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L O W L A N D S - L - 05 April 2011 - Volume 01<br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color:#5B1094">Pat Barrett</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language varieties" 2011.04.04 (01)
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I hope I'm not violating procedures here but I think one must read the
following post in order to understand my question:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Paul: are you saying native
speakers do not speak their language well? If you wanted to know how to say
something in Turkish, would you not ask a Turk? I believe what you are getting
at here is the difference between interpersonal language use and presentational
language use; the latter is always explicit, goal-oriented, often spare to the
point that listeners must be very focused, whereas in normal interpersonal
conversation, interlocutors are often engaged in other tasks and not entirely
focused on the conversation. In addition, and perhaps this may enter into your
characterization, most interlocutors share a local, immediate, and intimate
context whereas presentational speech must assume little or no such context and
therefore is much more explicit, making it easier for a foreigner to follow.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Characterizing interpersonal
speech as 'not speaking their own language well' seems to me highly inaccurate.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Pat Barrett</p>
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