LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nation Language, Onomatopoeia, Celtic Languages
18 Sep 2016
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Semiotics: the process whereby signs communicate meaning to individuals and allow them to understand the world around them and how it works. Telling people what we want, what we need. Gestures: non-verbal communication made with a part of the body; used instead of verbal communication (or in combination with it). Auditory vocal: speech, physiological reflexes, voice quality. Visual: sign languages, writing, kinesics -> body language. Tactile: deaf blind, secret codes, proxemics -> body language. Different gestures across culture mean the same thing. Some ambiguous gestures: ok, sign for victory, thumbs up. The act of smiling is the same but the interpretations are different. Have a relationship of some kind here, other places where men held hands just as friends, hold hands because safer in group. Only physiological responses are universal, gestures are culture-dependent. Scientific, objective: hypothesis > corpus > analysis > conclusion. Have a conscious way of thinking, more informal with friends, formal with a future boss.
