CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Universal Grammar, Language Acquisition, Meta-Communication

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Jean Hebert

Document Summary

I saw it and realized that the ting they wished to indicate was called by the name they then uttered. Language acquisition, particularly oral, still plagues us even though we are masters of us (eg. pronunciation) The call of nature hypothesis: out of the inarticulate calls, cries and grunts of our hominid ancestors, speech gradually emerged. Now language is thought of as socially created (and not bestowed upon each individual) The gestural origins hypothesis: gestures arose first, with uttered language coming later (eg. babies) Walter ong: our thoughts are governed by our media in oral communication we have more reciprocal communication, literacy introduces linearity of thought and a bias towards one way, hierarchical communication. Polychronic and monochronic time: monochronic (m) time: linear, scheduled, quantified (saved/spent/wasted), task oriented (roughly business/gendered as male, polychronic (p) time: nonlinear, unscheduled, unquantified, people-oriented (roughly family/ gendered as female in the west)