social function of language

  • 21Social interaction via MMORPGs — Massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of computer role playing game in which users can communicate with one another (via computer mediated communication), as well as virtually interact with other players. Many of… …

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  • 22social anthropology — The study of the entire range of cultures and societies in the world, although originally the discipline tended to concentrate on non Western and so called primitive societies. There are significant overlaps with sociology , but also important… …

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  • 23Language acquisition device — The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a postulated organ of the brain that is supposed to function as a congenital device for learning symbolic language (i.e., language acquisition). First proposed by Noam Chomsky, the LAD concept is a… …

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  • 24Social issues in Germany — The German social market economy ( soziale Marktwirtschaft ) was the economic policy ever since the Federal Republic of West Germany was founded in 1948. This policy brought about the economic miracle that rebuilt Germany from scratch after World …

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  • 25language —    by Gerry Coulter   For Baudrillard language is always aimed at the social (SED) and is understood as an artifical system (TE). While discourse tends to produce meaning he says that language (and writing) always create illusion (PC).… …

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  • 26Philosophy of language — is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic Philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the… …

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  • 27Nominative–accusative language — Nominative accusative alignment Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic …

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  • 28Animal language — is the modeling of human language in non human animal systems. While the term is widely used, most researchers agree that animal languages are not as complex or expressive as human language.Some researchers argue that there are significant… …

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  • 29First language — The monument for the Mother tongue in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Mother tongue redirects here. For other uses, see Mother tongue (disambiguation). Native speaker redirects here. For the novel, see Native Speaker. A first language (also native… …

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  • 30English language — Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo European language family, widely spoken on six continents. The primary language of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various Caribbean and Pacific… …

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