Listening to the radio story of the birth of a language developed by deaf children was very impactful. I was LISTENING to the radio, listening to the words, and decoding the message by using my vocabulary and knowledge.
I was listening. The rest of the meaning was being created onto of my prior knowledge, imagination, and thoughts! But then, what might the deaf think of? How are the thoughts in the mind of the deaf person that has no linguistic record? Do the images they give rise the words? I believe so.
The feeling and deep meaningful understanding will be interpreted and identified greatly through images. Is it? How would we live in world without denominations. Living without auditory sound to build our language and understanding of the world in which we live.
After all, from the time we are children, we learn to name things, situations, and feelings, thus managing to communicate and build our thinking skills.
I was listening. The rest of the meaning was being created onto of my prior knowledge, imagination, and thoughts! But then, what might the deaf think of? How are the thoughts in the mind of the deaf person that has no linguistic record? Do the images they give rise the words? I believe so.
The feeling and deep meaningful understanding will be interpreted and identified greatly through images. Is it? How would we live in world without denominations. Living without auditory sound to build our language and understanding of the world in which we live.
After all, from the time we are children, we learn to name things, situations, and feelings, thus managing to communicate and build our thinking skills.
Vygotsky talked about the power of words to name things allows us to manipulable meaning mentally, which gives us a, 'generalized reflection of reality, which is also the essence of the meaning of words.'
The language transforms the experience, allowing us to deal with things at a distance and act on them without physically touching them or even seeing them. Furthermore, we can manipulate symbols (representations of reality), and develop creative and unusual versions of reality, and then modifying it .
It was my first experience with radio lab. In the beginning was a little confusing but I quite liked. I felt living in the age of radio. This stimulates our imagination and is a relaxed activity, like listening to a radio.
Hi Silvia,
ReplyDeleteI agree. It was so amazing to hear someone finally got the light. I really enjoyed the voice of the person who delivered the whole program. It was very relaxing and sort of healing. Perhaps after reading lot of articles, this variation made me think so.
I agree that the words fill the gap. It brings things closer to you. Even if you cannot touch something, you can always feel it through imagination when you have the words. The words remove the distance to the others from you.
I too did not realize that words have this much control over someone's life until I listened to the radio lab. Well, I would not be able to understand if I did not have the words.
Yes, we learn names of the objects as we are immersed in the environment. I think we do not even take time to consider how we learn the names of the objects since it is almost like an automatic process.But when we miss that we miss a lot. After listening to radio club, i realized I take a lot of things for granted. I also there are lot of things that I am not in control of.
Hi Silvia, I curious what you thought about the development of a new language by the deaf in Nicaragua and how the language was refined by the younger kids and how that allowed them to think deeper. I also wonder what you thought about the comment that thinking doesn't occur in children until about five or six. There was a lot of debate about that in the groups - debate about what is think. I highly recommend Dave Arnold's blog. His last paragraph in his post about this is very insightful. - Jim
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