Anthropology 2245F/G Chapter Notes -North Germanic Languages, Semiotics, Hominidae
25 Mar 2014
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Chapter 2 nature of the linguistic sign: ferdinand de saussure. Ferdinand de saussure: linguist from turn of the 20th century, credited for seeing that language can be looked at diachronically (historically) and synchronically (at any given moment in time, words are a linguistic sign. Invented semiotics: general science of signs that can be used to analyze film, literature, clothing, food and all human behaviour. Onomatopoeia: words like glug-glug, chosen somewhat approximately for imitations of certain sounds, subject to phonetic evolution, lose part of original character: 2. Interjections: reactionary sounds like ouch, no fixed bond between their signified and their signifier. Chapter 3 the origin of speech: charles hockett. Charles hockett: linguist and anthropologist, the design features: the logical components of a communicative system, they put human language on a continuum with the communicative systems of various species. = must be basic features of design that can be present or absent in any communicative system.
