Introduction to Linguistics notes
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LINGUISTICA ANIMALS AND HUMAN COMUNICATION If someone ask you what eparates humans from other animals, one of the first things that would probably come to your mind is language. In fact, the otiginal term for language refer...
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language production 1 - created from Mind Map Hockett's design features for human language (some shared with animals, but only humans use the full set) components of language Grice's four conversation rules/maxims
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1. Three Dimensions Three Dimensions Discrete Infinity Discrete means limited or countable. A discrete system is a system with a limited number of things in it. The alphabet for example. With these limited items, you can make many differ...
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Linguistics - creado desde un Mapa Mental Linguistics branches The scientific or systematic study of language Microlinguistics
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THE CLASSIFICATION OF MODERN LINGUISTIC STUDIES - created from Mind Map Branches of Modern Linguistics. Approaches to Language Differences: general assumptions and goals. Three main trends in modern linguistics.
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2. Human Language vs Other 'Languages' Human Language vs Other 'Languages' We use language, in order to communicate, to think, and to show who we are, to which group of human beings we belong or want to belong. It's also very hard to imagine a field in soc...
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Components of the language - created from Mind Map The language is a system o communication It is divided in this elements Syntax
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The Origins of Language - creado desde un Mapa Mental Language is a system of symbols, whith several levels of organizations. The mama theory The ta-ta theory.
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THE CLASSIFICATION OF MODERN LINGUISTIC STUDIES - created from Mind Map Branches of Modern Linguistics. applied linguistic cognitive linguistics
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On the Arbitrary Nature of Linguistic Singn - creado desde un Mapa Mental
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