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Introduction To Linguistic

Human and animal communication differ in important ways. Human language involves displacement, structure, and creativity allowing for infinite new sentences, while animal communication is automatic and involuntary. Humans communicate for a variety of complex social purposes, whereas animal communication is limited to stereotypical purposes like signaling territory, food, danger or the presence of other animals. While some animals can be taught human-like languages, these do not serve the same complex purposes as natural human language.

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Introduction To Linguistic

Human and animal communication differ in important ways. Human language involves displacement, structure, and creativity allowing for infinite new sentences, while animal communication is automatic and involuntary. Humans communicate for a variety of complex social purposes, whereas animal communication is limited to stereotypical purposes like signaling territory, food, danger or the presence of other animals. While some animals can be taught human-like languages, these do not serve the same complex purposes as natural human language.

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INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC QUESTION 2.

1 NATURE AND FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE


NAZRATUL FAREHA BT. HAIRUL SALLEH 921002-05-5002 TESL 1 PISMP SEM 1

Is

the tool of human communication either using spoken or written words. Language is an elusive and composite instrument used to communicate an incredible number of different things (Cline, n.d.). Communication is a process of transferring information from one individual to the other one (The Basics: What is Communication?, 2009). Consists four basic components -the sender -the message -the medium -the receiver

What is language and communication?

WHAT IS HUMAN LANGUAGE?


Displacement, semantic, structure dependence and creativity. Has form and meaning - Able to combine sounds, gestures, letters and written words that will form structure with certain significance and meaning. Creative -Human can produce an infinite number of new sentences which have never before been spoken using language itself and it is understood (Contrasting Human Language With Animal Communication, 2006). - Can lie and joke and even talk about things that do not make sense.

WHAT IS ANIMAL COMMUNICATION?

Can

be varied, ranging from vocalisms to behavioral gestures and movements. Have other ways of communicating as they might not able to speak or master advanced language techniques. They need to react quickly to signals given out by other animals thus they have well developed nervous systems.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE TWO MODES OF COMMUNICATIONS BY PURPOSES


Animal communication is automatic and involuntary than human Human communicate in varieties of purposes but animals communicate for stereotype things

Animal that communicate using human like languages that have been taught to them contain no purposes.

Animal communication is automatic and involuntary than human


Animal communication does not involve the standard human language and is always automatic and involuntary than human. This means that animal communicate without thinking about anything. They communicate about things that happen at that particular time.

Human communicate in varieties of purposes but animals communicate for stereotype things
Language

and communication are interrelated. Important for social interaction, enabling business and interpersonal relationships, as well as teaching and learning. Important because it allows people to create and have new words for a changing society, like "Internet," according to Palomar College (Mitchell, n.d.).

Purpose-sexual interaction and competition in which one formed the principal focus of interest, but they also have other stereotype purposes than human (Finnegan, 2002). Such as to convey messages like territorial boundaries, information about outside object or activity such as food, danger or friends approaching.

Animal that communicate using human like languages that have been taught to them contain no purposes.
The

human like languages that have been taught in animals are totally different than human language and animal language or animal communication system. This is because human like languages that have been taught in animals have their limitation in acquiring the languages.

CONCLUSION
As the conclusion, we can see the differences between human and animal communication in terms of their ability, their purposes and the way they communicate with each other. Animals have their own language but no the same as human language yet they still communicate with language for purposes.

REFERENCES
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The Basics: What is Communication? (2009). Retrieved February 25, 2012, from http://www.people-communicating.com/what-is-communication.html
What is language and linguistics? (2009, August 31). Retrieved February 25, 2012, from University of Aberdeen: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/langling/whatis.shtml Burchill, S. (2012). How Animals Communicate. Retrieved February 26, 2012, from The Open Door Web Site: http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0068.html Cline, A. (n.d.). Language, Meaning, and Communication. Retrieved February 25, 2012, from theism.about.com/od/criticalthinking/a/language.htm Dave. (2007, January 1). What is language? Retrieved 2 25, 2012, from Communication Nation: ommunicationnation.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-is-language.html Finnegan, R. (2002). Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection. New York: Routledge.

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