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Lesson 5 How Do Children Acquire Concepts?

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Lesson 5 How Do Children Acquire Concepts?

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Lesson 4 How Do Words Relate to Concepts?

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Lesson 4 How Do Words Relate to Concepts?

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Task 2 - Language and Thought/Lesson 4: How Do Words Relate to Concepts? 2021

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Muñoz, M. (2021). Introduction to Language and Culture. [e-Book]. Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia. https://repository.unad.edu.co/handle/10596/39317

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I share the answers to the questions from lesson 4 of my partner Luis Carlos

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I share the answers to the questions from lesson 4 of my partner Luis Carlos

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Lesson 4: How Do Words Relate to Concepts? ▪ Thinking about the idea of semantic space, can you think of similar examples of how the space is divided differently across languages that you know?

The words are related to the concepts in how the community agreed on what to call each thing and what each one would mean, so there are words that in one country may have a meaning, but in another country it means something very different, such as For example, the word "wee" that in almost all English-speaking countries refers to a childish way of "urinating" that is, to "pee" but in Australia they use it to refer to someone or something "small" in an affectionate way. According to Saussure, the two parts of a sign are the signifier and the signified.

By: Maryuri Tavera

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Sharing with you the questions related to the topic of the video of the classmate Diana.       

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Sharing with you the questions related to the topic of the video of the classmate Diana.       

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Lesson 8: Language Control
▪ How much does language shape the way we think?
I believe that language greatly influences our way of thinking, according to various linguists who promote the idea that the words we use and hear influence the way we understand the world and the document names some examples of the effects of language on society such as sexism and racism.

▪ What do you think might be the arguments for and against this?
The arguments against are those that use non-neutral grammatical structures when describing events increasing social inequalities as in the immigrants and the arguments in favor would be the positive influences that are exerted in society and the promotion of social advances such as social and gender equality.

▪ What is your viewpoint?
My point of view about language control is a very delicate matter in the sense that it is a great responsibility to convey messages objectively without harming others.

By: Claudia Patricia Díaz.

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I share the answers to the questions from lesson 5 of my partner Claudia Diaz

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I share the answers to the questions from lesson 5 of my partner Claudia Diaz

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1. Was this a difficulty in communicating concepts across different languages, or in the same language?
For me it is clear that there is a crossover between the ways of saying things in the same language, I mean that for example, here in Colombia, when you explain something with the jargon that you have as a Santandereano to a costeo, it is very likely that he will not fully understand the words, maybe the context but not each of the words.

2. How did you resolve this? What changed, and for whom?
Watching the video companion of her Claudia, the necessary signs so that the children can acquire that knowledge must be done through figures, association of things, so that they have more facility to learn them. As time passes, there are many ways in which knowledge can be imparted to children and thus make this task easier and more dynamic.

3. How is the ‘type-token relationship’ useful in helping us to communicate with each other?
They serve to distinguish between concrete linguistic expressions (cases) and the abstract units of the metalevels (types) that represent them. Given the morphological peculiarities of Spanish, we can refine the results and obtain better TTR calculations if we group the various forms of the same word under its motto, that is, that good, good, good, good are considered in our calculations as four forms ( four tokens) of a single word (a type). Therefore, our TTR measurements will take into account the grammatical analysis of the word and its stemming.

By: Diana Cuellar

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1. Can you think of ‘untranslatable concepts’ you have come across when trying to move between one language and another?

Nowadays, there are too much words across one language another, it is a topic to learn carefully and get closer to a culture in order to study its language and carry out an investigation of the cause of its words, with their meaning and their origin, on the other hand, an interesting aspect of languages are words that have no translation or that are difficult to translate, since they express particular concepts that are not present in other languages or in other cultures. for example, I have found spam and tartle, untranslatable, however, Muñoz, M. (2021), says “And there are many others. But is there such a thing as a word or concept that is truly untranslatable? One such concept that has received a lot of attention in recent years is that conveyed by the Danish words “hygge”, or “hyggelig”. As with all untranslatable words, many approximate translations have been offered “page 29.

2. Sometimes we may find that there is no word for something in a language –a ‘lexical gap’ appears. Why do you think this happens?

Because, they are words that have their own names and each speaker of the different countries gives other names to things.

By: Luis Cevallos