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The Origin of Language: A Perspective of Meditation Shifting Towards Needs Satisfaction
This paper discusses the origin of language from the perspective of meditation towards the needs satisfaction of communication. Labor played a crucial part in the creation and shaping of man himself and his body parts and also in the creation of language. Labor forced man to meditate on the void left between what he needed and the means to satisfy his needs. Man shifted his meditation from the needs to needs satisfaction, which resulted in the creation of tools, typical representatives of human culture. The ability to shift meditation towards tool making is a prelude to the creation of language. The ability to conduct meditation shifting is what distinguishes man from other animals. This ability has been woven into the genetic structure of man and has become man’s innate trait.
Language Acquisition: From Notion to Expression
This paper discusses language acquisition from a perspective of a dichotomy between the communicative notion and its expression. The communicative notion refers to what the speaker intends to communicate with the person or listener that he wants to address and the expression is the realization of the communicative notion by means of language. The authors first introduced Vygotsky’s theory on the relation between thought and language, then discussed the mechanisms of the communicative notion acting as the starting point of language acquisition through the analysis of the description of a child learning to say the word “dollâ€, provided by Bloomfield, and finally explained how expression develops on the basis of the communicative notion.
