communicative behaviour with people who typically use them or situations
where they are typically used.prototype theoryn
see prototype
pro-verbn
a verb form that may be used instead of a full verb phrase. For example, in
English, various forms of do can be pro-verbs, as in:
A: I like coffee. A: She broke the window.
B: I dotoo. B: So she did.
So doI.
Alan doestoo.
see also pro-forms
providern
in language teaching, an institution, organization or school that is respon-
sible for developing and teaching a course. Sometimes responsibility for
planning and delivering a course may be divided between two different
organizations (e.g. such as a funding body or company that requests
a course and a language school that develops and teaches the course,
i.e. which is the providerof the course).
proxemicsn proxemicadj
the study of the physical distance between people when they are talking to
each other, as well as their postures and whether or not there is physical
contact during their conversation. These factors can be looked at in relation
to the sex, age, and social and cultural background of the people involved,
and also their attitudes to each other and their state of mind.
see also paralinguistics, social distance
pseudo-cleft sentencen
see cleft sentence
pseudowordn
a word that is not an actual word of a language but could be, because it
follows the phonotacticsof the language. For example, vonk andfoz
are English pseudowords, because they would be reasonable words,
while shvoplsis a nonword, one that is not and could not be an English
word.
prototype theory