intro to the course
intro to human language and word meaning
language is an uncertain, evolved system
we use language not for the information functions but for the social functions
language is the only way people learn
language is the whole thing that make human invincible, making it different from chimpanzee
another important tool Is writing
If we think of language as the information transformer in human-networks, the bond width is very shallow in comparison to the one in computer network. However, we can convey much more language than its apparent, because their is a lot of knowledge in all human minds as a background.
word meaning : denotation semantics