I am not the first one to say this… “The Future is in our Your Hands”
The origin of language and its evolutionary emergence in the human species have been subjects of speculation for several centuries. The topic is difficult to study because of the lack of direct evidence.
Language consists of evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition and comparisons between human language and other means of communication that exist among animals (particularly other primates).
Shortage of empirical evidence has led many scholars to regard the entire topic as unsuitable for serious study. In 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris banned any existing or future debates on the subject, a prohibition which remained influential across much of the Western world until late in the twentieth century.
So, with this in mind, I believe that this is where the deceptions began. What made such an important topic unsuitable for serious study and why was it in PROHIBITION from 1866 until the late 20th century?
Today, there are various hypotheses about how, why, when, and where language might have emerged.
Surprisingly, there is scarcely any more agreement today than a hundred years ago.
Only since the early 1990s, a number of linguists, archaeologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and others have attempted to address with new methods what some consider one of the hardest problems in science.
How can it be the hardest problem in science when it was found to be an unsuitable topic and prohibited to study?
Body language is a type of a nonverbal communication in which physical behaviors, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.
Body language exists in both animals and humans, but this article focuses on interpretations of human body language. It is also known as kinesics.
Body language does not have a grammar system and must be interpreted broadly.
Instead of having an absolute meaning corresponding with a certain movement, like sign language, it is simply termed as a “language” due to popular culture.
In a society, there are agreed-upon interpretations of particular behavior.
Interpretations may vary from country to country, or culture to culture.
On this note, there is controversy on whether body language is universal. Body language, a subset of nonverbal communication, complements verbal communication in social interaction.
Researchers conclude that nonverbal communication accounts for the majority of information transmitted during interpersonal interactions.
All movements of the body have meaning and that nonverbal behavior has a grammar that can be analyzed in similar terms to spoken language.
A phoneme because it consists of a group of movements which are not identical, but which may be used interchangeably without affecting social meaning.
No more than 30 to 35 percent of the social meaning of a conversation or an interaction is carried by the words.
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