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The presentation schedule can be viewed and downloaded here: SinEa_2014_Schedule

Homework:

Read chapter 2 “What is Language?”

Presenters, prepare your presentations.

In today’s class:

• what is language?
• is music language?  (video used: http://youtu.be/3AzovMu-2LY )
• is “body language” language? (Google images and lipstick adverts)
• is birdsong language?　(Japanese robin singing)
• is whale song (or other animals’ communication) language? (Youtube “Whale Song”)
• is language something “all living things have”? Even trees?
• language has been called an industrial tool (something that can only be made by two or more human beings working together), as opposed to a craft tool (something which can be made by a single human being alone)