Examples of language in the following topics:
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- A single language is any specific example of such a system.
- Written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system.
- Written language exists only as a complement to a specific spoken language.
- A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveying sound patterns, uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning.
- Sign languages, like spoken languages, organize elementary units into meaningful semantic units.
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- The word language has at least two basic meanings: language as a general concept, and a specific linguistic system (e.g.
- Ferdinand de Saussure first explicitly formulated the distinction, using the French word langage for language as a concept, and langue as the specific instance of language.
- One definition sees language primarily as the mental faculty that allows humans to undertake linguistic behaviour--to learn languages and produce and understand utterances.
- Human languages are usually referred to as natural languages, and the science of studying them falls under the purview of linguistics.
- Members of a culture usually share a common language.
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- The origin of language is a widely discussed and controversial topic due to very limited empirical evidence.
- The origin of language in the human species is a widely discussed topic.
- Theories about the origin of language can be divided according to their basic assumptions.
- Other continuity-based models see language as having developed from music.
- The origin of language in the human species is a widely discussed topic.
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- Body language may provide clues as to the attitude or state of mind of a person.
- Another obvious example of expressive body language used in everyday life is flirting.
- Note the significant attention paid to body language.
- Does it have anything to do with her body language?
- Discuss the importance of body language as a means of social communication and give specific examples of body language
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- Various theories assume that language is not simply a representational tool; rather it fundamentally shapes our perception.
- Various theories assume that language fundamentally shapes our perception.
- The strong version states that language determines thought and emotions/feelings, and linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories
- Cognition and Communication Research Centre film describing recent research on the mapping between language and perception, and whether the language one speaks affects how one thinks.
- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis suggests that language shapes the way we see the world.
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- English as a second language (ESL) refers to the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages.
- English as a second language (ESL), English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) all refer to the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages.
- Generally, English Language Learners (ELL) are refugees, immigrants, or their children.
- Those whose native languages are drastically different from English may find it especially difficult to learn the sounds and grammar of English, while others whose native languages are more similar may have less trouble.
- Children are taught English as their second language in the 3rd grade.
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- Dunbar has proposed that language evolved as early humans began to live in large communities that required the use of complex communication to maintain social coherence.
- However, languages, now understood as the particular set of speech norms of a particular community, are also a part of the larger culture of the community that speak them.
- Humans use language as a way of signalling identity with one cultural group and difference from others.
- Even among speakers of one language, several different ways of using the language exist, and each is used to signal affiliation with particular subgroups within a larger culture.
- Paraphrase what is currently thought to be the reason for the development of language and complex culture
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- Gestures allow individuals to communicate a variety of feelings and thoughts, from contempt and hostility to approval and affection, often together with body language in addition to spoken words.
- Gestural languages such as American Sign Language and its regional siblings operate as complete natural languages that are gestural .
- American Sign Language, or ASL, is a gestural language.
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- A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.
- They often seem mentally impaired and have almost insurmountable trouble learning human language.
- The impaired ability to learn language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning at an early age, and is taken as evidence in favor of the critical period hypothesis.
- It is theorized that if language is not developed, at least to a degree, during this critical period, a child can never reach his or her full language potential.
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- The elements of culture include (1) symbols (anything that carries particular meaning recognized by people who share the same culture); (2) language (system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another); (3) values (culturally-defined standards that serve as broad guidelines for social living; (4) beliefs (specific statements that people hold to be true); and (5) norms (rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members).
- For example, Boas called attention to the idea that language is a means of categorizing experiences, hypothesizing that the existence of different languages suggests that people categorize, and thus experience, language differently.
- Therefore, although people may perceive visible radiation the same way, in terms of a continuum of color, people who speak different languages slice up this continuum into discrete colors in different ways.