Tema 1 1.1What is communication and what is language?

Language operations

________ depend on an understanding of the internal structure of a sentence, rather than on the number of elements involved.

Phonemes

________ can be placed in distinct categories which differentiate them.

Rapid Fading

________: Wave forms of human language dissipate over time, do not persist.

Human language

________ can be heard if it is within range of another persons auditory channel and to determine the source of a sound.

element of unexpectedness

It is the ________ and unpredictability what makes communication what it is and the reason why it is hard to teach students to communicate by conventional teaching methods.

Human beings

________ use language to communicate but the exchange and negotiation of meaning may be achieved through either verbal and non- verbal symbols, oral or written models and production and comprehension processes.

Human language sounds

________ are specialized for communication.

Communication

________ is defined as exchange of ideas, information, between 2 or more individuals through a common system of symbols.

Human communication

________ takes place through oral and written language, but it can also take place through visual, tactile, sound, or olfactory means.

Human language

________ is acquired and transmitted by a long process.

In an act of communication there is at least one speaker, message, and a person

people to whom message is intended

From the big set of language definitions, we can point out

"Language is the institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually used oral-auditory symbols" (R.A. Hall, 1964)

Rapid Fading

Wave forms of human language dissipate over time, do not persist