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Language: seminar series:

Date: 20/10/10
Venue: school of letters.

1. What is common for all languages? (1-7)

2. Universal grammar: Noam Chomsky (7-17)
3. What is paradigm?
4. Narrative to commonness
5. Stephen hawking: we are discovering the laws of nature.
6. David crystal: linguist
7. The whole collection 0f data collection in the field by linguists: data collection on
diversity rather than commonness. Because we like to find diversity.
8. Ultimate aim of language study? : concept
9. Major type : language acquiring and language learning;
10. Natural language:- mother tongue, human language
11. Innateness of language???
12. Imbibe the language from environment…
13. How language Malayalam is formed?
14. Creole?
15. The artificial language: espantho???
16. Cognitive science
17. Syntactic structure Vs conceptual structure
18. Do conversational analysis:
19. Metaphors: language as a machine and language as a drama.
20. We all perform with words
21. Advertising is signals + language
22. Stylistic and syntactic approach???
23. Metaphor.

Personal subject analysis on the narrative pattern:

SHOTS COMMUNICATE:
1. Creativity
2. Information
3. Semiotics?
4. Convergence: where different forms of media converge?
5. Dimension
6. Detailed research on the three grounds of a frame
7. How much information can it hold
8. semantics