Compensatory Strategies
A common set of communication devices involves compensation for missing knowledge. These are called “compensatory strategies”. We will elaborate here on three of them.
Typical of beginning-level learners, for example, is the memorization of certain phrases or sentences without internalized knowledge of their components. These memorized chunks of language, known as prefabricated patterns, include “on the way to”, “Nice to meet you”, “I don’t speak English.” Prefabricated patterns are sometimes the source of some fun. In my first days of Kikongo learning in Africa, I tried to say, in Kikongo, “I don’t know Kikongo” to those who attempted to converse with me; I later discovered t...
According to the last paragraph, Portland’s fire chief believes that
In the fragment from the second paragraph “Poverty also pushes up fire risk”, the expression in bold means
De acordo com o segundo parágrafo, algumas cidades estadunidenses
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