Psychology 2134A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Textbook

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Olessia Jouravlev

Document Summary

There are many steps involved in communicating with someone. We need an articulatory apparatus that enables us to make the right sort of sounds. We also need a brain to decide what to say, how to say it, and to make the compone. We also need a language complex enough to convey any possible message. We also need to know the words and how to put the words in the right order. Finally, we have to be aware of the social setting in which we produce and understan idea of how they will interpret our utterances. Language is considered to be an essential part of what it means to be human and sets us ap. Our culture and technology depends on it as well. The primary purpose of language is to communicate, but we can also use it simply to expre record facts, to think with, to play with it, and to express identity.