the September and October 2003 edition of Child Development the article “The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech” was published. The purpose of this study was to answer the research question “Can SES-related differences in children’s vocabulary development be explained as the result of SES-related differences in their language-learning experiences?” Hoff later explains in the Introduction how there is evidence…

Sacks describes that speech does not just consist of words alone, but also “utterances.” People with aphasia are sensitive to the tone and feeling of words and are able to grasp the expression or utterance that goes along with the spoken word. In this way whenever a group of individuals with aphasia might laugh at a President’s speech because they are able to grasp the utterances of what is truly communicated, when individuals with “normal” speech might be fooled by what is being…

Electioneering activities can be tied to context; several studies have been conducted on the pragmatic analysis of electoral speeches. However, this research examined the pragmatic uses and functions of Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural speech. Searle’s taxonomy of speech acts alongside Halliday’s meta-functions was the theoretical framework deployed in this paper. Findings revealed that Buhari’s inaugural speech is a preponderance of Expressives at 31% and Commissives at 28%. The pronominal analysis…

Using natural language to communicate is, for the vast majority of us, something we do every day from a very young age. That said, when we look closely, communication is not without its fair share of hurdles. Indeed, is a fact of human social intercourse that individuals do not always say what they mean, or mean what they say in conversational contexts. In this paper, we will expound upon the issue of implicatures present in human communication, as described by Grice. In addition, we will…

content with dying eventually. He will take pleasure in the joys while he is on Earth but will relinquish in death when it comes for him. So why is the sonnet a lyric? Helen Vendler, though controversial, brings up the point that these utterances are “preeminently utterances for us to utter as ours. It is indispensable, then, if we are…

How baby talk can help? As mentioned above, baby talk is characterized by slower and more repetitive tone than used in regular conversation and the speech is more likely in shorter, simpler utterances. Do infants pay greater attention to speech with such characteristics? The answer appears to be yes: They show a clear preference for it, from an early age, over adult-directed speech (e.g., Fernald 1985; Panneton Cooper & Aslin 1990; Werker, Pegg, & McLeod 1994; see also Zangl & Mills 2007).…

importance of our voice. I found it fascinating that speech pathologists can help people, who are unable to have a voice due to a disorder, around the world find their own distinctive and customized voice. TO achieve this, a few hundred to thousands of utterances from a…

Tashunka Witko, better regarded by his anglicized name, “Crazy Horse”, was a Lakota warrior instrumental in the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. “Tashunka Witko” directly translates to “His-Horse-Is-Crazy”, but does not ring a bell as proficiently as the name “Crazy Horse." Furthermore, this Lakota Warrior was bestowed with the name “Crazy Horse” after he displayed himself as a competent warrior, and was born with a different name: “In the Wilderness.” In fact, the…

In his dreams and on his own, he recalled the feeling of happiness, and though by an utterance of thought, it is still somehow unavailable to him in its entirety. The emotion is not directed at any particular moment, and rare in its occurrence. The narrator shows other people to have outspoken happiness, in circumstances that he does not believe…

preconceived notions of rhetoric as a study limited to the realm of politics, which is illustrated in “The Problem of Speech Genres” through the statement: This is because any research whose material is concrete language… inevitably deals with concrete utterances (written and oral) belonging to various spheres of human activity and communication (Bakhtin,…