ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proxemics, Kinesics

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Bryan Cummins

Document Summary

Language is defined as a system for communication in symbols of information, all language is symbolic, > our system is an open system of communication, all other species (so they say), are closed systems. This means that, first of all, in terms of languages, these languages can be put together in so many different ways that it"s virtually infinite. This is a very important and fundamental aspect of human language, it is the ability to communicate or to talk about other than here and now. This gives us the ability to say detailed information passed onto each other. > almost weekly, we are learning about the communication methods of other species, they have determined that a pod of orcas, have various dialects. What people refer to as dialects, are variations of language, and what is termed a dialect has to do with political/social/economic inequality.