The bottom line: Language is an oral thing.
Human's only had writing for 10,000 years
Writing and Reading are extensions of language, and therefore secondary to oral language
Writing is an extension of memory.
Illiterate people have an advantage to memory
Act of Communication
speaker - intention- message - receiver
Almost always there are gestures to reinforce what people say
pragmatics - meaning involved beyond the meaning
semantics - meaning of the specific words
grammar is the way of describing the functions of words to one another but it doesn't necessarily convey their meaning
~50-60% of the speech act is non-verbal
cultural gesture:
the "A-OK" hand gesture is not the same in S. America.
Arab proverb "if you can not smell a man's breathe, you can not trust him."
Word choice and intonation are different for men and women
Women can switch between hemispheres of the brain more than men.
people becomes victims of their tools
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