TaK - Language “In the beginning was the Word...”

TaK - Language “If you can’t say it, you don’t know it” Hans Reichenbach “How often misused words generate misleading thoughts” Herbert Spencer

TaK - Language What could you know about the world if you had no language or means of communicating with other people?

TaK - Language Language is a subset of Communication - but not all communication is language. What else is there? Communication Spoken/Written Language Body Language Symbols Arts ? Maths Models

TaK - Language Pablo PicassoFrancis Bacon Communication - Arts A picture is worth a thousand words…?

TaK - Language Communication - Body Language

TaK - Language Communication - Body Language

Body Language - examples Hands on knees: indicates readiness. Hands on hips: indicates impatience or possibly the person is angry Lock your hands behind your back: indicates self-control. Locked hands behind head: states confidence. Sitting with a leg over the arm of the chair: suggests indifference. Legs and feet pointed in a particular direction: the direction where more interest is felt Crossed arms: indicates submissiveness. Body language is a form of non-verbal communication involving the use of stylized gestures, postures, and physiologic signs which act as cues to other people. Humans, sometimes unconsciously, send and receive non-verbal signals all the time. Perhaps 70% of communication is non-verbal TaK - Language

1) What can body language communicate more effectively than spoken language? 2) What can spoken language communicate more effectively than body language?

TaK - Language Communication -The Language of Clothes

TaK - Language Communication -The Language of Clothes

TaK - Language Communication - Symbols

TaK - Language Communication - Symbols

TaK - Language Communication - Symbols

TaK - Language Words are symbols … this word represents that thing Tree =

TaK - Language What do we mean by ‘Language’? Language is rule-governed. Language is intended. Language is creative and open-ended.

TaK - Language Rule-governed: Grammar Rules Accepted vocabulary Needs social agreement

TaK - Language there were six people injured lying at the side of the road Make a coherent sentence using all 12 words:

The Montillation of Traxoline by Judy Lanier “It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristeriate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it into quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our most lukized snezlaus in the future because of zionter lescelidge” 1)What is traxoline? 2)Where is traxoline montilled? 3)How is traxoline quaselled? 4)Why is it important to know about traxoline? TaK - Language

Write a sentence describing what is happening in these two pictures:

TaK - Language Intended: Language is a form of communication, but not all communication is language o You are bored in class, you catch someone’s eye and make a yawning gesture o You are trying to look interested in what someone is saying but find yourself starting to yawn.

TaK - Language Creative and open-ended: You can write or speak a sentence that has never before appeared in the English language...

TaK - Language Language enables us to communicate new information, to learn about people and places and ideas we have never encountered before…... but to what extent should we trust it?

TaK - Language In groups, define – A triangle A table Love

TaK - Language Pass along a message......

TaK - Language There is an element of translation in every communication. A sends a message to B. B receives the message and interprets it. Misunderstanding takes place.

TaK - Language Why is it so difficult to communicate effectively?

TaK - Language Some of the reasons... Most of the message we communicate is non- verbal. The words we use are vague, imprecise, and can be interpreted in different ways. We may have a “hidden agenda” that is not mutually understood. In this community, we all have different language histories and experiences – verbal and non-verbal! This contributes to the “problem” of communication.