COURSE: CONVERSATIONAL

ENGLISH I – LESSON 1
Professor: Ylmer Aranda
Contents
• The importance of speaking
English
• Linguistic key concepts
• Roman Jakobson and the
functions of language
• Hockett’s design features
• The emission of information
• The reception of information
• Anatomy of speech
• Physiology of speech
• Speech and writing
The importance of speaking English

The English
speaking Business Mass media
world

Fashion and Science and

Sports
tourism technology
Linguistic key concepts

Language Speech Communication

Phonetics and
Standard Dialect
phonology
Roman Jakobson and the functions of
language
Hockett’s design features

Broadcast
Vocal-Auditory transmission and
Rapid fading Interchangeability Total feedback Specialization
Channel directional
reception

Traditional
Semanticity Arbitrariness Discreteness Displacement Productivity
transmission

Duality of
Prevarication Reflexiveness Learnability
Patterning
The emission of information

Message
given to the
Articulation addressee
of sounds of
Creation of its
ideas and equivalents
Intention of thoughts
the author
The reception of information

Receipt of the Assimilation of Growth of

Response
addresser the message new ideas
Anatomy of speech
• Any conversation has to take
into account that speech is an
anatomical process. It implies
the role of certain organs that
perform specific functions and
articulate the sounds of
language.
Physiology of speech
• In any conversation, the
language is a physiological
process. This means that
phonation occurs in a certain
manner, which has modified the
articulation of sounds and give
them a specific meaning in the
message.
Speech and writing
• Speech and writing are
complementary elements of any
conversation.
• Writing can aid a conversation
that cannot communicate
efficiently the oral ideas. Speech Writing
• However, speech is more
suitable to save time and the
effort of writing, for example, an
argument.
Thank you!