Language and Communication

Writing Assigment 3

I. Ways of thinking about language

Nonverbal communication

Animal language

Communication vs language

Semantics vs syntax

II. Language and words

Labels and perception: The Whorff hypothesis

The brain: Wernicke’s versus Broca’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhYN7NTIKU

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