This document presents an exploration of communication, particularly focusing on signs and language as processes for exchanging information. It discusses various aspects of communication, including verbal and non-verbal forms, and outlines key design features of language such as arbitrariness, duality, patterning, creativity, and displacement. The role of signing is highlighted as a visual form of communication that is meant to support rather than replace speech.

1. Presented to : Dr. Khaleel Bader Al Bataineh
By : Maram Abu Hawash
Communication and signs

2. Communication
• a process by which information is exchanged between
individuals through a common system of symbols, signs.

3. Signs are based on gestures – a form of communication
that most of us use naturally. Signing is a visual form of
communication and should support speech not replace it.
Signs

4. Types of Communication
Verbal Non Verbal

5. is the inherent capability of native speakers to understand
and form grammatical sentences. A language is a set of (finite
or infinite) sentences, each finite length constructed out of a
limited set of elements.
The Use Of Language

6. What are the Design Features of Language?
Arbitrariness Duality
Patterning Creativity
Displacement

7. Arbitrariness
is the absence of any natural or necessary connection
between a word's meaning and its sound or form. An
antithesis to sound symbolism, which does exhibit an
apparent connection between sound and sense.

8. is the fundamental language phenomenon consisting of the
use of combinations of a small number of meaningless
elements (sounds i.e. phonemes) to produce a large
number of meaningful elements (words,
actually morphemes).
Duality

9. is the property of human language that enables
combinatorial structure on two distinct levels.
Patterning

10. the focus is on the ability of speakers to create and name
novel concepts, either by creating completely new lexical
items, or by using existing lexical items in a novel way.
Creativity

11. is the capability of language to communicate about things
that are not immediately present (spatially or temporally);
i.e., things that are either not here or are not here now.
Displacement

12. Thank you very much
for giving me your time.