WRIT 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Language Change, Psycholinguistics, Grammar
21 Sep 2017
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Language has allowed humans to do more, to think more. It was only when humans began using language that they slowly became knowledgeable. September 20, 2017: human language, unlike other species" language, has transferred meanings. We can expand into abstract thinking through language beyond the present world: animals can only make utterances about one thing and only in the present. Humans can use language to refer to events that happened in the past, present and will happen in the future: animals emit one sounds out of time. Humans can refer to other language within the same language structure. : food, shelter: regulatory (laws, personal (ability to individually express ourselves, heuristic (education, representational (communicating knowledge, ideas to others, divertive (entertainment, humour, contractual (legal, business, historical. For example varies on the community you grew up in. It is individual because we have different ways of interpreting. Argues for a single system of language based on an authorized collection of definitions and rules.
