Communication and Culture

CUYUGAN, CYNTHIA MAE D.

DE GUZMAN, ANGELITO JR.
 ORIGIN OF
LANGUAGE
Speech is so essential to our
concept of intelligence that its
possession is virtually equated
with being human. Animals who
talk are human, because what sets
us apart from other animals is the
“gift” of speech’
 ORIGIN OF
LANGUAGE RELIGION
When God created the first human
beings—Adam and Eve—He created
them in His own image (Genesis 1:26-
27). This likeness unquestionably
included the ability to engage in
intelligible speech via human
language. In fact, God spoke to them
from the very beginning of their
existence as humans (Genesis 1:28-
30). Hence, they possessed the ability
to understand verbal communication—
and to speak themselves!
 ORIGIN OF
LANGUAGE RELIGION
God gave very specific instructions to
the man before the woman was even
created (Genesis 2:15-17). Adam gave
names to the animals before the
creation of Eve (Genesis 2:19-
20). Since both the man and the
woman were created on the sixth day,
the creation of the man preceded the
creation of the woman by only
hours. So, Adam had the ability to
speak on the very day that he was
brought into existence!
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LANGUAGE RELIGION
ORIGIN OF
LANGUAGE SCIENCE
Language

• from Old French langage "speech, words, oratory; a

tribe, people, nation““Langage“ words, what is said,
conversation, talk,"

• from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language,“

• "The whole body of uttered signs employed and

understood by a given community as expressions of its
thoughts; the aggregate of words, and of methods of
their combination into sentences, used in a
community for communication and record and for
carrying on the processes of thought."
Language

• Which may be spoken (speech)

• or written (writing), is our primary means of

communication.
 Language

• Writing has existed for about 6,000 years. Language

originated thousands of years before that, but no one
can say exactly when. Like our culture in general, of
which language is part, language is transmitted
through learning , as part of enculturation.

Enculturation- is the process by which a person

adopts the behavior patterns of the culture he lives
in.
Language

• Anthropology study Language and its content.

Linguistic anthropology illustrates anthropology’s
characteristic interest in comparison, variation and
change.
Language

• Linguistic anthropologists also explore the role of

language in colonization and in expansion of the
world economy.
 NON VERBAL
COMMUNICATION
 NONHUMAN
PRIMATE
COMMUNICATION
 NONHUMAN
PRIMATE
COMMUNICATION
NONHUMAN PRIMATE
COMMUNICATION

CALL SYSTEMS
-Communication systems of nonhuman
primates.
-The natural communication systems of other
primates (monkey and apes).
-These vocal systems consists of a limited
number of sounds- calls- that are produced only
when particular environmental stimuli are
encountered
 SIGN
LANGUAGE

• is a complete, complex
language that employs
signs made by moving the
hands combined with
facial expressions and
postures of the body.
KINESICS
KINESICS