Language Levels

• Lexical words carry some form of meaning
• Grammatical words serve a cohesive purpose in holding the sentence together.
• Phonology refers to the sound system.
• Semantics is the study of how words create meanings.
• Pragmatics refers to the implied meanings of English and how language use creates meanings in interactional contexts.
• Discourse refers to the ways in which whole texts are constructed beyond the word, phrase and sentence.