Topic 1: What Language isn't...

Communication -- What it is, and who uses it? (Click here please)

• Signal Types -- Graded & Combinative
• Message Types -- Nominal, Expressive & Predicative
• Signals as Signs -- calls to action for survival
• Nominal-Graded Signs of Bees and Babies
• Nominal-Combinative Signs of Cicadas, Parrots and Babies
• Expressive-Graded Signs of Dogs and Body ñLanguageî for us
• Expressive-Combinative Signs of Swearing
• Text Assignment -- Read Chapter 1

• Quiz #1 (Click here please)

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