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Chapter 6 Words and Meaning

Language is so fundamental to our being that it is hardly possible to image life without it. It is so tightly woven into our human experience that anywhere on earth where two or more people gather together they likely will be communicating in some way.A different language is a different view of li

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Chapter 6 Words and Meaning

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    1. Chapter 6 Words and Meaning Language and Culture

    2. Language is so fundamental to our being that it is hardly possible to image life without it. It is so tightly woven into our human experience that anywhere on earth where two or more people gather together they likely will be communicating in some way. A different language is a different view of life.

    3. Chapter 6: Language & Culture Language is the primary means of interactions between people. Speakers use language to convey their thoughts, feelings, intentions, and desires to others. Language links interlocutors in a dynamic, reflexive process. We learn about people through what they say and how they say it; we learn about ourselves through the ways that other people react to what we say; and we learn about our relationships with others through the give-and-take of communicative interactions--Bonvillain

    4. Language is distinctly human; it is a faculty that separates us from other species of animals. “…the gift of language is the single human trait that makes us unique, setting us apart from the rest of life. Language is like nest building or hive making, the universal and biologically specific activity of human beings. We engange in it communally, compulsively, and automatically. We cannot be human without it; if we were to be separated from it our minds would die, as surely as bees lost from the hive.”

    5. Do Animals have language? Do they communicate? What kind of communication do they have, if any? How is it different from human language and communication?

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