CMNS 304W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noam Chomsky, Basque Language, Phatic Expression
21 Jun 2015
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Language is between 10,000 and 100,000 years old. Greek (1400 bce): the chinese family of languages (1300 bce), English was published in 1604: hebrew (1200 bce), euskera (basque), tamil (>300 bce). Gossip is a text that: disparages the absent other, and/or other, glorifies oneself vicariously, or by association with an absent. Gossip turns out to serve a purpose nyt, 16 august 2005): Long-term studies of pacific islanders, american middle-school children and residents of rural. Newfoundland and mexico, among others, have confirmed that the content and the frequency of gossip are universal: people devote anywhere from one-fifth to two-thirds of their daily conversation to gossip. Cmns 304w lecture 2 of the constitutive factors [dimensions] of communication: Roman jakobson"s model of the functions of communication: He was too old to be of assistance. Language operates automatically as a biological endowment (language and problems of knowledge, p 45).
