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9 Cards in this Set
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Discreteness
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Language is composed of discrete units (sounds) that can be recombined to make words
- Human language - Less common in animals as signals sent are almost indivisible wholes |
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Displacement
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Ability to talk about things not immediately present
- Past, future, impossible |
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Productivity
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Ability to generate and understand novel/unique messages, never heard before
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Mode/Channel of Communication
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The means of sending a message
- air, light/space, chemical transferral |
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Semanticity
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Message or signal has meaning
E.g. animal call means a predator is approaching |
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Pragmatic Function
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Message or signal has a use
- E.g. message used to alert other to danger or to win a mate |
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Interchangeability
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Language is able to be sent and received: goes two ways
- Humans send and receive messages - In some species, only one sex can send out the mating signal |
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Cultural Transmission
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Information is learnt, or passed on, within a society or culture through experience/participation
i.e. not passed on biologically E.g. words in human language |
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Arbitrariness
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No inherent connection between the form of the word and its meaning
E.g. form of word 'water' and the object water itself have no connection |
