ANT253H1 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Italian Language, Marcel Danesi, Grammar
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De-centre language (brings back images, movement of expressionism and anti-linguist beliefs) Buddhist meditation looks to feel inwards by eliminating language. Philosophers look at it as a form of understanding. P nini was a mathematician who took poems and said that the way we understand them is through the bits and pieces of words which, when connected together, create the whole. Logos = greek work for word and thought . Concept each language is used to solve universal problems of knowledge and of social organization. Each language develops words/terms that they need based on their situations (such as first world countries" languages having words like facebook and. The biosphere is put at risk when speeches die. If language die, we are shrinking our world base (we are the lesser for it) It is a pipe dream that everyone would learn english.
