LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cattle, Language Change, Foal
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4/6: semantics & pragmatics: info encoded by words & phrases in multiple ways. Destination and last stop mean same thing but have slightly different meanings: semantics- words and phrases link to concepts, pragmatics- people use language with intent that others uncover. Indexical meaning: social meaning that can be found in expressions. Expressing some concepts in terms of some other concept. Third order of symbolism: extending symbolic scope of expressions. Ex: face of the mountain , mouth of the river , time is money . No: mapping of concepts to symbols differ across cultures concepts & symbols are independent, body, space, time: drawing of human body labeled/body parts; use 3d box or teapot to refer to body parts too (metaphorical extension) 4/11: written symbols are representations of speech not vice versa, empirical study of language: detection of patterns/structure; organization of symbols, cultural study of language: variance in convention.
