Acquisition and development of communication and language

The big difference between humans and other animal species is the ability to use symbols: man is the only one able to produce and use symbols. And that ability is not related exclusively to the much more complex neurodevelopment in humans but also in social interaction, which has resulted in humans can develop a cultural environment, which will turn in their usual environment.

Any culture depends symbol system established to maintain communication between individuals who are part of the same; form the basis for the transmission of knowledge. In short, without the symbol there would be culture.

The primary relationship between the human capacity for symbolization and language development within the process of humanization, is derived from the fact that articulated speech is the most important form of symbolic expression, although it is not the only one to use being human, as Gallardo and Gallego (1995) note.

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Communication and Language

Human communication and language, as part of it, is a phenomenon of enormous complexity, tai as seen when we consider the various disciplines who are responsible for their study and analysis, such as Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Psycholinguistics, Philology, Psychology, Speech Therapy, etc. 

Moreover, within these disciplines may also encounter very different theoretical perspectives and practices. 

A different perspective on language and its relation to human cognitive development Vygotsky offers us. For him the primary function of language is communication, social exchange, constituting a regulatory instrument and controller communicative exchanges. Although the author emphasizes communication as the main function of language also points to another set of basic functions. Thus, from the social interaction and language humans develop higher mental functions; in the first instance so interpsychological, later, after due process of reflection, a form intrapsychological, settling and deepening the development of these functions. All this explains from his famous "Law of the double formation of higher psychological processes."

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Body language and more

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Evolution of communications

Our human development has had starring communication with it has been possible to send messages all allowing each other is puediesen understand, this is easy to understand today, however it was not in the old days where it was only possible to communicate with voice, gestures or some kind of señas.Sin But man always has managed to solve this situation and this is where the technology has entered a protagonist to make things easier as we will see were smoke signals, drawing on the caves were the first strategies, then it was necessary to leave more permanent posts and needed some kind of code and writing at the beginning was pictographic symbols representing objects born, was cuneiform script, ie traits as wedge recorded with certain style in a clay tablet. Subsequently ideographic elements, where the symbol represented not only the object but also ideas and qualities associated with it were developed.

However, the script still maintaining the meaning, but not the sound of the words. Later joined cuneiform phonetic elements, ie, signs representing certain sounds.

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Language & Culture

 An inspirational look at how language and culture transcend boundaries of individual perception and understanding. Three people share their stories of travel and cultural discovery through language. Traveling abroad is a humbling experience, one they value and chose to share with the rest of the world.

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The language

Language is the medium of communication between humans through oral and written signs that have meaning. In a broader sense, is any procedure which is used to communicate. 

It is estimated that there are over 6,000 languages ​​in the world. Oceania is the continent's most linguistically diverse and there are many aboriginal groups who defend their native tongue. In other regions, however, a dominant language has been imposed on the rest. That is the case, for example, the United States, where English led to the demise of the languages ​​of the majority of native people.

characterized by:

- Two grammatical systems: oral and gestural 

- Has a goal 

- Speech can speak of other times: past, present or future 

- It is transmitted from generation to generation 

- Separate the content and form 

- The spoken discourse, it is interchangeable with what you hear 

- Warns new events

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Language and Communication

Language is the system through which humans or animals communicate ideas and feelings, whether through speech, writing or other conventional signs, and can use all the senses to communicate. Linguistics is the name of the science devoted to the study of language, and phylogeny is responsible for studying the historical development of a language.

The concept of language can be treated as a resource that enables communication. For humans, this tool is highly developed and is much more advanced than in other animal species, and that this is a process of physiological and psychological roots. Language, as many of you know, gives you the ability to select the man, quote, coordinate and combine concepts of varying complexity.

A separation technique can recognize three dimensions within language: shape (includes phonology, morphology and syntax), content (semantics) and use (pragmatics). Language consists of the language (the language, a general model and constant for those who make a given linguistic community).

And not forgetting that there are also other important types of language as would be the case, for example, sign language. This, also known as sign language, which is used to communicate with people with disabilities either auditory or vocal. The use of the hands, body language and gestures are the base.

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Second Unit

Hello, this unit i will speak about language and communication.

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First unit completed

This first unit was on globalization in its different areas, hope you have found interesting topics that I select and thanks for reading my blog. 

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Economic globalization

Economic globalization is the creation of a global market in which all tariff barriers are removed to allow free movement of capital: financial, commercial and productive.

Financial capital is money, loans and international loans and foreign investment. Its characteristic is that it has a role and thanks to technology can move from one place to another quickly.

The productive capital, constitute the money invested in raw materials, capital goods (machinery, tools, buildings, land, vehicles, etc.) and labor.


The commercial capital, goods and services are finally being bought and sold on the international market. In the international market, leading vendors are multinational companies such as: Shell, Coca Cola, Sony, IBM, Unilever, Phelps Dodge, etc. Buyers are the populations of each country and there are many sellers of their labor, these are what make up the workforce, and they sell their labor in exchange for wages.

Globalization then, would be like the stage of completion of the historical process of capitalist expansion, with two objectives: the free movement of capital and the creation of a single world market.

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Globalization came through the kitchen

This is an interesting article where he talks a little about the history of food in America and globalization.

It is difficult to say that the food were the first to globalize trade in the ancient world, and certainly were not alone. What we do know is that since before the Phoenicians crossed the Mediterranean ferrying goods to trade; or nourish the Romans with the wealth of Egyptian wheat, primitive man used food as the first elements of barter.

All helped globalize a world that for many centuries assumed, wrongly, that was composed of watertight compartments.

While we send to Europeans, among other things, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cocoa, tomato, to brighten the pots, the fact remains that they planted rice in what is now Panama in the century XVI and XVII took him to South Carolina in North America. Soon Caribbean diet of rice and beans is adopted, a perfect match from the nutritional point of view. Then came a sort of explosion of consumption with the arrival in the United States of Chinese and Japanese immigrants. Again, this country became one of the leading world producers.

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The family face of globalization

It is becoming more common to hear talk of globalization, everyone discusses, mentions and is immersed in it, but How's the family? What is your role in this era of globalization? The word globalization was coined to describe a current reality in which all peoples, nations, cultures and religions between cross, lie at the same time, economic and sociological situations become universal, ie common to all. 

 The phenomenon of globalization is not new, it is a product of the historical evolution of the world and its inhabitants. Globalization is a social phenomenon that expresses a uniform accelerated trend cultures, rights, politics, economics, communications ... People are increasingly close to each other, not only physically (as the travel time is shortened) but also now the information arrives in real time and immediate communication between people from different continents is established; seems that there was already limits, boundaries seem to disappear. 

 Under these circumstances, families worry more and more to integrate into the globalization of the best way to reduce (digital, economic, cultural ...) gap, it seeks to be fashionable and have the latest technology, not left behind and also not to feel excluded. 

But all this explosion and desire to have things and receive what globalization primarily through the media is presenting, often means that families forget something essential: Learning to use what globalization offers. 

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