Hello teacher, this blog is created by Sara Julieth Arbélaez, Andrea Marcela Berrio and Jaider Arley Ramírez. In this page we are going to share the knowledge we have learnt during the classes and readings.
In our first class, we made a discussion about language and code.
- Language: Is the system of words that people use to communicate. Exist two language's requirements, one of them is that it must be infinitely creative, it means that we can create an unlimited number of sentences just using a set of words (This is because language is creative). The other is Arbitrary creative, is the relationship between a vocal symbol (form) and the entity, event, state or action (meaning) of the vocal symbol can't be proved. (There is no connection between the sound and the message)
- Code: Is an organized system of signs. Also, are the rules about how you combine signs, how signs relate to each other (signs can be words or images, but also behaviors, or concepts such as metaphors.)
Before defining those concepts we had a discussion about if animals communication was a language or a code and each person had the opportunity to show their pont of view.
The conclusion of that debate was that animals communicate through a code because:
- They use signs, sounds, gestures and movements but those symbols never changed.
- They can't add or create new words or new phrases (which is a requirement to be a language)
- Animal communication is innate.
- Animal communication is not arbitrary because an animal's message and the sound can't be separate.
- All languages have rules that guide how we can combine some parts of language. However, animals can combine it in any order and it will still have the same meaning.
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