We'll talk about what languages share, we'll talk about how language develops, and we'll talk about language and communication in nonhumans.
我们将会谈及各种语言的共性,谈及语言的发展,以及非人类的语言交流
Interact as much as you possibly can in English or any language.
与人交流时,尽可能多地用英语或任何语言。
It's quiet, it's warm, Now imagine you're born deaf, you cannot hear, you cannot communicate by spoken words with your friends and family.
四周一片寂静,温暖,再来假设你自幼失聪,不能和家人,朋友用语言交流。
And I became interested in the way human rights' language and human rights' talk.
我的兴趣还扩大到了,人权的语言和人权的交流。
You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.
也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的
Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.
他们认为,内容即是功能,实用语言的目的,就是交流,我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。
And this pidgin was how they would talk.
他们会使用这种混杂语言来进行交流
Once we've made some generalizations about language in this narrow sense, we could then ask, and we will ask, to what extent do other systems such as animal communication systems relate to this narrower definition.
一旦我们在狭义上,得出了某些关于语言的概论,那我们就可以发问,诸如动物交流系统之类的其他系统,会在多大程度上,符合这个狭隘的定义呢
They take this makeshift communication system developed by adults and, again, they turn it into a full-blown language, suggesting that to some extent it's part of our human nature to create languages.
他们继承了成人发展出来的临时交流系统,将这个临时交流系统,再次发展成一种成熟的语言,这表明从某种程度上来说,创造语言是我们人类本性的一部分
But the cases of specific language impairments suggest that all of that is wrong, because there are children in this world right now who are plenty smart, who really want to communicate, and who are entirely social creatures but they can't learn language.
但是特殊言语损伤的案例表明,以上的所有都是错的,因为现在在世界上,会有些足够聪明,想要交流,完全社会生物的儿童,他们无法学习语言
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