CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hate Speech, Animal Communication, Arbitrariness
3 Mar 2016
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Charles hockett and the design features of language. The art of rethoric language - cultural power / political power / ancient greens// believed that language was given them by gods. Dysphemisms ( - ) and. People try to imitate natural sounds and all languages came from nature. Hockett"s design features of languages - american linguist, polyglot. Was interested in the question of language origins. He tried to de ne a spoken language and describe it + prescribe what spoken language should be. Also he has interest in animal communication/ language. Intrapersonal feedback (when we speak we hear ourselves and we can adjust rhythm, tone ) Sematicity - from the word semantics - the meaning. Arbitrariness - : it came from conventions / traditions which give meaning to particular words / it is the consequence of society. [ there is no present because it is too short to exist. Thus, there are only memories : displacement.
