WRIT 1000 Lecture Notes - New Rhetorics, Linguistic Prescription, Written Language

• School: York University
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRIT 1000
• Professor: John Spencer

Document Summary

Human language has transferred meanings, in animals most sounds refer to only one referent. Human language has the ability to refer to more referents. Metaphors etc: animal communication is only present and for current events. Human language has the magnificent ability to talk about past and future: human language has syntax. Language was invented in different cultures of people that had no contact with each other. That"s why language is understood as a uniquely human ability. We innately learn oral language by simply growing up in a community with that language. It is essential to human survival and success. 2- regulatory controlling of behaviour through rule of law, hierarchy, etc. 4- personal expression of feelings in a personal way. 6- imaginative for create of entertainment and amusement. 7- represententional our ability to communicate information. 9- contractual used in business and politics when we negotiate a contract between two parties.