ENGL 4300Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Zombie, Performativity
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Simon clark article and the movie pontypool. Canadian trope or interesting turning on not making sense. Not seeing the zombies until about half way through. Presentation two (linguistic theory and language plague) emma. Saussure says that language is a system of signs and a social institution with certain characteristics psychological . Language consists of the union of meanings and sound images, [which is] Hear and understand the word to turn into a zombie writing is safe. Language inevitably changes for a wide variety of reasons. We cannot predict how language will change in order to accommodate semantic. Spoken words are understand my the sequence of sounds each word has a alternations different sequence of sounds. The primary threat in the movie is not external, but internal; it is not the infected humans, but language, which seems to consume and destroy itself as well as humans. Only english is infected by this plague.