ACS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Semiotics, Noam Chomsky

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Dana Osborne

Document Summary

Reasons to focus on language: essential to communicate, really helpful took that helps us clarify thought and able to caterogize the world, every discipline relies on language. 7000 forms of languages spoken around the world. Language: two analogies: early 20th century, created by ferdinand sausseure, Language is like: chess: including its history, rules, patterns Sending and respo(cid:374)di(cid:374)g to (cid:271)asi(cid:272) (cid:373)essages or (cid:272)ues e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g fro(cid:373) (cid:271)ioti(cid:272) to e(cid:448)e(cid:374) a for(cid:373) of a(cid:271)ioti(cid:272) is communicating: piano keyboard vs. anyone playing it, the 88 keys, history, theory ect. of the keyboard are language. Any particular song being played on the keyboard is speech. Song in general, making a melody to get a response is communication. Considering the piano and chess ananlogies for how language and speech are different, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h o(cid:374)e is false relatio(cid:374)ships (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:373)usi(cid:272)al s(cid:272)ales are (cid:373)ore like spee(cid:272)h. Chess and piano can be a manifestation of speech.