human_voice

=The Human Voice=


For Project 1, I've chosen the medium of the **human voice**, which, as the linguist Saussure notes, is used to create a 'coded circuit between two individuals to unlock the contents of each other's brain' (Introducing Semiotics by Cobley and Jansz).

I will explore the
 * biological/physiological creation of voice
 * associations with pitch, level, speed, etc
 * parole vs langue
 * structure of language
 * time stressed accentuation vs ptich, length, etc
 * written speech: alphabet (difference in vowels, constanants)
 * history of linguistics (Pierce, Saussure, Foucault, Chomsky, etc)
 * the content of communication (thoughts, feelings, ideas)
 * the motivation of sound communication (community, warning, survival)
 * different uses of voice (singing, poetry, speaking)
 * speaking in the evolution of man, in the growth of a child
 * etc

I have chosen this media as I took a high-school course on semantics and currently taking a course in psychology (which includes the development of language).