An Analysis Of Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding Of Language

Window to Linguistics

Guy Deutscher the author of the book, The Unfolding of Language, indicates the importance of language existence in human life by saying, “of all mankind’s manifold creations, language must take pride of place. Other inventions—the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread—may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is what made us human. Compared to language, all other inventions pale in significance, since everything we have ever achieved depends on language and originates from it.“ Language is a tool that lets us as humans to present our ideas thoughts, and inventions; discuss about it at group; convince other that it is a groundbreaking idea; and eventually get feedback from colleague

“You are the best mom” she says and kisses her mom. “I love you sweetie,” he says, for the first time to his girlfriend, and blushes. “I love Apple” and “Apple is not going to change,” wrote Tim Cook’s to Apple employees. It seems so natural that we can share our emotions with others. It’s so obvious that we can talk, so we never stopped and wondered how it is possible that we began to speak at a young age? Or whom invented the word ‘love’, and why there are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world and not one language for everyone. The answers, explanations and the theories of these issues lie under the linguistic field. Linguistics is a scientific study of human language with a focus on all the spoken language such as, English, French or Motu (spoken by the Motuans, native inhabitants of Papua New Guinea). For example, understanding the affix function as a syllable which changes a word 's meaning among different languages. In English the affix can indicate tense, part of speech or plural, while in Hebrew it indicates of tense or gender. The difference clarifies the language structure of each language and with which difficulties English speakers can deal when they learns Hebrew and inversely. Furthermore, linguistics is the study of how human acquire and use the language. One of the famous approaches in the modern Linguistic, that explain how it is

I chose to apply to B.A. in Linguistic department at the San Jose State University Jose because a family commitment that requires closeness to home. However, when I look back, I think that I did the right choice, since the faculty is professional, supporter and push forward. The Linguistic department in San Jose State University offers academic degrees and certification in Linguistic. The academic degrees are B.A. in Linguistics, M.A. in Linguistics, and Minor in Linguistics, while the certifications are ungraduate TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and computational Linguistics. I am focusing in the B.A. program. In this program the students are introduced to core subjects in Linguistics as sound, language structure, meaning and history of the language. In addition, the students take elective courses that let them to reveal more areas of the filed such as, social and cultural aspects of language, learning and acquiring the language as first or second language. Additional, the student achieve, accordance the requirements, certification in TESOL and computational Linguistics. TESOL certification is intended to the undergraduate linguistic students. Beside the major classes, the students participate in classes such as, the introduction to second language development, teaching, and assessment and patterns of English. Computational Linguistics is the study of the process computer processing the