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    Animal Communication and Human Language

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    Animal communication and

    human language
    Romanian – English 3rd year
    What is communication?
     communication – the activity or
    process of expressing ideas and
    feelings or of giving people
    information
     (according to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
    What is language?
     language – a system of sounds
    and words used by humans to
    communicate
     (according to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
    Types of communication

     visual
    communication
     sound

     tactile
     chemical
    Ways humans communicate

     vocal – auditory
    (spoken language)
     non-verbal (body
    language)
     tactile – visual (ASL)

     !! writing –
    technological
    innovation
    Ways animals communicate

     visual signals and


    displays (bee
    dances)  auditory or sound
    signals (bird cries,
    dog barks)
     touch or tactile
    signals
     chemical signals
    (ants pheromones)
    Properties of the human
    language

    How is human language different from


    animal communication system?
    1. Broadcast is directional
     a message of human  animal
    language is directed communication is
    towards a hearer / usually radiant
    reader  bird cries
     exceptions: mass  territorial markings
    media
    2. Rapid fading
     a spoken message  animal
    does not last long communication is
     exception : writing relatively permanent
     territorial markings
     chemicals
    3. Semanticity
     human language is  non-symbolic animal
    symbolic – they communication
    stand for something  showing teeth
    other than  barking
    themselves
    4. Displacement
     human language is  animal
    used to communication is
    communicate things typically restricted to
    that may be remote the here-and-now
    in space and time
    5. Tradition
     the conventions of  animal
    language are passed communication
    down by learning tends to be
    genetically inherited
     bioluminescence
     stickleback courtship
    dance
    6. Lying
     human language can  lying is absent from
    be used to most animal
    communicate false communication
    messages
    Talking to animals
    Can we teach human
    language to animals?
    KOKO – gorilla experiment
     One of the most famous
    experiments began in
    1972, when Francine
    Patterson began teaching
    ASL to a gorilla named
    Koko.

     Koko now knows more or


    less 1000 signs.
    other : GUA & VIKI
    Animal communication

    -examples-
    Bee dances
    Clever Hans
    Doggie language
    Cats body language
    Can communication help
    animals and humans to
    survive?
    Humans vs. ants reaction to panic
    Bibliography:
     1. Yule George – The Study of Language. 4th
    Edition. Cambridge University Press. 2010

     2. Donald R. Griffin – Animal Minds. University


    of Chicago Press. 1992

     3. Martin Hilpert – ‘An Introduction to English


    Linguistics'. University of Neuchâtel
      

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