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| The principle that all languages are equal; there are no primitive languages. |
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| Two Essenstial Features of Human Language |
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| Productivity and Displacement |
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| the ability to create an infinite range of understandable expressions from a finite set of rules. |
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| The ability to refer to events and issues beyond the immediate present - which includes displaced domains- such as past and future as well as fantasy and fiction |
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| refers to the study of the meaning of words and phrases and sentences |
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| The study of words, phrases and sentences in cultural context. |
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| The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis |
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| People’s language affects how they think. If a language has numerous words for the word “snow” then someone who speaks that language can think more about snow in more ways that someone whose language has fewer words for “snow” |
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| Chomsky's Theory of Language |
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| Chomsky argues that universal grammar is finite and the fact that any language is translatable to any other language is taken as proof of this claim |
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| Sociolinguistics is another way of understanding the link between language and culture. |
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