Language and Communication

 

Writing Assigment 2

 

I.  Ways of thinking about language

        Nonverbal communication

        Language across species

 

II.    Language and words

                Labels and perception:  The Whorff hypothesis

                The brain:  Wernicke’s versus Broca’s

                Measuring words: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, LIWC

LIWC: Examples

 

III.  What our words can say about ourselves

        Sex and age

        Depression and suicide: Poetry

        Political/cultural issues:  King Lear and Guiliani;

        Honesty

        Election 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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