CHAPTER REPORT

1st TOPIC

Name : Minda Agustina

Student ID : 1906960
Lecturer : Ahmad Bukhori Muslim, M.Ed., PhD
Subject : Language in Use

This course discussed about what language is, how to use language then how to
understand the meaning in some different language use and contexts. It can also be defined as
a joint action means one that is carried out by an ensemble of people acting in coordination
with each other. Like as a language use, it embodies both individual and social processes. The
setting of language use will also be reported in this chapter so you can develop principles to
account for how language use is a joint action.

 Language Definition
 Features of language use consists of :
- Appropriateness
- Non literal or indirect meaning
- Inference
- Indeterminacy
- Context
- Relevance
- Accommodation
- Reflexivity
- Misfires
 Problems that are commonly faced in language use
- Deixis
- Utterances of speech acts
- Implicature
 Setting of Language is the way to remark the language use range. It consists of :
- Spoken setting. A conversation is most often mentioned for this spoken setting. It
can be divided into personals setting, non-personal setting, institutional setting,
 prescriptive setting, fictional setting, mediated setting, and the last is private
setting.
- Written setting. People adapted spoken language to the printed medium when the
printing, writing and literacy were introduced. So that can be called as written
setting. It can be in personal setting even more having the conversation more
closely.
- Conversation as basic setting. It is the basic and primary language use what we are
also using.
- Non-basic setting consists of immediacy, medium, and control.
 Arenas of language Use. There are roles of speakers and addressee. It also depends
on :
- Meaning and understanding
- Participants
- Layers in Language Arenas
 Actions of Language. This can be described as an activity or actions that the speakers
and addressee do when they are in Arenas of language use.
- Joint Action
- Speaking and Listening
 The Roles of Speakers
 The Roles of the addressee
 Six proportion used as an approach to language use
- Language fundamentally is used for social purposes
- Language use is a species of joint action
- Language use always involves speaker’s meaning and addressee’s understanding
- The basic setting for language use is face-to-face conversation
- Language use often has more than one layer of activity
- The study of language use is both a cognitive and a social science