NAME : ASMARANI HARMA

STUDENT ID : 06120180159
CLASS : C1
SUBJECT : SEMANTIC

a. The Non Linguistic Context

Behavioursm
This is behaviourism, associated first in linguistics with Bloomfield. Bloomfield’s
starting point was not so much his observation of language events as his belief in
scientific nature of his subject and he maintained that only useful generalisations
about language are ‘inductive’ generalisation. Behaviourism is a systematic
approach to the understanding of human and animal behaviour. It assumes that
all behaviour are either rexlexes produced by a response to certain stimuli in the
environment or a consequence of that individual’s history, including especially
reinforcement and punishment, together with the individual’s current motivational
state and controlling stimuli.
b. Linguisitc Context
Collocation
A collocation is two or more words that are frequently used together. The
combination of these words sounds normal to a native English speaker who
typically learns collocations when learning to talk. Whereas, these combinations
may be unnatural to English Language Learners (ELL or ESL); they will most
likely need to be taught collocations through explicit instruction. For example:
My father likes strong tea (not powerfull tea)
I cannot come to your house because it is heavy rain (not wighty rain).