EDRD 2020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pragmatics, Determinism, Morpheme

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 2020
• Professor: Marianne Staempfli

Document Summary

Unit 2 chapter 4: verbal competence language and meaning. Language is a digital code, non-verbal is classified as analogic. Analogic codes: indicate meaning by being similar to what they convey: ex: actors movements, lines in a drawing, movement of a shadow, best at conveying relationships and immediate emotional states. Digital codes: conveyed symbolically: symbols: units of meaning that are arbitrary (because artificial) and conventional (because based on social agreement, digital codes are useful for more abstract, logical meaning. The characteristics of the verbal code: verbal codes consist of discrete separable units. Words and sounds can be modified, combined in unique ways, and transmitted increasingly or in combination across time and space: language encourages us to create new realities. Allows us to talk about absent or non-existent things: language gives us the ability to think in new and more complex ways. Allows the development of complex philosophical and mathematical systems: verbal codes are self reflexive.