How Effective is Spoken Language?

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How much of your knowledge comes to you through spoken language?

image source: http://hal9k.dk/projects/ethernet-over-tincans

You and a partner sit like this

Decide who will face the screen (the describer) and who will face the other way (the blind)

Look at the following image. Use spoken language to help your “blind” partner to draw

the image.

Switch roles and try this next one

Switch roles and try this next one

source: http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/ru/index.html

•To what extent was spoken language effective in communicating knowledge in this exercise?

•What if any Problems of Language did you have? •Were any words unknown to you?

•You described images. Is language better suited to express other types of knowledge?

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