Cummings actually boldly experimented with this principle and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Dell Hymes.
对此,卡明斯做了一个大胆的试验,吸引了语言学家的注意,特别是德尔海默斯。
This then is the object of Saussure's attention as a linguist and as a semiotician.
这就是索绪尔所注意到的,作为一个符号学家兼语言学家。
And human language uses this amazing trick described by Ferdinand de Saussure, the great linguist, as "The arbitrariness of the sign."
人类语言使用这些,被语言学家费迪南德·德·索绪尔,称之为"符号任意性"的神奇把戏
Higgins The idea here is how Higgins, doctor, linguist, took a flower girl and molded her in the sense into being royalty.
说的是,一位博士,语言学家,如何把一个卖花女塑造成贵族。
In fact, linguists often argue about this subject, and it's a complicated one.
实际上,语言学家经常在这个问题上有争议,这是很复杂的一个东西。
That we share not just the capacity for language in the way a linguist might assert, but that we share a certain common moral language.
我们不只共享语言能力,如同语言学家所主张,更共享,一种特定的共同道德语言。
Some linguists would interview --Linguists would interview adults in these communities and say, "Why don't you speak to your babies?"
语言学家们会访问,住在这些社会中的成人,然后问道,"你为什么不和你的宝宝说话"
Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.
想象一下,一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。
And linguists have all of these conditions they say, "No language in the world works this way."
而语言学家们知道这些条件,他们会说"世界上没有语言会这样表达"
And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.
大多数语言学家们都会回答"是的",语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用
It's not--It's actually close to how linguists describe normal languages, but it's very simple.
这个例子和语言学家所描述的,正常语言非常接近,但却很简单
Linguists can work at different levels of abstraction with language.
根据不同层面的基本单位,语言学家有不同的研究。
The linguists know that that's not at all necessarily the case.
语言学家认为语言的基本单位不一定是词。
And then the American linguist would say, "Yeah. We speak to our dogs."
然后这些美国的语言学家会说,"是啊,我们会和我们的狗说话"
I'm a linguist and so what do I do?
如果我是语言学家?
And that's the sort of thing linguists study.
这就是语言学家们所研究的内容
Well, there's a radical claim about the origin of language associated with the guy who we met when we talked about behaviorism who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.
关于语言的起源,语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基,提出了一个激进的观点,我们曾在讲述行为主义时提到过,他写过篇叫《述评》的论文
And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.
这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家
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