GEN102 - Language and Linguistics

This E-Lecture is the first of the series "Introduction to Linguistics". It discusses the central terms "language" and "linguistics", provides an overview of the field of linguistics with its main branches, and lists several arguments that should motivate you to deal with linguistics.

[@manuelmendoncaaraujo6538]

I am very proud of your illustrations. I am a master student of teaching English language in education. I am very interested in linguistics, and I want to be a linguist in the future. Big applause for you Professor.

[@jeremythomas2648]

I am recommending these videos as a supplement to a linguistics chapter we are studying. Excellent series!

[@oer-vlc]

Jeremy Ap Thomas Thank you very much for letting us know. Which institution are you?

[@jeremythomas2648]

The Virtual Linguistics Campus You're welcome! We are at NIC International College, Osaka, Japan

[@aphroditeluvapple]

thank you for sharing this video in you tube, prof, it is really help me to understand and cmprehend language

[@tutusimonmohamed5583]

Thank you so much professor am pleased with your lecture it was so helpful to me personally.

[@HAngeli]

This video is so good! It really makes linguistics sound interesting! I even subscribed for their site though I don't think I will have the time to do more than watch the videos.

[@mariagrazia0]

excelent video! this one will be very useful to my coming exam thanks!

[@musicgate100]

Thank you. This is one of the best lecture on Language & Linguistics. Clear and easy to understand. Great for my students.

[@MANNAHPOLISTITS]

Thank you so much! I'm 15 and I love linguistics. You keep me sane. Don't stop.

[@narendrashahi6557]

I am so impressed of your teaching methods.

[@micaelafilipin369]

I am studying for an exam and your explanation was very helpful!!! Thanks a lot.

[@Muhammed_A-Hussein-DR]

Thank you for the great helpful efforts of You

[@svetachaisubmittans2992]

recommending to all my students to attend this session which will benefit you as well

[@oer-vlc]

Svetachai Submit tans Thanks a lot. Where are you from? We can link up with you and your students...

[@ms.amalkhan7159]

Dr.Your lectures are of great help to me personally for preparing at my my final Exams .

[@mediatapwater]

I often wonder, how do we know other animals can't/don't communicate about things or events beyond the here and now? Obviously dolphins and whales and plenty of other migratory animals must have some sort of ability to think, plan and communicate with the group on where they will be heading to?

[@nadirali5949]

One of the best linguistics teachers

[@joymo7mad863]

Every time you surprised me with your skills as a professor ❤️ I love u doctor 🌹✌️✌️

[@sweetnessa480]

This video is really help me. Thank you very much 😊🙏

[@misslinguist2017]

Thank you for your lecturrs. I have joined most of your e-lectures and enjoyed all of them. I wish I could.attend your University in Germany.Your are absolutely doing a fantastic job by providing us with the virtual linguistics campus. It is very helpful. Thank you from SA

[@urgetosplurge]

Useful bite-sized introduction to the subject, showing the various specialty areas and how they are related.

[@parveens5113]

Hello, these videos have proved to be a great help to me....I am so thankful to all of you...I really needed someone to explain these concepts for my further exmas and these have been helping me a lot..Thanks a ton :-)

[@nanhed]

Hi, thank you so much for posting the videos about Linguistics! I am currently taking Intro to Linguistics at my college and I really have trouble following in class. Your videos help me a lot! Thanks!

[@fernanda16age]

U have done a really good job thanks for the explanations.

[@GiftedFiasco]

I found this very interesting as I have recently discovered linguistics and wanted a place to start. I also found you very listenable. Thanks!

[@khmerlinguistics7882]

Thanks for your explanation. it gives more knowledge about language and linguistics.

[@user-et2is9yt6v]

Thanks for the illustrations

[@oer-vlc]

Tell your fellow students about our E-Lectures, may be they have trouble following, too.

[@englishwithshahroz]

Amazing

[@akulanguagetube9010]

Thank you for sharing this video

[@salimalshati3956]

very interesting ,you are doing a great job

[@abdulazizsaeedal-tamimi2773]

I still refer to these videos and recommend others to them too.. thank u prof

[@mubbashirhasan591]

Lovely video with beautiful method of teaching.

[@oer-vlc]

You are absolutely right. I wrongly siad 1618 instead of 1616. Well observed.

[@ArtfulthreadDesigns]

U r doing a good job. Really helpful. Thanks!

[@Majesty508046766]

You did very well. I like it so much please keep it up

[@fariastupiantigo]

Very interesting class

[@oer-vlc]

This video is part of the open online course VLC101 - Linguistic Fundamentals on oer-vlc.de

[@fariastupiantigo]

@@oer-vlc thanks for sharing these classes with us

[@Aleroski]

Thank you very much for this video. It was very informative.

[@duckvan0306]

8 years old and still holds importance.

[@hossainosayna8623]

i liked linguistics after this fantastic lesson..and i'll study it at university

[@rafikslama4743]

Thank you so much for this interesting lecture

[@Ranipermatamandhyta151193]

Thanks for materila about Introduction to linguistic :)

[@cacogenicist]

Good point. In fact, as far as I understand it, sign languages have features sort of analogous to phonology.

[@midodonny9157]

You have an excellent way of simplifying difficult topics. You are really inspiring! I am very interested in linguistics and translation. What fields of linguistics would you recommend me to focus on in terms of the interrelation between linguistics and translation ?

[@RochelleAlken]

Thank you. I really needed this.

[@aneetsinghchadha5084]

Great job..keep it up

[@yuliapdyah1449]

That awesome lecture, thank you

[@melanielisett122]

Great useful video!

[@user-wd1fq3bh1n]

please keep going

[@akohamakhasrawf5606]

Thanks

[@dayangpilangka2055]

Thank you so much. This video really helps :)

[@MissTalinGuistix]

Mè eh'imar et kuorsa omvibala çi, nyt!

[@brhomee1]

thank you, it is a helpful video

[@littleflow3r702]

Great. Thank you.

[@NolanBCreative.Content]

Thank U for sharing

[@h.i.m.3200]

This is a very helpful lecture for beginners in linguistics, so thank you for sharing. Though there was one spelling mistake: nationalization is written this way, and not nationalizeation.

[@fhsiskfbsua]

The example was trying to show the different morphemes that make up the word, and not actually spell out the word itself.

[@TheAshani86]

Excellent

[@user-sq9vl9qv3r]

thank you very much

[@historyspeech9986]

Very interesting lecture! I have two questions: Is sign language considered....a language? Hall used the term "oral-auditory".

[@CiderDivider]

Thank you!!

[@xxxNiaouli]

I found this video very interesting. I am still discovering linguistics and this was very helpful. Though I would like to know what kind of job opportunities linguistics have. I really would like to know the answer. Thank you in advance!

[@azmahamham4757]

Hello professor, Your lecture s are of great help to me personally speaking. Thank you so much for the great work you are doing. I have a presentation on The Binding Theory and I m wondering if you could help. Thanks a lot.

[@Gwendolina12]

sorry, I didn't want to mock at anything, I just wanted to know if I remembered the date right...

[@siwarghabri1077]

thank you

Yes!

[@mediatapwater]

LOL Did Handke just say "why the hell.." at 9:35

[@mahdalouloum855]

Lool yes he did

[@Jimpozcan]

+mediatapwater 9:31

[@TwinkleIcingdeath]

Tisch, the german word for table, should be capitalized as it is a noun.

[@entisar-yemen]

👌⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘

[@Nachtfechter]

Good video. However, you said that "language is used oral-auditorily". This neglects all signed languages, which are just as much a part of linguistics as spoken languages, and must be analyzed in more or less the same way, except instead of studying the sounds, we must study the hand shapes and facial expressions and such.

[@SubtitalySubs]

I must to correct myself. They are. I just found it :D

[@carrots087]

Isn't it a bit outdated to say that language is oral-auditory considering that sign languages exist?

[@MrJakeypakey]

My uninformed two cents: the compositional phrase "sign language" does not literally mean "a language communicated through signs", but rather "a method of communication wherein true language is substituted by signs". So a more literal denomination would be "sign communication", but that's a little long and clunky. Pedantic as hell, and possibly technically untrue, but that's the way I look at it.

[@johnwayne915]

Humanocentrism strikes at 1:50. Dolphins and whales are have an extremely sophisticated language system.

[@aaronward9318]

I'd err on the side of caution before calling the communication systems of animals "language". Despite the complexity of dolphin communication, it still lacks the true characteristics of language. I simply must disagree with both your smug declaration and your linguistic claim. By all means, if you have evidence, you should submit it to linguistics journals for peer review. Otherwise, you should refrain from accusing the professor of anthropocentric ideas when you really haven't a clue what you're talking about.

[@johnwayne915]

www.ted.com/talks/denise_herzing_could_we_speak_the_language_of_dolphins?language=en

[@johnwayne915]

Just because he is a professor doesn't mean squat. Don't put academics on pedestals, they often are the most closed-minded to the obvious!

[@martinreddy3823]

"Just because...." is not valid rhetoric. By the way, animal communications have been studied and found not to be language.

[@carrots087]

Martin Reddy to define the way in which people speak is prescriptivism and has no place in linguistics?

[@habibamohamed9168]

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[@HAVgiraffe]

my eng 302 - grammar class brought me here

[@ArphenMaethor]

it may be written (in our system) as "sum ting elz" *g*

[@Gwendolina12]

I learned a lot about the linguistic field after I've already heard other lectures but... didn't Shakespeare die in 1616?? (12:45 min)

[@AndrianTimeswift]

What about the cases of apes learning to sign and dolphins understanding human language? I think there might be exceptions to the "human" part of language.

[@sajadteli7944]

how to become the member of VLC,

[@oer-vlc]

oer-vlc.de, create an account and then self-enroll to any course(s) you like. All for free.

[@SubtitalySubs]

No videos about morphology in your channel. May I ask why?

[@DmSujaEntrepren]

Professor, what software are you using? How are you virtually highlighting the words on the board? What is that software?

[@oer-vlc]

+Dm Suja ActivInspire by Promethean, the software for the ActivBoard Pro 500 which I am using during many E-Lecture productions.

[@DmSujaEntrepren]

Thank you professor :)

[@cacogenicist]

Non-human primate sign language usually amounts to: "me me me, banana banana banana."

[@thymeIord]

Lol. "something else in Chinese"

[@johnnycrane202]

Funny story, every Batman character has a name similarity in the foreign tongue to the character's name, giving us the legal right to us it as a translation. Authors don't notice it, they do it in their subconscious.

[@HaydenPK]

+Johnny Crane example?

[@ArphenMaethor]

while i agree here i actually dont care. i am a lot into history but if a person lived 2 years more or less is, maybe with the exception of great conquerors whose death stopped their armies, not really of any significance.