BRAINSTORM.

INTERNET, SLANG, TEXT SPEAK, EMAIL, LETTERS, MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE? MANDARIN, IMPRESSIONS, FOREIGN, HOLIDAYS, VISUAL, BODY LANGUAGE, NARRATIVE, BOOKS, LITERATURE, URBAN DICTIONARY, POETRY, LANGUAGE OF LOVE, AUDIO, WRITING, LINES, PUNCTUATION, DOTS, COLOURS, FILMS, ANIMATION, FLASH, CODES, MORSE CODE, TAPPING, HAND SIGNALS, CYCLING, TRAVELING, TALK AND GESTURE, NODDING, SHAKING HEAD, WAVING,

SWEDISH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GREEK, POLISH, ENGLISH, SPANISH.

Apparently, according to 'The Ethnologue' there was 6,912 languages in 2005.

Pigeon?

Gestures mean different things in different languages

Where do words come from?

Secret languages - twins, friends

Cave paintings, carvings into walls.

Chinese Whispers

Language changing over time, new words becoming a part of the english dictionary.

Technology, msn, skype, BRB, LOL, WTF, LMAO. Blocking people, ceasing communication, closing conversations.TWEETING.

Radio.

Body Language - sticking your tongue out, rude, cheeky

DNA, GENES, CHROMOSOMES. - instruction book to us?

Facial Expressions - happy, sad, smiling, shocked, appalled, crying, frowning.

Sayings, rhyming slang, APPLES AND PEARS, DOG AND BONE

Rap songs, using music to communicate messages,

Accents, judging people how they talk, essex dialect

Graphic Design, Advertising, Typography, Billboards, Adverts

Colour as a form of language, RED - anger//danger//passion

Brands - The ways people are presented

Books, interpretive dance, mime, theatre, poetry, plays, shakespeare.

Feelings, emotions, thoughts

Language in the animal kingdom? Dog Whisperer.

Body Communicating - Body Rumbling, telling us something is wrong e.g through headaches or pains

Comic Books - POW, POP, SMASH! speech//thought bubbles.

Common Language

Photography, Visual Language, a picture says 1000 words.

ART AND LANGUAGE - DADA

Censorship of language, banned books and works of art

Repression

The unconscious, communication through dreams?

Communication after strokes, tapping, drawings, mark making, therapy

Learning to talk and to write, not only as a child.

Dyslexia - effects on reading and writing

Swearing

HOW OUR USE OF LANGUAGE CHANGES DEPENDING ON THE PERSON WE ARE AROUND. FOR EXAMPLE, AVOIDING SWEARING IN FRONT OF PARENTS, ETC

SELF CENSORSHIP

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