GBIO 106 Chapter : Chapter 6
15 Mar 2019
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Informative signals: ones that may be inferred, if someone sneezes you think cold, strange accent so from somewhere else. Communicative signals: what you literally tell someone, a blackbird squawking when a cat comes close. Reflexivity: the fact that we can use language to think and talk about language itself, making it one of the distinguishing features of human language. Displacement: allows language users to talk about things and events not present in the immediate environment. And talk about things that we are not even sure of ex: heaven, ghosts, fairies. moment- they lack displacement. Bees have a sort of displacement but it is a limited type. When telling about a food source it must be the most recent source not one from last week or a future source. Arbitrariness: aspect of the relationship between linguistic signs and objects in the world.
