ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Abjad, Phoneme, Devanagari
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Language: a complex system relating sound ad meaning. Pictures: multivocal, more specific than language and writing. Numbers: not a part of the writing system but they are a communication system, number communication exists in many different languages, incomplete systems, numbers are not related to spoken words and exist independently from language. Writing: system of signs or symbols or graphic representations, that represent linguistic speech. Writing is defined as a conventionally accepted system of visible marks, that represent elements of a corresponding spoken language. Uses arbitrary signs, no required similarity between the sign and what it stands for. Makes use of the visual rather than the oral channel. Verbal speech is primary, writing is secondary. Is built on a preexisting ability to speak. Phonetic: graphic signs that stand for the sound of language, more noun based. Semantic signs: graphic marks that extend the meaning of the sign, more action based.
