Why is Language Veiled? | Big Think
Вставка
- Опубліковано 22 кві 2012
- New videos DAILY: bigth.ink/youtube
Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: bigth.ink/Edge
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ABOUT BIG THINK:
Smarter Faster™
Big Think is the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content -- with thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, we help you get smarter, faster. Subscribe to learn from top minds like these daily. Get actionable lessons from the world’s greatest thinkers & doers. Our experts are either disrupting or leading their respective fields. We aim to help you explore the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century, so you can apply them to the questions and challenges in your own life.
Other Frequent contributors include Michio Kaku & Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Michio Kaku Playlist: bigth.ink/kaku
Bill Nye Playlist: bigth.ink/BillNye
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Playlist: bigth.ink/deGrasseTyson
Read more at Bigthink.com for a multitude of articles just as informative and satisfying as our videos. New articles posted daily on a range of intellectual topics.
Join Big Think Edge, to gain access to a world-class learning platform focused on building the soft skills essential to 21st century success. It features insight from many of the most celebrated and intelligent individuals in the world today. Topics on the platform are focused on: emotional intelligence, digital fluency, health and wellness, critical thinking, creativity, communication, career development, lifelong learning, management, problem solving & self-motivation.
BIG THINK EDGE: bigth.ink/Edge
If you're interested in licensing this or any other Big Think clip for commercial or private use, contact our licensing partner, Executive Interviews: bigth.ink/licensing
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Follow Big Think here:
📰BigThink.com: bigth.ink
🧔Facebook: bigth.ink/facebook
🐦Twitter: bigth.ink/twitter
📸Instagram: bigth.ink/Instragram
📹UA-cam: bigth.ink/youtube
✉ E-mail: info@bigthink.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
According to my parents, my older brother once said "No, I amen't" (I'm not) when he was young. I always found it fascinating how a child's mind works that way.
That’s actually the etymology of the word ain’t.
Very interesting this "slipping in" of ideas which greases the wheels. My dad tends to grunt for things at the table. He must know how annoying this is!
Since a threat is usually an attempt to assert dominance, why bother veiling it? Is it because the aggressor wants to leave his target an out, an implication that the threat might not be carried through if the target concedes something the aggressor wants? Or does the aggressor fear that one of society’s umpires will intervene on the target’s behalf, and thus veils his threat to leave the fact of his making it open to doubt? (The plausible deniability thing, as the language of Realpolitik would say.)
Neither. I think it's actually meant to have EXTRA punch because it's veiled. There is an element of grim humor in it, which has a dominance effect. It's saying "I can even make a joke while I'm threatening you"
Verner Hornung social norms and values evolve in groups with language pay attention. until you have or can find va problem in the argument you have nothing pinhead.
example: imagine a judge in Sicily who has to rule a case involving a mafioso; he goes to a social event and a very well dressed stranger comes to him talking very amicably and looking like he wants to be friendly and/or knows common friends, and then he says "...and how is your son? I sometimes see him going to play soccer after school, hopefully one day he will become a great player" this way they convey a message (rule in our favor or we'll harm your boy) without the possibility that the judge can take legal action against the person posing the threats.
Very interesting. Language really is what sets us apart from other organisms. The complexity that our brains can comprehend naturally is truly a testament to the physical changes of the brain and mental adaptation in the human evolutionary line. If there's one thing to study to grasp a better understanding of just what makes us human, it's language and communication.
8:36 "I would be able to completely talk in quotes if someone said this sentence in the past" -Jay Flippen, 2011.
"'I will be able to say that Jay Flippen is rather flippant if he continues to say such things in the future,' said the flippant Jay Flippen," he said.
I think the reason why language is veiled is due to how we prefer our audience to consider what we are attempting to communicate. The brain likely processes direct demands differently than innuendo. If a mobster blurts out a threat, all of the victim's cognitive faculties are on full alert and process the threat differently than if the mobster makes an indirect or nuanced threat. This might not hold true for the please pass the salt example, however.
In contrast of GeekyGerald's thoughtful comment, and with disregard to the intellectual nature of this broadcast: This guy has great hair.
8:28
Now, back to cooking!
First off...I respect ALL peoples right to believe in God ... or not. I do not hate on Atheists or Agnostics at all. I also have the right to say what I think that so if you do not agree, I would appreciate it if you either read other comments, if mine bothers you. I have mentioned that due to the fact I have been attacked no matter how genuinely respectful I try to be.
MY personal feeling about 'language' is it does set us aside from animals because man was made in God's image. Being made in God's image, means we are made to communicate in specific ways with our very complicated brains we were given, that animals were not. Yes, animals brains are very complicated, but they can NOT communicate abstractly, the way humans can. Even the nuances of our feelings, moods and intentions are felt when we talk, no matter what language we speak in. Just as Dr Pinker has mention in this video.
Language is so important that the Constitution was amended. The way we think and speak, is governed by our brains. Our brains are the most complicated creation in the physical universe. Yet I feel we are still in the Dark Ages when it is discussed, because it is so so complex. I guess that is all I wanted to add. Thank you for letting me share my opinion with you… xo
How do you know that our brains are the most complicated in the entire universe?
Imagine writing a book on Trump's mind based on his use of language...
The core idea sounds very Wittgenstein.
Pinker is not saying that meaning is use like Wittgenstein.
give me the salt.
this guy reminds me of the new manager at dunder mifflin
He is slightly reminiscent of Willem Dafoe isn't he?
I'm going to reintellectualize the discussion: your comment worked because it was ironic. Your appeal to the unintellectual would not have been as funny if your tone was not as verbose. Language... you cannot escape her grasp on how we do things.
For being an expert in language, he takes forever to get to the point.
He DOES go straight to the point though.
Is he speaking English? How long does it take for someone to discuss words?
Does this guy get paid for this?
You do realize that an entire *lobe* of your brain is associated with processing and archiving language, yes?
Or does all science have to be beep-boop sparkly machines in order for you raging nerds to appreciate it...? =\
GoodScienceForYou
You do realize that you're describing *Western* society in most or all of these examples, yes? Hardly the death-knell for humanity at large, especially when some of these groups have lived virtually unchanged lives compared to their ancestors' existence millennia ago ^^
Yes he does. Do you value creativity?
GoodScienceForYou how is it possible that an hour idiot like you has access to advanced technology?
I work in advanced technology. You could not understand even what I do for a living.