Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

kind of knowledge is deaf
What
knowledge?
culture
trms: Potry with
Sarh
SLAM YouTu
ASL
SLAM is a form of prforman potry
ASL
known as spokn word potry), whr
(also
things is a human act, it is not an act of
Naming
We are the ones who through language create
nature.
out of the phenomena around us. Yet we forget
things
we control this process and let the process
that
us. Naming things—using language—is a very
control
level abstraction, and when we name something
high
‘freeze’ it by placing it in a category and making a
we
out of it. Language is a map but three important
‘thing’
to remember about maps are: the map is not
things
territory; no map can represent all aspects of the
the
and every map reects the mapmaker’s
territory;
of view.
point
plays a ky rol in all th diffrnt
Languag
of knowldg—inluding th
prosss
words ar spokn. It is a platform for pots
no
prform in Amrian Sign Languag and
to
translation into English is providd. Wath
no
short vido of ASL SLAM dirtor Douglas
this
(a) To what xtnt an an ASL pom
1.
into English without a loss of
translatd
Can you know th answr to
maning?
without knowing ASL?
this
Ar ths prolms of translation
(b)
to signd languags?
spifi
(a) In whih ways dos sign languag
2.
mor amiguity than spokn and
invit
In whih ways is sign languag mor
(b)
than spokn and writtn
pris
Would you all th daf ommunity
3.
of knowrs? Why or why not?
aommunity
of knowldg. But w also us
appliation
and tools to know things aout languag,
mthods
How do we know what we know
III.1
language?
about
muh of human linguisti aility is innat
How
shard among all humans? This was th
and
at th hart of a long and animatd
qustion
in linguistis, drawing ontriutions
ontrovrsy
philosophy, ognitiv sin and
from
Mor importantly, it apturd th
anthropology.
of th puli, with many outsid of th
intrst
world losly following th dat
aadmi
what univrsal faturs ar found in all
aout
rgardlss of othr diffrns among
languags
III. Methods and tools
II. Perspectives
III. Methods and tools
For discussion
Ridloff and onsidr th following qustions.
writtn languags?
languags?
I I I . M E T H O D S A N D T O O LS
to xplain what it is and undrstand how it works.
(Lutz 1996)
prodution, sharing, ass, aquisition and
thm. To know this might rval insights aout
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