BASLP 1st Semester Notes  » Paper 1: Communication Sciences

Unit 1: Speech, language and communication

  • Definitions of speech, language, communication, and their components
  • Distinctions, similarities and functions of communication, speech and language
  • Speech as an overlaid function
  • Speech chain
  • Normal development of speech & language
  • Pre-requisites and factors affecting speech-language development
  • Cultural and linguistic issues in communication; bi/multilingual issues
Speech as an Overlaid Function

Speech as an Overlaid Function

Speech as an Overlaid Function: According to Sapir, 1921 physiologically, speech is an overlaid function, or to be more precise, a group of overlaid functions. It gets what service it can out of organs and functions, nervous and muscular, that have come into being and...

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The Speech Chain Model

The Speech Chain Model

The Speech Chain Model: The process of speech communication involves a series of actions connecting the speaker's and the listener's brains. This series of occurrences will be referred to as the speech chain. The different forms in which a spoken message exists in its...

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