GRRR What can I do for you? intentional l unintentional
What is language? What is NOT language? Language is system of conventional spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other. A language both reflects and affects a culture’s way of thinking, and changes in a culture influence the development of its language
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, wherein the definition of language is: A systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings” (Davis, 8).
PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE REFLEXIVITY Use the language to think and talk about the language itself.
displacement Talk about things or events not present in the inmediate environment. TIME AND PLACE