"OInkers Oink and Talkers Talk, Oinkers Don't Talk"

THESIS STATEMENT

Let's face it, people and animals have their own distinct languages regardless of what many people think. Animals use what are called communicative signals to communicate with each other. These signals can include motions toward one another, noises (i.e. grunts, growls, purrs, etc.), and other actions. As we all know, humans use a far more extensive form of communication that involves emotion, expressions, and some extensive verbal skills. With this being the case, it is very apparent that animals and humans both have their own language and ways of communication leading to the statement that humans and animals cannot communicate with each other. They each have their own unique ways of communication that serve the purpose of communicating between each other but does not extend to ways of communication between the species.

QUOTES

"Humans are continually creating new expressions and novel utterances by manipulating their linguistic resources to describe new objects and situations. This property is described as productivity and it is linked to the fact that the potential number of utterances in any human language is infinite." (Yuler 10)

-This quote will be useful in crediting the point that human language is far more advanced than animal language and continues to grow as time goes by.

"The limiting feature of animal communication is described in terms of fixed reference. Each signal in the system is fixed as relating to a particular object or occasion." (Yuler 11)

-This quote will be used as my argument from the animal point of view. It backs up my statement of animals using noises and actions to communicate while they lack the more advanced concepts of language that humans have.

"It is clear that humans are born with some kind of predisposition to acquire language in a general sense............We acquire our first language as children in a culture."

-This may seem like an out of place quote but I am going to tie in several concepts from class. As Yule states, we acquire our first language from a culture. Granted that animals and humans are different species, both species learn language from what their surroundings. This may seem like a weak argument but no matter what the species, if the species does not have the the amount of teaching that another species has, the lesser educated species will not have as strong of a language base.