Redefine basic terms:

 communicate

 language

 English

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 communicate = transmit message ?

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(Jakobson, 1982: 350-377 [1958])

 communicate =

Establish a relationship*
in which to search for a common code

*presumption: concomitant changes are causal

 language = code* (words+rules) ?

*Physically:  set  of  rules  for  signal/message  conversion.
Semiotically: set of signs, i.e. lexical-syntactic oppccositions.

But...      and... .
               The Piano , Jane Campion, 1992              OSU Research News Service

 language = behavioural matrix* acquired/used in participating in communicative events.

*Physically: sedimented modulations of social behaviour.
Socially: disposition to act/react understandably.

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. . . Algiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bologna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kansas City

 English = Official language in Britain
and most ex-British colonies ?

Great Britian . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . USA (Bush) (Nashville)
Other ES Countries

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Tim Sebastian interviews Robert Brown*
*wrongly imprisoned by Manchester police for 25 years (Hardtalk, BBC, 16.01.2003, 11.30 a.m. GMT)

SEBASTIAN; You signed the statement which incriminated you for the murder of the 51-year-old woman. Did you realize the gravity of what you were doing?

BROWN: No, I did not realize the gravity of it at all, I didn't realize the seriousness or the consequences of my actions at that age. I mean, the... the... the statement isielf, it, absolutely no real fact in it,the litt'l bits that were factual the police (m)ade it up themselves

BACK

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*Tok Pisin (New Guinea English) - Shift in Norm Poviders

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to Secrets & Lies:_ anomaly

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Sound
Back..
M. Leigh, Secrets and Lies, Channel Four Films, London, 1996