language
Design Features
Arbitrariness
the sound of morpheme and its meanings
arbitrariness and conwention
Functions
Two person
Jakobson
referentialpoetic、emotive、conative、phatic、metalingual
six key elements of communication
context、message、addresser、addressee、contact、code
linguistics
Macrolinguistics
Computational Linguistics(计算语言学)
Important Distinctions in Linguistics
Descriptive vs. Prescription(分类VS约定俗成)
Synchronic vs. Dachronic(共时的VS历时的)
Competence & Performance(能力&运用)
the science of language/ the scientific study of language
the most powerful uses of language
change the social status of person
the most important socialogical use of language
People imitated the sounds of animal calls
Language is a system oa arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.