Gender in language is ever present in modern society, from birth children male and female are treated differently. girls being positively enforced with words like 'good girl' and 'well done' whereas boys are expected to know how to act.
Women often speak politely and cooperatively to help the conversation flow.
Men speak more competitively, interrupting more often than not to say there piece.
3D - Deficient
- Different
- Dominance
2D - Competition
- Cooperation
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Language and power
There are two types of power in language, Instrumental power and influential power.
Influential - This type of power in language is used to persuade the listener/reader to come around to your point of view. Using positive reinforcement to make the reader feel important and in the right. persuasive Technics like using 'you' which is a pronoun make the text or speech directed at the audience. Influential power can be seen to be used in things like speeches from presidents and leaders.
Instrumental - This type power is primarily used by people of authority, like teachers who need to tell students what to do. The reason people use instrumental power is to get someone to do something they want to be done. Instrumental power can be seen to be used by police who have power because they have power in law.
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Links to language stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZatrvNDOiE&feature=related
This is a link to a video about language acquisition- focuses around Deb Roy a cognitive scientist who did the speech home project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaqD9FVRsM&feature=relmfu
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around why animals can't talk but we humans can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oimnxkEj4ns&feature=relmfu
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around what parts of the brain do during speech.
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around why animals can't talk but we humans can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oimnxkEj4ns&feature=relmfu
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around what parts of the brain do during speech.
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around the an autistic man who 'collects languages.
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around the forbidden experiment done on birds.
This is a link to a video about language acquisition - Focuses around an experiment preformed where a new language was made from gibberish over an afternoon.
Monday, 8 September 2014
Horizon
Notes taken from Horizon documentary - English Language - 4/9/14
How we speak - Child language acquisition CLA
Language defines us as humans, it allows us to express ourselves
Children learn language with minimal effort, learning it naturally
Nature vs Nurture
Babies understand nouns and not grammar
How learn to speak is still a mystery
Dr Deb Roy - cognitive scientist conducted the speech home project on his daughter from birth to the age of 3 monitoring her speech
Babble to single word to two words
How we talk to children affects how they learn positive reinforcement will encourage learning I.E. good job.... well done
Parents simplify heir speech so it's easier to understand, elongating spaces between words
Convergence to be at the same level - Parentese
Intonation of speech phonologically out ways the grammatical
An average 5 year old will know over 5,000 words
Determiners - this one, that one, that is a
We learn on average 3,00 words a year
Larynx in humans is lower than in animals allowing us the ability of speech
Different parts of the brain do different things during speech
Babies listen in the womb to their mother, allowing them to recognize their mother after birth
We have an innate ability to learn language when we are young
Noam Chomsky - the godfather of linguistics
Chomskys' LAD
Forbidden experiment, a child left alone in a room and brought up with no language interaction
KE family lack a certain gene allowing them to speak properly, 15 out of 30 suffer from this
parts of chromosome 7 where broken and replaced by faulty genes.
Scientists no know that the FOX - P - 2 is responsible for our ability to talk, supporting the cognitive theory - Chomsky LAD critical acquisition
Language develops unconsciously, happening over a long period of time
How we speak - Child language acquisition CLA
Language defines us as humans, it allows us to express ourselves
Children learn language with minimal effort, learning it naturally
Nature vs Nurture
Babies understand nouns and not grammar
How learn to speak is still a mystery
Dr Deb Roy - cognitive scientist conducted the speech home project on his daughter from birth to the age of 3 monitoring her speech
Babble to single word to two words
How we talk to children affects how they learn positive reinforcement will encourage learning I.E. good job.... well done
Parents simplify heir speech so it's easier to understand, elongating spaces between words
Convergence to be at the same level - Parentese
Intonation of speech phonologically out ways the grammatical
An average 5 year old will know over 5,000 words
Determiners - this one, that one, that is a
We learn on average 3,00 words a year
Larynx in humans is lower than in animals allowing us the ability of speech
Different parts of the brain do different things during speech
Babies listen in the womb to their mother, allowing them to recognize their mother after birth
We have an innate ability to learn language when we are young
Noam Chomsky - the godfather of linguistics
Chomskys' LAD
Forbidden experiment, a child left alone in a room and brought up with no language interaction
KE family lack a certain gene allowing them to speak properly, 15 out of 30 suffer from this
parts of chromosome 7 where broken and replaced by faulty genes.
Scientists no know that the FOX - P - 2 is responsible for our ability to talk, supporting the cognitive theory - Chomsky LAD critical acquisition
Language develops unconsciously, happening over a long period of time
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