PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Language Acquisition, Hate Speech, Language Change
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You need language to talk about language. Language by definition is a social phenomenon. Charles hockett and the design features of language. We perform because language allows us to do something in the world. We do things with words: promises, lies, truths, etc. When they called some thing by name and pointed it out while they spoke, i. September 18, 2012 saw it and realized that the thing they wished to indicate was called by the name they then uttered. Never really learned to speak: sees language as a natural phenomenon by means of whimpering , language begun with natural shapings and human activities. September 18, 2012: generally, has a class function, fuck, shit, piss became lower class words. Hate speech: possible 14 year sentence for committing a hate speech . Dysphemisms (sounds harsh) and euphemisms (softer way of saying something) The call of nature hypothesis: people began to throw out tradition and scholars questioned the.
