CMST 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Philosophy, Barack Obama, Linguistics
22 Apr 2018
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What is language: definition: a collection of symbols, governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals (ars, p. 86, symbols, rules, meaningful messages, language is symbolic. Phonological rules: how words sound when pronounced. Syntactic rules: control the structure of the language the way symbols can be arranged. Semantic rules: deal with the meanings of specific words. Pragmatic rules: how people use language in everyday interaction. Syntactic rules: govern the structure of the language, english language syntax, subject, verb an object, can vary within the language. !2: different rules and pronunciation, quebec, newfoundland- allan hawco, geekspeak/emoji-talk, sup. 4yeo. Semantic rules: helps us understand the meaning of specific words, without semantic rules- communications is virtually impossible and unintelligible. Misunderstood/ misinterpreted: police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers, prostitutes appeal to pope, new study of obesity looks for the larger test group. The power of language: language shapes attitudes, naming:
