SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Marshall Mcluhan, Electronic Funds Transfer, Alexander Graham Bell
7 Oct 2013
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Media and medium are latin terms, means the middle, something that connects one thing to another. medium connects the small to the large the means by which communication takes place. A tool or device that receives and transfers communication the way a message is sent and received two kinds of communication: intentional and accidental. Media connects our sense to the outside world - mcluhan; not metaphorically only but literal as well. We"re the only animal that smiles intentionally range of speech origin is between one hundred thousand - 2. 5 million years ago. Big range depends on definition of speech. Human speech can be simply grunts and noises. But what makes our speech very different from animal speech is syntax; syntax distinguished us from the others. Words is just a metaphor, means the same thing just represented differently via languages. Syntax allows speech to have a specific meaning. So human language with syntax started 100,000 years ago.
