SOSC 1140 Lecture : Monday Sept 19 MOR.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: Nadiah Habib

Document Summary

Language is very complicated, it is symbolic (symbol system) Language helps give us shape to our experiences (know how to interact with things, chair. If language cant explain something experiences will be limited . Example: think of the word slang , think of the word sick . Most important communication we engage in is language, very critical, (cant learn math, hard to be precise about what you mean without language) Language: (take definition from text book) example; you see a chair you know what to do (sit on it) language helps us understand. the concept of cool. Language can generate feelings fuck off you slut .