How do we Communicate?

Question 1

how do we communicate? (anthro)

Answer 1

• linguistics (how speech has evolved over years)
• larynx and a lowered voice box developed around 300,000 years ago
• language evolved from body gestures

Question 2

beginnings of written language (5000 years ago) stage - 1

Answer 2

writing with pictures (pictography)

Question 3

beginnings of written language (5000 years ago) stage - 2

Answer 3

symbols (ideography)

Question 4

beginnings of written language (5000 years ago) stage - 3

Answer 4

sound symbols (phonography)
- symbols were chosen and linked with the sound of a word - phonics

Question 5

how do we communicate? (psych)

Answer 5

focus on how children acquire and manipulate language that includes:
1: the steps children go through in order to learn how to speak
2: the significance of nurturing which allows humans to fully develop their language skills

Question 6

how do we communicate? (socio)

Answer 6

androcentric language: for decades we used the masculine from of words to apply to both genders

• as women entered more male dominated occupations, words changes to be more inclusive
• there are 6000 languages around the world, 90% will die out

Question 7

new languages technology

Answer 7

spanglish: combo of english and spanish
ebonics: means ‘black sounds’, African language used by African Americans that is not a dialect of english

Question 8

barriers to effective communication

Answer 8

• people often use unnecessary words
• use of jargon (kind of speech full of unfamiliar and uncommon words)
  emotionalism: tendency to display emotion to readily