ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Idiolect, James W. Pennebaker, Communicative Competence
27 Feb 2017
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Humans use language to think, communicate with each other beyond instinctual use of body signals, transmit knowledge to generations and to do other things that make them unique among species. Human civilization, with its legal systems and written codices of knowledge, is built on language. Each word is a capsule of time-specific knowledge, an act of human consciousness, and an implicit principle of social structure. The greek philosophers saw language as a manifestation of logos meaning both word and. Reason or mind , thus as the faculty uniting thought and speech. Modern day study of this manifestation is the objective of the discipline of linguistics; the study of language as an intrinsic part of social systems is the goal of sociolinguistics, a major branch of linguistics. 400 bce: indian scholar panini described sanskrit language with about 4,000 rules. Language comes from the latin word lingua meaning tongue.
