Dear Professor and fellow classmates,
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been reading the book "The Speech Chain". Reading the first few chapters I learned that we as human being do not put as much of our effort in understanding our spoken language as we do on the writings or readings. Many of us do not realize that speech is the center of any languages.
In the book the writer defines the speech as chain of events. To make it more clear he provides a example of two people engaged in a converstion. In the very begining of the conversation the first speaker decides what the person is going to talk about; his brian starts working in finding correct words and putting them in gramatical order. This process of selecting words and puting them in correct order is known as linguistic level. This level ends at phisiological one in which the brain of the speeker send message of linguistic process to the organs involved in speech mechanism. The speech mechanism works and produce sounds according to the messages received from the linguistic level, whihc is a physical process known acoustics level that ends at the listener. At the lisner side, "the process is reversed" (Denes). The listener hears the physical sound waves, produced by his companion, with the the help of the sound mechanism existing with him and then his brain starts percieving the message.
In the chapters coming I will be lerning the corresponding events occured in the each level of the of speech chain in details.
i agree with you, we do not put give language the attention it needs. before this class i didn't even think about, what is language, or anything in that context. now, i know that their is more to language than we give it credit.
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