IS LANGUAGE UNIQUE TO THE HUMAN SPECIES? by Ulla Hedeager INTRODUCTION The assertion that humans differ from animals in their use of language has been the subject of much discussion as scientists have investigated language use by non-human species. Researchers have taught apes‚ dolphins‚ and parrots various systems of human-like communication‚ and recently‚ the study of animal language and behaviour in its natural environment rather than in the laboratory has increased. It is my aim to discuss human
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hearer. Misunderstanding occurred in these comic series causes various emotional effects to the hearer involved in the conversation. The hearer might feel happy‚ impressed‚ embarrassed‚ or even proud of what the speaker conveys through his/ her utterance. It depends on the face wants used and intended between the participants in the conversation. According to Goffman in Brown and Levinson (1987)‚ “face is something that is emotionally invested‚ and that can be lost‚ maintained‚ or enhanced‚ and must
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allows McIntyre to overhears his conversation and then relay it to other people as a comedy sketch‚ using his lexical choices. There are different types grammar that are used throughout this transcript‚ firstly looking at the structure of the utterances‚ at the start of the transcript McIntyre uses
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acquisition is among the main topics that intrigued psychologists‚ linguists and philosophers over time. In their efforts to define this complex phenomena‚ researchers have kept records of how children in advance from babbling‚ to words‚ to complex utterances. Since the 1960s‚ they have paid deep attention to the acquisition of different languages (SLOBIN 1985-19991) and the stages children go through. Children’s exposure to two languages often from their families or from the community they belong to
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to denote actions; for example: I name this ship the King George. Whereas‚ the sentence I drive a red car is a constative one. Constatives can be tested whether they are true or false‚ a phenomenon that does not occur in perfomantives because the utterance I name this ship the King George do not make statement‚ therefore it can not be treated as being true or false. This sentence is best interpreted as performing an action‚ thus a useful test for performative verbs is the insertion of the adverb hereby
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McTaggart on the Unreality of Time Leibniz emphasised the similarity between time and space. The differences are striking‚ however‚ since time‚ unlike space‚ seems to have a direction: events seem to ‘move’ in time from the past into the present and into the future. But what does it really mean to say that events ‘move in time’? It seems rather too metaphorical to talk in these terms: an event cannot move in time in the sense in which a person can move in space. Perhaps we should say that time
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Lecture Intonation in English Outline 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. 2. Components of intonation and the structure of English tone-group. 3. Sentence stress. 4. Rhythm. 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. Intonation is a language universal. There are no languages which are spoken without any change of prosodic parameters but intonation functions in various languages in a different way. What is the role intonation plays in the language? Intonation
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CCAAPTT Text A is a transcript that comes from a popular television chat chow ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’. The interview is between Jeremy Kyle and Andrew‚ a 22 year old man that has been accused of cheating on his wife. The show has a direct audience of the studio crowd but it has been televised for predominantly female viewers at home in the daytime. The show entertains its audience by revealing the personal problems of guests on the show whilst Jeremy Kyle councils them. The text is quite confrontational
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THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH IN TEACHING ENGLISH SEAKING CLASS Introduction As an international language‚ at the present day‚ English has been used and learnt by the people all over the world‚ include by Indonesian students. Based on the history‚ English is main language which is used in Britain‚ USA‚ and many others foreign countries‚ where it differs in grammatical‚ vocabularies‚ and pronunciation. Besides that‚ there are many words in English which is derived from
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meanings just from one utterance‚ on the other words‚ the meaning of one utterance is varied. There are also interlocutors in pragmatic. They are speaker and listener. These interlocutors must communicate well with cooperative principle. The cooperative principle allows us speaking to someone showing our cooperation. This cooperation impacts to the dialogue so that the communication can run sustainably. There is an L-I-P theory in pragmatic. - Locutionary the utterance that we hear - Illocutionary
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