INTERFERENCE
Interference
in communication is a term which means the influence of one language on
another. it is a situation whereby the knowledge of one language directly
affect the other when speaking it.
Interference,
irrespective of its form, could constitute serious problems to communication
because the receiver may find it difficult to with the sender vice- versa
during communication.
In as much
as those interference could be attributed to syntax and phonology, concerted
efforts should be made by communicators
regardless of the situation to learn the rules of grammar of the language being
spoken as well listen to best speakers as models for better pronunciation.
SYNTAX is the way words and phrases are put
together to form sentences in a language. It is also the rules that state how
words and phrases must be used in a given language.
When one
speaks first language( language 1) by directly applying the rules of grammar of
another language( language 2). It is called direct translation in syntax.
Examples of syntactic interference
are given below.
1. I enter two buses to my office everyday
2. We used three days in London last week
3. The boy took second position in his class.
4. Who will take this man to the director’s house?
The sentences above should be correctly written as:
2. We spent three days in London last week.
3. The boy came second in his class.
4. Who will lead this man to the director’s house?
CODE MIXING AND
CODE SWITCHING.
CODE MIXING in communication is a way of
speaking in such way that the communicator injects some words of another
language into the original medium of communication. It is usually for a very
short period of time. The speaker believe that the receiver understand the
language being injected.
CODE SWITCHING is a form of communication in which
the speaker (s) change (s) from one medium of communication to another either
completely or for a while and switch over to the initial medium of
communication. Unlike code mixing that the speaker inject another language for
a very short of time, in code switching the speaker switch completely for a
longer period of time before changing back to the initial medium of
communication.
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