EN 2643 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ontogeny, George Lakoff, Metonymy
27 Sep 2016
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Language: a biological software downloaded into our minds at 1-1. 5 y/old. Animal children: raised outside of society, dont learn language & cripples them for later learning of language. Ferdinand de saussure: french linguist (french were the linguist pros) Course in general linguistics: written by ferdinand de saussure. Linear relationship in words in the progression of a sentence. Going from the beginning of a sentence to the end of a sentence period. Array of synonyms/personal associations of each word. Robin scholes: our actual selection of our word in a sentence involves rapid scanning of synonyms. All words above/below the main word are paradigmatic words. Each reader has its own personalized set of paradigmatic words. (or diachronic axis) is the historical axis. Word: went -> wenden (old english 1000 y/ago) -> venda (germanic) -> wandian (old nors) Word: on -> an (old english) -> aan (germanic) (old nors) * each word goes up an x as the sentence progresses.
