CMNS 1115 Lecture Notes - Meta-Communication, Onomatopoeia, Hate Speech
Document Summary
Charles hockett and the design features of language. Every culture has taboo words and polite words. Represent ideas by changing the way we refer them. Dysphemisms and euphemisms (softer, gentler words) Maybe we have gestures first then vocalize. Interested in basic structure of how language was built. Only humans have language, animals have communication systems. Compels us to listen to the past, present, future. Semanticity (has a plot to it, must have meaning) Arbitrariness (an agreement that certain words will mean certain things, except onomatopoeia) hiss = snake. Displacement (talk about something that is not there) animals also have this. Productivity (combine words that make them completely wrong) How are you today?, i"m good (but not good at all) Reflectivity [meta-communication] talk about communication, animals can communicate. Concatenation (duality of patterning) latin: connecting things together, involves chaining of parts, no singularity. Medium transferability: changing spoken words into written text, ex.
