P age |1 Janine Wiggill( Student No:30147794) Unit 1: Language as a process Assignment 02 Observe & Interview / Exploring language diversity where you live Task 1: Observe your community I live on a farm in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands. I spent three mornings on a building site observing three builders from the local community at work. (please refer to Image 1 below) IMAGE 1 “SPARAK ‚ HAMILTON AND SIMPHIWE ON A BUILDING SITE IN LIDGETTON‚ KZN MIDLANDS Prior to spending time observing the men‚ I
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socioeconomic status‚ which in the business industry is crucial. Variations in language therefore cause many social attitudes to arise and be utilised to discriminate others just on the way we speak which is what is occurring in the business world at the moment. Firms tend to hire people who speak in the same expected manner since ‘it is all about hiring ‘people like us’’‚ which further outlines one of the functions of language to separate ‘us’ from ‘them’ COURSE RELEVANCE: #accents #social attitudes
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Coyotecatl December 2‚ 2013 Anthropology We can all agree that language is a fundamental basic of being human. Language has been around for centuries‚ there are no primitive languages‚ and the documentary video"The Human Language"‚ talks about just that. It brings about the question on how language functions within each and every society. Its amazing how we as organisms create sound and body gestures to make words‚ by what we call "Language". I say body gestures‚ because although being non-verbal‚ it
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LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Have you ever tried to catch yourself thinking? You can try to think while remaining conscious of your thinking process. Try and see if you are always thinking using language and‚ if yes‚ try to see if your language in the thinking process is very clear‚ grammatical or unclear and messy. Suppose we believe we can’t think clearly without using language‚ what about those deaf and mute people? If they do not have a language‚ do they think without language or they do not think at
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The Cultural Function of Language Many animal and even plant species communicate with each other. Humans are not unique in this capability. However‚ human language is unique in being a symbolic communication system that is learned instead of biologically inherited. Culture is the set of shared patterns of behaviors and interactions‚ cognitive constructs‚ and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. These shared patterns identify the members of a culture group
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so-called dead language. Firstly‚ with the help of Latin and Ancient Greek it is possible to trace all sorts of words‚ ideas‚ forms of expression of European culture back to much earlier time. Secondly‚ Latin literature is deeply connected with Roman history‚ so studying and translating Latin literary works provide knowledge of a relevant historic period that influenced the history of the entire Europe. Thus‚ the study of Latin can widen your knowledge of History. Moreover‚ the dead languages are considered
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Language Paper PSY/360 Language Paper Language‚ though difficult to define is essential in understanding how people use it to explain what they need‚ feel‚ or want; it is how humans communicate. It is a special task that only humans can accomplish (Willingham‚ 2007). It is communicative‚ arbitrary in relationship between utterances and meaning‚ structured‚ dynamic‚ and lacks generativity (Willingham). Language consists of two main parts which are grammar and lexicon (Willingham). Grammar
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Body Language Whether we realize it or not body language is used in our day-to-day lives. Body language is a form of non-verbal communication consisting of body posture‚ gestures‚ and eye movements. Humans usually send and interpret such signals unconsciously. Every day we respond to some sort of non-verbal communication or give off some sort of non-verbal communication ourselves. Scientific research on nonverbal communication and behavior began in 1872 with the publication of Charles Darwin’s
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different definitions‚ the word written means language that can be traced onto paper and read‚ whereas the word spoken is language that can be expressed through speech and is generally heard once without the use of such things as recordings. Knowledge can be acquired from these two different types of language‚ in different ways depending on how a person learns and also which area of knowledge the language is being conveyed in. Written and spoken language are expressed in different ways and neither
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Today the professional language teacher has a good grounding in the various techniques and new approaches‚ and they know and understand the history and evolution of teaching methodologies. The modern teacher will in fact use a variety of methodologies and approaches‚ choosing techniques from each method that they consider effective and applying them according to the learning context and objectives. They prepare their lessons to facilitate the understanding of the new language being taught and do not
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