Intelligibility Model Of English

Model of English

There are three types of country in the world in terms of their relationship to the English language. First, there are nation-states in which English is a native language (ENL)-where people have English as their mother-tongue, as they do in Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Varieties of English spoken in ENL countries are sometimes also referred to as 'Inner Circle ' Englishes. Second, there are countries where English is a foreign language (EFL), as in Poland, China and Brazil-sometimes known as 'Expanding Circle ' nations. These are places where people do not speak English natively and Standard English in the world 5 where, if they do speak English, they use it to speak to foreigners. And, third, there are places where

Concept of intelligibility

Intelligibility is one of the most important concepts considered when discussing language and communication. There is no unified definition of intelligibility agreed by linguists. How much of intelligibility can be called intelligibility and lack of tools to measure intelligibility get in the way of this idea. Kenworthy, the ability to be understood by the audience is intelligibility and is similar to the concept of comprehensibility. When words are exchanged for one another in speech they do not still hamper the intelligibility meaning it is not based on words.

Catford gives a very general definition of intelligibility from the point of view of effective communication in the given situation-when the words of a speaker are comprehended by the listener and are interpreted in relation to their linguistic shape and the meaning conventions of the speech community the language belongs to.

Smith and Nelson suggest that intelligibility is the listeners’ competence to recognize the linguistic aspects such as words and utterances, whereas their competence to understand their meaning is known as comprehensibility. Define them independently- intelligibility is to what extent the speaker’s utterance is understood by the hearer. They considered it worthy to maintain a distinction between this concept and comprehensibility, which is the hearer’s amount of difficulty and simplicity of understanding an

Jayaraju (2005) says effective communication takes off from the base intelligibility towards the density of interpretability. In this connection. It can be allegorically being said that it is effective basse that makes the flight of communication reach its destiny effectively and successfully.

In Nelson, 2008:301) This study adopts the definition of intelligibility and comprehensibility by Smith and Nelson (1985) for two reasons: firstly, their ability to reflect reciprocal relationship between recognition of words and understanding the utterance. As mentioned previously; and secondly, the distinction between two levels of understanding .within and beyond word boundaries.

My study relies on the definition of intelligibility and comprehensibility provided by Smith and Nelson. Due to two factors I) the respondents strike a balance between identifying and understanding words and ii)the respondents strike a balance between identifying and understanding words and ii) it is useful to investing these concepts both at intra-word and inter-words levels found in the