For over half a century the Grammys has annually congratulated artists in the music industry for their achievements in performing and songwriting. Every year since 1959 they would vote and nominate various artists from different categories to celebrate their success for that year. The nominees would be the artists who made the biggest sales in the months of October the previous year and September of that year. The actual event is held during February of every year. For 2017 it was held in the Staples Center in Los Angeles with Michael Cordan hosting for the first time. I thought this would be interesting to use a video about the event of the Grammys to describe Hayakawa's work though it.
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Hollywiretv from youtube did a video on the Top 10 Must see moments from the grammys (2017). The video is about seven minutes long and only tells us about highlights that happened in the event. From Hayakawa's book Language in Thought he talks about how semantics is important to our society because “language, that is to say, makes progress possible.” (7) meaning without it we would not be able to communicate. In our time now, we have the internet to gain reports from unknown. By creating maps and territories about events and subjects we do not know about or have even attended. In chapter 2, he talks about Inferences, Reports and Judgements. With this video, it shows a lot of great examples that can relate to what is being said in that chapter. Like with variability and judgments, the reporter is making judgments that some of the performers are the best of the best saying “not only was her performance the most insane”... “only beyonce can pull that off”. By making a statement like that she is judging the performance to be a fact and having the “speaker's approval” (25). The only variability they have is from the videos they watched about the grammys and from the people they sent to the ceremony. Their first hand sources are our second hand sources.. What are judgements? Hayakawa states the a “judgment is a conclusion, evaluating a number of
Since the grammys consist of voting and winning here …show more content…
Hollywiretv from youtube did a video on the Top 10 Must see moments from the grammys (2017). The video is about seven minutes long and only tells us about highlights that happened in the event. From Hayakawa's book Language in Thought he talks about how semantics is important to our society because “language, that is to say, makes progress possible.” (7) meaning without it we would not be able to communicate. In our time now, we have the internet to gain reports from unknown. By creating maps and territories about events and subjects we do not know about or have even attended. In chapter 2, he talks about Inferences, Reports and Judgements. With this video, it shows a lot of great examples that can relate to what is being said in that chapter. Like with variability and judgments, the reporter is making judgments that some of the performers are the best of the best saying “not only was her performance the most insane”... “only beyonce can pull that off”. By making a statement like that she is judging the performance to be a fact and having the “speaker's approval” (25). The only variability they have is from the videos they watched about the grammys and from the people they sent to the ceremony. Their first hand sources are our second hand sources.. What are judgements? Hayakawa states the a “judgment is a conclusion, evaluating a number of