ACS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Speech Production, Proto-Germanic Language, Indo

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Dana Osborne

Document Summary

Acs 106 week 3: language and analogy; cognition, history, geography, variation and change. Iconicity and analogy: the case of the missing Lump; hump, stump, pump, bump, thump, clump, jump, trump, plump. Poetic -> ambiguity (cid:862)here it is sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g: ato(cid:373)s (cid:449)ith (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess; (cid:373)atter (cid:449)ith (cid:272)uriosity. Analogy: systematic resembla(cid:374)(cid:272)es the (cid:862)(cid:449)arp a(cid:374)d (cid:449)oof(cid:863) of la(cid:374)guage. Iconicity (cid:862)a gra(cid:373)(cid:373)ar is largely a syste(cid:373) of relatio(cid:374)s, a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)alogy is a relatio(cid:374) of si(cid:373)ilarity(cid:863) antilla. The (cid:272)ar i(cid:374) wester(cid:374) apa(cid:272)he fro(cid:374)t tire/ha(cid:374)d & ar(cid:373), (cid:271)a(cid:272)k tire/foot, (cid:271)a(cid:272)k of the (cid:272)ar/hip/(cid:271)utto(cid:272)k, hood/face, headlights/eyes. Mona lisa and monica lewisnky in the new yorker. Mcdonalds fry box, potato, cardboard, salt, grease, logo, photo, dimensions (size and shape), fries, 1 fry 2 fry 3 fry ect. fat, oil. Speech production always features slight differences from speaker to speaker and from place to place, at all levels of language. Sometimes the differences are very noticeable, but variant forms are usually still related iconically and analagoically.