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What is language?. What does this mean?. How do we distinguish between language and non language?. Language is rule governed Language is intended Language is creative and open ended. Language is rule governed. Examples of rules……….. Grammar - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What is language?
What does this mean?
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How do we distinguish between language and non language?
• Language is rule governed• Language is intended• Language is creative and open
ended
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Language is rule governed
Examples of rules………..
• Grammar• Doesn’t matter what rules are so long as
everyone follows them.
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Language is creative and open-ended
• The rules of grammar and vocabulary allow us to make an almost infinite number of grammatically correct sentences
• New words being invested all the time
• Think of newly invented wordsladettes text bumsters metrosexual
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The problem of meaning….The montillation of traxoline
It is very important that you learn about Traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of Zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristerate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it into quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our most lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge.
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The problem of meaning….The montillation of traxoline
It is very important that you learn about Traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of Zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristerate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it into quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our most lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge.
1. What is traxoline?2. Where is traxoline montilled?3. How is traxoline quaselled?4. Why is it important to know about traxoline?
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• You can answer the questions although you have no idea what the words mean!!
• If you don’t know the meaning of key words in a sentence you will not understand it.
• Traxoline is a new form of Zionter – do we know this is true?
Important because you must know what a sentence means before you can decide whether or not it is true.
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Theories of Meaning
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Definition theory
Define as precisely as you can the following 3 words
i. Triangle ii. Table iii. Love
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Problems!
• Only mathematical words can be definded precisely
• Definitions depend on using other words!• In order to stop being trapped in an
endless circle of words, language must surely connect with the world.
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Denotation theory
• A meaningful words “stands” for something, whereas a meaningless word does not
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France
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Jabberwocky
Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borograoves’And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Problems
• Can you think of words which would be difficult to define by finding something they “stand for”?
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Problems
• Can you think of words which would be difficult to define by finding something they “stand for”?
• Multiplication, freedom, wisdom?
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Problems!
• Denotation theory does not work with abstract words
• Even a word like “Einstein” cannot literally be Einstein because it would become meaningless when he died.
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Image Theory
• The meaning of a word is the mental image it stands for
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Freedom
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Multiplication
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Red
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England
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Physics
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Love
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Problems!
• We can never be sure that a person understands the meaning of a word the same we do if they may have a different “image” in their mind
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Meaning as know-how
• You know the meaning of a word when you know how to use it correctly
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Problematic meaning
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1. Vagueness
Without thinking too much, write down a figure for the following;
1.John lives near school. How close does he live?
2.Janet is a heavy smoker. How many cigarettes a day does she smoke?
3.Mr Smith is middle- aged. How old is he?4.Nafisha’s mother is rich. How much money
does she have in the bank?
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Bald?
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2. Ambiguity
Flying planes can be dangerous
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Ambiguity
They saw Mrs Jones and a dog sitting under a table
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Ambiguity
Bob tickled the man with a feather duster
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Ambiguity
Refuse to be put in the basket
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Ambiguity
Mia wanted to hear Justin Bieber sing really badly
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Ambiguity
Visiting relatives can be boring
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Ambiguity
Many poor students are on scholarships
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Ambiguity
• Michael ate bacon on the sofa
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Ambiguity
As Imran came in to bowl I saw her duck
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Ambiguity
I am opposed to taxes which damage incentives
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Context helps
They saw Mrs Jones and a dog sitting under a table
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3. Secondary meaning
• Connotations and euphemisms
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First lady or “Presidential partner”?
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First man?
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Slender, skinny, thin
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Stubborn, steadfast, firm
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Praise, flatter, commend
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Energetic, spirited, frenzied
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Stench, smell, fragrance
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Think of as many different words as you can for;
Vomit
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Think of as many different words as you can for;
Drunk
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Think of as many different words as you can for;
Stupid
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4. Metaphor
Azri has his head in the clouds
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Emma has put her roots down in houston
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My brother is a butcher
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My dentist is a butcher
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Explain the following;
“No man is an island” (John Donne, 1572-1631)
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Explain the following;
“No man is a banana” (Richard van de Lagemaat 1958-)
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Fly and swim?
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Translation
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A world language?
What would be the advantages and disadvantages if everyone in the world spoke the same language?
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“Who does not know another language does not know his own” Goethe
What can you learn about your own language by studying another? How does learning another language increase your knowledge of the world?
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Idioms
A colloquial expression that can’t be worked out from the meanings of the words
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Idioms
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Idioms
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Idioms
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