Discussion Post 1

[Jiwon Kang]

I understood most of what the two articles were talking about, but it was pretty confusing once it got into collocations and lexemes. I thought that the part of how words convey a sense of meaning through context was very interesting. How there are many words that mean so many different things and the senses of meanings are infinite. That is why language is so complex and unique. I think language is more than just a purely biological phenomenon. When someone speaks a sentence, although there are many biological events occurring in the brain, most people talk with physical movements and body language. Furthermore, language differs through different culture, which invokes more than just your brain firing neurons. You feel a sense of emotion and feeling. The article states that the Broca’s area is most important for the production and comprehension of speech. Also the front of the fissure of Rolando is a big component of language. People conceptualize and process meaning through context, using different words. When someone says the word “place,” we can usually infer through context of other words to understand the meaning of sense of place. Whether it’s referring to a location or referring to the action of putting something down. The two articles have definitely made me understand the complexity of language and how it applies to my SDLC course in Korean. I have to be able to use context and sense of meaning for a word that might mean different things. Furthermore, I can’t assume that a word in Korean has the same meanings as the word in English. For example, I can’t assume that Aunt in Korean means the same thing in English because different cultures may have different sense of meanings of words.