Language Experiment

Part 1:

Communicating without symbolic language was really hard, specially that we were grown up and raised learning to talk using pointing, raising eyebrows, hands and head movements, and other symbolic language. My partners had to stay silent and communicate with me the way I was communicate with them, but it was kind of hard for them to switch back and forth, since between them there where talking regular, but with me they had to stop and start using movements only, so was kind of confusing and they did lots of mistake. Voice is always a strong method of expressing your feeling, ideas and even in fighting, Imagine two person fighting with out screaming, it wont be as effective as loud voices and screaming, so having two cultures one speak and other don’t, will effect the non specking culture, the speaking culture will express their ideas no matter how complex it was more than the culture that doesn’t use symbolic language. Hands, head and eyebrows movement is helpful in expressing feelings and ideas but not as effective as mixing them with voice notes and spoken language. As well as just talking in the same note with out movements, that will not be as helpful and the mix of both body movements and voices. The culture which speaks will have difficulties dealing with the opposite culture that doesn’t speak, it will not be easy for them to communicate. People who had diseases and have no throat to talk, they cannot use symbolic language which effect their communications with people who use it.

Part 2:

I only stood still talking in the same notes with out using any hand, heads or eyebrows no more than 6 minutes, it was a very hard experiment to finish, I was never used to talk with out notes or moving my hands and eyebrows. I asked some questions to one of the partners and it was in the same note as regular statement, and it was hard for them to figure out that it was a question. They couldn’t focus so much .Sign is the world’s one of the most powerful medium of communications, non speech language is important and useful in our daily life, because we will be put in situation where you need to express your idea with out speaking, such as quit places where talking is prohibited . Example: you are sitting in a class and needed an eraser from your classmates next to you but you cant speak, you can just do small movements in your head and eyebrows that means give me the eraser please and maybe a smile to say thank you. There are certainly people who struggle reading body language, body language becomes easier with practice, and with out practice you will suffer using it. Its always helpful and benefit the person to understand and use body language because there is a big chance to meet people who only communicate with body language and cant speak, and you have to understand them so it always good to practice on that and start using it. On the other hand not knowing body language can benefits in some situations, first it encourages the person on interacting more by talking since some people find moving so much while talking is annoying. Second, not knowing body language may reduce the chance of misunderstanding a partner’s body language which cause less problems, for example, your friend might move his hand while talking to you in away you think it was disrespectful where he/she never meant it that way.

Part 3:

Written language is very important specially for those who cant speak, every body understand written language so its easier if it was permitted, because my partners didn’t understand some words so as I, so if we used writing it would have been easy for both of to communicate with out misunderstanding each others. There are befits from using written language, first of all its suitable if you are using formal language. Second of all, it is a lot more precise and explicit than spoken language or any other types of language. Third of all, while writing you will not have expressions, so there will be less misunderstanding and lastly, around the world, written language was very effective and useful in communicating with people in all cultures, the main three advantages for having written language around the world would be:

-Being able to carry on traditions to different generations

-After the elders die out, the stories stay the same

-Once the civilization has died out other people can learn about that culture.