We find in most Bibles "In the beginning there was the word, the word was with GOD, the word was GOD"...
Well without delving into christian theology, and just looking at the most common and even an over-rated (at times) phenomenon such as the "word" or for that matter, any form of it...
Why or just how did the human species come-about to need communication... and a more sophisticated one at that..
Well, there are theories on socio-anthropology and evolutionary psychology that deal exactly with this question... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word) so let's just take their findings and what accrued out of these disciplines and keep the ambiance of blogosphere clear and light-headed.... and a good, entertaining read at the same time, all the while not losing the spirit of adventure & Discovery and a sense of 'Journey' that a blogging experience can bring....
What the books and the heavily-bearded scholars and researchers say after years of research and pains-taking work on empirically sound data:
Well without delving into christian theology, and just looking at the most common and even an over-rated (at times) phenomenon such as the "word" or for that matter, any form of it...
Why or just how did the human species come-about to need communication... and a more sophisticated one at that..
Well, there are theories on socio-anthropology and evolutionary psychology that deal exactly with this question... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word) so let's just take their findings and what accrued out of these disciplines and keep the ambiance of blogosphere clear and light-headed.... and a good, entertaining read at the same time, all the while not losing the spirit of adventure & Discovery and a sense of 'Journey' that a blogging experience can bring....
What the books and the heavily-bearded scholars and researchers say after years of research and pains-taking work on empirically sound data:
- It all started with Food: yes, as wierd as it may sound.
- Man as a being started to have the need for more sophisticated means of communication
- to track and hunt food, and
- most importantly pass-on knowledge of growing food - agriculture
- identify different foods/edibility
- About the same time, when Humans as a species started living in larger-and-larger numbers/groups with the need:
- to Co-exist
- to Colonise (make territories and defend them and most importantly and probably the most primeval need to procreate/the freudian urge to pass-on the genetic imprint found even in Single-cell organisms)
- to move(as in mobility)
- to have Locomotion(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion)
- to travel(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel)/Wander-Ponder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkabout)
- Man started out with HOO-HOO(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow-wow_theory) and HAA-HAA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia) and took a journey (at least for the good... the good of today's Audience - bloggers)
- Journey through Language as we know it today in all its complexities and sophistication:
- Grammar
- Syntaxe
- Diction and Intonation: which lead to more complex forms of expression such as:
- Music and Musical instruments and the human ability to recognise patterns
- Art as in the Visual...
- Ornamentation: all forms of body art like tattooing, piercing, etc,... and finally
- The Audio-Visual: Theatre and Cinema
- As language became more than mere signs and symbols, evolving into:
- Morphologie and Semantics
- Phonetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_tock) and Phonology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_scroll)
- Codes and Higher forms of communications (in a way a detour back to the world of Signs: Radio, Telegraph and Morse Code)
- Translation and rendering (the likes of Research Methodology, programming languages, etc...)
- Theoretisation and Empricity of the Sciences ()
- Meta-languages and dialectics
- Linguistics and the philosophy of Languages and Human THOUGHT
- Epistemology
- Ontology
- Syllogism and Logic
- Hermenautics, etc...
- Spiritual aspects of Speech and the human urge to verbalise and vocalise thoughts and to DOCUMENT everything - Culture(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSKATUciBEE&feature=player_embedded).
