Class3 - The Role of Communication (cont)
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This document discusses the topic of human language and communication. It addresses four questions: (1) the characteristics of human language, (2) how human language differs from animal communication systems, (3) how language is acquired, and (4) how language operates. Key points made include that language is complex and cannot be studied as a whole, it will be approached from a psycholinguistic perspective focusing on the mind, and that language and communication are independent concepts that differ between humans and animals in formality, biology, and psychology. Videos are also provided as examples relating to language use in animals.
Class3 - The Role of Communication (cont)
- 1. Communication? Class 1.3 LCD 105– Professor Nathacia
- 2. Language is a way of communication ? The thing about communication
- 5. Video: Einstein the famous talking African Grey Parrot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rfGEtALHYs
- 6. Video: Ape House and author Sara Gruen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ-40_4chlI
- 7. (i) In what extent this language is different from animal communication systems? • Formal: Creativity; Generative (system designed to be fruitful) • Biological: Genetics (FOXP2); language physiology (visual, hearing, and vocal apparatuses, brain); exaptation; • Psychological: Recursion; complexity; memory. (Human) Language: three aspects
- 8. (i)What are the characteristics of (human) language? (ii) In what extent this language is different from animal communication systems? (iii) How is it acquired? (iv) How does it operate? ü (Human) Language: three aspects
- 9. (i)What are the characteristics of (human) language? (ii) In what extent this language is different from animal communication systems? (iii) How is it acquired? (iv) How does it operate? ü (Human) Language: three aspects
- 10. - Language is a complex object that cannot be scientifically studied as a whole; - To this class, we are adopting the Psycholinguistic point of view, that wants to understand Language in terms of what happens in the mind related to language and how that abstract part interacts with the externalizations through speech, signs, and written symbols; - Language and Communication are two independent things; - Human Language and animal’s systems of communication are different in their formality, biology and psychology; Summing up: