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azncindy619 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to ____, language provides a cognitive system that influences the way people thinks about the world.

a. linguistic relativity
b. linguistic universals
c. dual-system hypothesis
d. single-system hypothesis

Question 2

What is discourse?

What will be an ideal response?

sailorcrescent · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

Discourse involves units of language larger than individual sentencesin conversations, lectures, stories, essays, and even textbooks. Just as grammatical sentences are structured according to systematic syntactical rules, passages of discourse are structured systematically. By adulthood, most of us have a firm grasp of how sentences are sequenced into a greater whole (discourse structure). From our knowledge of discourse structure, we can derive meanings of sentence elements that are not apparent by looking at isolated sentences.