Analyzing Filicity Condition

This conversation was taken in HIMAKAL (Himpunan Mahasiswa Kalimantan) base camp of Borneo students. They planned to have a vocation in Bali for the holiday.  We took a record when they were discussing about the planning to go to Bali.

Language and Culture

1.     What is language?

Language is Arbitrary & Conventional

The term arbitrary here refers to the fact that the symbol that people use is made or chosen without any principle, logic or reason. For example, people in Java do not have a principle or logic to call an animal with long tail, two hands, and two legs and like scratching and playing on trees as kethek. There is no logic either for people in Jakarta to call that animal monyet. This is what arbitrary means.

So, to answer Daniel's question: English people do not have any reason why they call the animal that produces "meauwww" as cat. Again, this is because language is arbitrary: no logical reason is used when choosing a symbol, and no direct relationship between the symbol and the symbolized.

Language Comprehension

a speech and language disorder

A.    Strategies understanding un utterance

            To understand an untterance, there are factors which help us to understanding an utterance. First, is factors which related with the knowledge. We are as human society, we lives with our environment. Our environment gives us much knowledge about life in the world.  Several of the knowledge is universality whereas another part is special about the society where their stay. General knowledge the elephant which have big body makes us assumes to the elephant which has body like a goat is small elephant. In contrast, our knowledge about an ant which has small body make us say that a ant which the length 2 centimeter is a big ant. So, the expression small elephant and big ant must be understood with the context of general knowledge.

The knowledge is one of the factors which help us to understand the content of the utterance. For example:

He bought a pair of horse shoes

He bought a pair of alligator shoes

Aphasia

Aphasia                               Dysphasia

Alexia                                  Dyslexia

Agraphia                              Dysgraphia

• What is aphasia?
• Who has aphasia?
• What causes aphasia?
• What types of aphasia are there?
• How is aphasia diagnosed?
• How is aphasia treated?
• What research is being done for aphasia?
• Where can I get additional information?

Communication

1. What is Communication?

                Communication is the activity of transferring information that involves a sender, a message, and an intended receiver. The receiver does need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication. It can occur across vast distances in time and space. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the sender. Language is a kind of communication. But it is not the only one. Communication can be a traffic light, bell, uniform, etc.

Definition

Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, moral, law, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man sa a member of society.

Cultural Studies: An interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and sometimes counter-disciplinary filed that operates in the tension between its tendencies to embrace both a broad, antrophological and more narrowly humanistic conception of culture.

Representation is production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language.

Three approaching of representation

1.        Reflective approach