Language functions as told through figure skating: What skating can teach us about language.

Anthropologist Dr. William Beeman states the six basic language functions of human beings as follows: recognition, memory, physics, composition, discourse and expression culture (Presentation, January 19, 2010). Each of these functions works in the way the language is used. Using Beeman's lecture and personal experience, I will explain how to create and execute a skate freestyle routine that highlights the six language features used. The first language function is the recognition function.

This is a story when many years ago the Wolfram language - in the form of Mathematica - was first used to teach calculus. Calculus students are hard to understand the concept of functions. But when the professor studied calculus through Mathematica, the professor told me that for some reason someone began noticing that the function was not finally confused. The reason is that they learn functions through computational thinking by explicitly and computationally seeing them in the Wolfram language, not indirectly or abstractly as in the guidance of standard calculus method is.

Earlier this year, I found myself thinking about the necessity of type theory and applied language analysis in an unexpected environment. I participated in my first figure skating course. Other students and I have registered simple goals - we want to learn how to skate. However, if you have to adopt a new word, the situation is not that simple. Skating practice includes name of learning behavior - paddle, pumping, 3 turns, crossover -. I will tell them to require detailed words on the side of the blade, foot position, knee bending and correction, how to lift the legs and arms. We practice together various parts of behavior separately after practicing together. Our teacher had to repeat these sequences for us and correct us by calling the name of the element we missed. We tried to remember the correct order by talking to ourselves with the technical terms we just learned.

Is not figure skating just a series of steps? Yes, yes. That kind But these are special steps. No, seriously. Figure skating's "step" is one of the eras when the words we use in everyday words have different, more specific meanings. "Step sequence" is essential for all four skating areas (more specifically the NBC Olympic Center), which cover the amount of ice (usually the whole skate) necessary for the skater to perform various non-jump actions It is an element. Field) - In the most complex turn, the skater needs to change his skating direction.