CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meta-Communication, Concatenation, Reflectance
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11 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
September 22 - Language and Culture
Corax
●first political philosopher
St. Augustine
●author of confessions
●remembers when he learned language
“Magical Words”
●Politeness “Please” and “Thank You”
●Expletives (cursing)
●Hate speech
●Dysphemisms and Euphemisms
Politeness
-socializes people and takes an edge off of language
-Turks vs. Germans
-Turks stir up conversation before asking for favors whereas Germans go straight to the point
-Different cultures, different perspective on what is polite
Expletives
-Latin is associated within upper class. Curse words are considered not as rude because Latin is an “upper
class” language
-speech differences between classes ie) upper class uses “one” instead of “I”
D and E
-Euphemisms = to soften the language
-We use euphemisms because we are afraid of the strength of the direct word
-Dysphemisms = deliberately using a strong word
Call of Nature hypothesis and Gestural Origins hypothesis
Call of Nature = humans respond to nature when creating language
ex) when children are born, they randomly make noises which form into words
ex) grunts sound rhythmic, leads to a chant/song
ex) Sounds of the wind etc
“Words are the result of the formation of natural occurring sounds”
Gestural Origins =
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