Saturday, April 24, 2010

Response: Jacob Wheeler (2/5)

Q; Words are Indicators of What?

In general throughout history, over thousands of generations words have been essential for communication among humans and animals in which we can express our own feelings or proving our points. Communication is essential with one another because if there was no such thing as communication via words, how would we communicate, excluding body language? It has been true that communication through body language is successful but can we communicate exactly what we want to at a given moment. For example if I was having a great or bad day, how would I express those given factors that made my day go by extremely well or bad. I could by telling anyone pictorially or writing on paper but could that type of communication function in everyday life? Generally speaking in the instance of people who are deaf, they speak through sign language which could be a form of body language, and has been extremely successful since sign language has been innovated. However what if we did not know what these words meant? This brings me to the question that you generally asked and what truly are words indicators of? In my opinion words are tools that we (humans,animals)use to communicate with each other. Each word has its own meaning and each meaning is mostly distinct but some words can be synonymous with each other. For example when an individual expresses an enjoyment for anything, each word has a different meaning e/g I love sports because of the competitive nature. Every word is the example sentence has a different meaning and with those different meanings a complete sentence is put together. But in general words have different meanings,each word indicates a specific meaning or definition, and we have used words as tools for everyday communication.

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