CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Animal Communication, Meta-Communication, Arbitrariness
11 Apr 2016
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Charles hocket and the design features of language. Historical origins of all human language are somehow hidden from us. You can know a language but not be competent. The ancient greeks quesioned the origins of language and ascribed in some instances to the. Idea the language was a visitaion from the gods was something they really liked. Corax and tisseus were interested in language and wanted to igure out how they might idenify the capacity it may have to make changes in the world. Coraz lived on an island and in 465 there was an uprising against the tyrants. The problem was ater 465 there was democracy, but nothing was done democraically. People had to go to court to prove that tyrants had taken their property, but not all had the educaion to go in front of the jury men and make their case.
