Topic 1: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

For this week, i had learned more about the meaning of language and how we use it in an appropriate place or time. the arrangement of a sentence should be care more. language are usually use to communicate or represent thoughts or ideas with other people rather than only learn it. the language can be shown from sounds or letter. in other countries or races, there are lots of language we heard, but the meaning is still same. for example: a house can be called 'rumah' in Malay. the sound is different but the meaning is still same. i have more example to show the differences between sounds in other country that i had learned:

Arabic: kaifa haluka? (how are you?)

aina taskunu? (where are you live?)

ma ismuka?( what is your name?)

I had learned in english language, most of the basic structure in a sentence should have Subject-Verb-Object(SVO), example:

I play football.

in arabic: ana laába kirratulkadam (SVO) but it still same if the sentence change to (ilába kirratulkadam)

Studied language is very interesting because it has many different sounds and how the sound produce. the rules of language stick with SVO and no other language has that rule except the sequence. it can be VSO or something like that. different language have its creativity to make their language interesting.

Besides that, learned English language is not easy for me because of my mother tongue is still strong. but i can solve it through hearing english song and so on. that is the most Malaysian problem occur especially for students. meanwhile, it also effect most of our pronunciation become more to our mother tongue. so manglish occur in our culture. its not wrong if we use manglish to communicate with other, but in time it also can develop our competency in English.

Communication can be exist if there have 2 parties between sender and receiver of massage. there are variables of communication which are non-vocal and vocal. under non-vocal has visual, tactile, olfactory and physical or kinetic. for example:

visual- staring, winking

tactile- shaking hand

olfactory- twitching of nose

kinetic- body language

Under vocal has non-speech and speech. under non-speech it also has physiological reflexes, emotion markers, voice quality differences and paralinguistic effects. for example:

physiological reflexes : yawns, purposeful coughs

emotion markers : show feeling(sighs, sob)

voice- whisper,raised voice

paralinguistic effects - show joy/sadness(laughter, humming)

There is very interesting if we can master of all this language. it helps us to avoid to misunderstand with other language and the important thing is the message that we want to presents to other with different culture.