NATURE OF LANGUAGE

The Nature of language by

• Noam Chomsky (LAD)

• Max Muller (The natural sound)

• Widdowson, H.G (1996)

• God

What is language?

• Complex system encharged of saving the world by words.

• It serves as a means of cognition and communication: it enables us to think ourselves and to cooperate with other people in our community.

• In the play he is reffered to as a monster, but that is better than being an ogre.

• Essential think for the humankind to survive and has served to extend control over other parts of the creation.

Unique features of human language that differ from animal communication?

• Flexibility and ilimited.

• Arbitrariness and duality.

• Originally and individual.

• Medium and mode.

Why animal communication can not be developed equal to human language?

• These primates are not physiologically equipped with the kind of vocal organs suited to human speech.

• Our judgements are bound to be anthropocentric.

• Animals can be induced to acquire language, it cannot essence be specific to the human species.

• Human language is just for humanity.

Define in 3 words the importance of language to humankind?

What is arbitrariness?

• The possibility of union between any sound chain and concept.

• Linguistic sign that is related to its meaning

• Linguistic sign unrelated to its meaning

• None

Through a drawing, represent the way in which birds or bees communicate.

The purpose of linguistics is...

• Science that studies the meaning of words and expressions.

• understand a set of elements and rules that allow the construction of meaningful sentences

• Explain how to write correctly.

• Investigate the origin, evolution and structure of language.

Ron Scollon (2004) language is not something that comes in "nicely packaged units and that it certanlly is...

• "a complex, specialized skill, wich develops in the child spontaneously"

• "a multiple, complex and kaleidoscopic phenomenon".

• "a sistematic means communicating ideas"

• "acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience or instruction"

Choose posible definitions of lenguaje

• Sistematic and arbitrary simbols.

• The simbols have conventionalized meanings to which they refer.

• Used for communication in a community or culture.

• All of them