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Dropping Form. SBCD July, 2010 Lancaster, PA. Do animals think? Do animals communicate? Do animals have/use language? (bees, dolphins, apes) What is the difference between human language and animal sign behavior? Do humans think without language? Story exercise.
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Dropping Form SBCD July, 2010 Lancaster, PA
Do animals think? • Do animals communicate? • Do animals have/use language? (bees, dolphins, apes) • What is the difference between human language and animal sign behavior? • Do humans think without language? • Story exercise
Chomsky’s “Deep Structure” • Eggs and eggshells • Interpreting process • Homonyms • ?Quehace un pez? • POETRY and #POETRY • Rhythm and rhyme
Go for meaning! • What about idioms? Puns? Metaphors? • “Upper crust” • “Kill two birds with one stone”
Characteristics of a Clear Interpretation • Message equivalence • Target language • Illocutionary force • Use of space • Sentence boundaries • Fingerspelling & numbers • Sign parameters • Sign choice • Affect • Mouthing • Process time • Poise