Pragmatics Are The Rules For The Social Use Of Language

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Pragmatics are the rules for the social use of language.
Which includes intentions of communication, organization of language for discussion, what to say, how and when to say it, also what linguistic, non-linguistic and para-linguistic aspects to use.
An example of pragmatics is knowing your audience; if you were speaking to young children you would talk differently than you would to a friend. Going along with audience, an important social skill pragmatics brings upon is the idea of picking up on or revealing information from social queue’s including, linguistic, non-linguistic and para-linguistic language. This includes; posture, physical reactions, facial expressions, tone, volume, eye contact, etc. Pragmatics also involves using language …show more content…

These parts of grammar are difficult for them and may affect their sentence writing.
For a student with Down syndrome, they find large deficits in syntax. The emergence of two-word combinations is delayed in young children with Down syndrome, and children and adolescents with Down syndrome continue to produce shorter and less complex utterances than same-age peers. For example, Price and colleagues (2008) found that a group of 31 boys with Down syndrome produced less complex noun phrases, verb phrases, sentence structures, and less complex questions and negations during conversation with an examiner than younger typically developing boys of similar nonverbal mental age.
Morphology is the organization of words.
Morphology is the set of rules is the ability to identify, analyze and describe language morphemes and other units of language. For example is in the word shipment, ship- is a free morpheme. A free morpheme(s) is a morpheme(s) that is able to stand alone as a word. However, -ing, -ed, re-, etc. are bound morphemes, meaning it is only part of another word, not a word on its

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