Tiffany, i also found mental image to be an interesting topuc during this weeks reading. Its a crazy concept to make an image in your head just based off of one word. Great post!
While many of the topics were interesting throughout this week’s reading, one of the ones I found most interesting was ‘Mental Images’. While exploring the reading, I came to find that people can picture the mea […]
While I don’t recall having a specific speech issue growing up, I’m starting to learn a few tendencies from my 2 year nephew. Instead of him saying “Aunt Jessie” he says Aunt Jethie”. Another thing he seems t […]
While going over my class readings and in class discussion notes, I learned several things about descriptivism and prescriptivism. Descriptivism is an approach that is used by linguists which studies language and […]
Throughout history, we have seen the turning point of language/communication in many ways. Primal humans have used many different languages throughout a time period whether it was body language or nonverbal […]
what i hope to learn in this class is the history of language, as well as how it was spoken back then. I’m also intrigued on learning linguistics since i’ve never taken the class before.
