ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Honey Bee, Roman Jakobson, Waggle Dance

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All languages are equally able to provide speakers with means of communication linguistic relativity. Language is a set of publicly (shared in a group) accessible symbols by which individuals communicate. Symbolic relationship between sounds/signs of a language + meaning. Sounds of a language do not mean anything by themselves: productivity. There is an infinite # of ways to combine the sounds new words and they can lie: displacement. Language isn"t tied to the present or to the geographical location the speaker is in: channel. Not learned through genetic inheritance: rapid fading. Communication conveying of meaning messages from 1 person to another roman jacobson: addresser/sender, addresse/receiver, message sound, channel, code common language, context image. Need all these things 1-6 to be able to communicate. Most agree that animal systems do not have all of hockett"s design features. Most animal call systems are closed systems each discrete call is unique + can"t be combined with other cells limited in topic range.

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