110-1 [二技一 & 四技二] W2-23Sep2021-Assignments-Introduction

1 [Assigned reading]

(a.) https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/HACC_Central_Pennsylvania's_Community_College/ANTH_205%3A_Cultures_of_the_World_-_Perspectives_on_Culture_(Scheib)/05%3A_Language/5.04%3A_Language_Universals_and_the_Structure_of_Language

(b.) https://bestofbilash.ualberta.ca/competencyperformance.html

(c.) http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/developmental-psychology/education-and-learning/competence-versus-performance/

(d.) https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/language-and-thought

(e.) [Textbook Chapter 1]

2 請把上面的文章，看完後做成筆記(最好用word打好帶到班上討論。

3 根據assigned reading (文章＋課本內容)，回答下列八個問題(in English)，帶到班上討論。

- Note: 如果覺得課本或文章內容無法詳盡回答問題本身，可以使用網路資源

- 使用網路資源時，請儘量用自己的話改寫(paraphrasing)，並且記得要附註來源。

(A) What is language?

(B) What is communication? How is communication different from language?

(C) The properties of human languages*3

ANS: creativity, displacement, discreteness

(D) How do/did people name something (e.g. Why is the sun called ‘sun’/ 為什麼太陽叫做「太陽」)?

ANS: In light of arbitrariness.

(E) Competence vs. Performance (Noam Chomsky)

(F) Who is Noam Chomsky? => (innate hypothesis, nativism)

(G) What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

Sapir-Whorf.ppt (semanticscholar.org)

Whorfian hypothesis | Max Planck Institute (mpi.nl)

(H) What is linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism?

ANS:

Linguistic determinism: a stronger form of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Linguistic relativism/relativity: a weaker form of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

4 發問問題[Google Form在MS TEAMS上]

5 [Quiz] Textbook- Chapter 1