the study of language by george yule ppt

Robert Dunbar (1996: 152-3) describes one of these towers from a historical point of view. Apparently there were many large towers built in Mesopotamia (part of modern Iraq) which all had names suggesting they were perceived as stairways to heaven. This can be viewed as an explanation of how humans started with a single language and ended up with thousands of different, mutually unintelligible languages all over the world.

(Genesis 11: 5-9)ġ.B The tower of Babel The usual interpretation of these events is that humans were united in a single language and working together to build a tower which represented a challenge to God, and God intervened in some way so that they couldn’t understand each other and dispersed them to different places. Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language: and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

The maneuver is used as a solution to the risks caused by that development.

It is associated with the lower position of the larynx in humans.

A procedure used to dislodge pieces of food that are stuck in the throat, in the upper respiratory passage.It seems wise then for foreign language teachers and materials writers to take account of the clues and procedures involved in language interpretation.THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE (TASKS) Yule, George (2011). Secondly, 'discourse rarely provides us with a fully explicit description of a situation' (Eysenck 1990:224) there fore, we usually have to fill in the missing information (see also Clark & Clark 1977:96-98). Firstly, the conventional meaning of lexis is not always a clear indicator of the intended message of speakers/ writers (e.g. Inferencing is essential for effective communication for two reasons.

The study of language by george yule ppt