[LING 1000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Rosario Gomez

Document Summary

Semiotics: process whereby signs communicate meaning to individuals and allow they to understand the world around them and how it works. Gestures: non-verbal communication made with a part of the body; used instead of verbal communication (or in combination with it) Language in relation to other aspects of semiotics. Auditory-vocal: speech, physiological reflexes, voice quality. Visual: sign languages, writing, kinetics, body language. Tactile: deaf-blind language, secret codes, proxemics, body language. One finger up: be quiet, to emphasize importance of what you are about to say, to indicate that you are going to reprimand someone (wave your finger back and forth) Different gestures across culture to mean to same thing. Some ambiguous gestures: ok, sign for victory, thumbs up. Gesture for (cid:862)yes(cid:863) and (cid:862)no(cid:863): diff. in diff. cultures. Only physiological responses are universal, gestures are cultural-dependent. Identification of linguistic feature: hypothesis, corpus collected from the community, analysis, conclusion, further study. Attribute that distinguishes humans from other animals.