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Language
Remediation of entry from
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What is a Language?
A system of symbols that can be
used to encode and decode
messages.
Where is language?
Speech
Physical
Gestures
Writing
Digital Code
Types of Language
Human (Natural) Language
Non-human (Animal) Language
Computer (Digital) Language
Human Language
6,912 known living languages in the world today.
Natural languages are spoken, written, or signed
with the face, hands, or body.
Origin estimates of human language range from
40,000 – 2,000,000 years ago.
Computer Language
A digital code used to store and transfer
Information.
Like human language, it is also composed of
a vocabulary and a grammar.
A computer acts as the “brain” that encodes
and decodes the messages.
From Fortran to Java2, computer language
has been evolving for over 50 years.
Language and New Media
Lev Manovich discusses how new media
have developed languages of their own.
He examines the ways that new media is
affected by the language of cultural
influence with the example of cinema.
Multimodal Discourse
Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen
question the boundaries of a mode by
examining language.
Is language a mode separate of speech and
writing?