LINGUIS 100 1st Edition Lecture 2 Communicative Signals vs Informative Signals Unintentional Informative Signals someone listening to you may become informed about you through a number of signals not intentionally sent Whereas communicative signals are generally thought to be intentional or something that a person wants to convey to another by way of speech We think of communication as primary function of human language but it is not distinguishing feature of it Why is this Because all creatures communicate but they are not able to think about or reflect on the way they are doing so whereas humans are Then we can say that Reflexivity is what distinguishing our language as humans from other languages of the world i e animal and computer Reflexivity accounts for the fact that we can use language on the behalf of thinking about itself No other living thing or non living thing on earth to the best of our knowledge can do this reflect on something by using that same something as an instrument of doing so Key Terms Reflexivity think about language Displacement past and future Arbitrariness form isn t related to meaning Productivity open endedness Cultural transmission learn the language of exposure Duality language made up of sounds meaning How does Language Work We know that grammar consists of the parts of the language we are speaking But now we must break down the parts 1 sounds phonology These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 2 words morphology 3 sentences syntax phonology the study of sound morphology order of words and study of parts of words syntax parts and order of a sentence Examples of wrongful use of one of the above three There are l vely cats on Vliet Street This is an example of wrong phonology There lovely cats on Vliet Street are This is an example of wrong syntax There are lovely catren on Vliet Street This is an example of wrong morphology There are lovely ctas on Vliet Street This is an example of wrong phonology
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