3rd Quarter Objectives - Sense Perception and Language WOKS

MRC’s TOK Q3 –  INDEPENDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES - 

TOPICS TO BE STUDIED AT HOME IN       VAN DE LAGEMAAT   “THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE” TEXTBOOK – 

CHAPTERS ON SENSE PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE (WOKS)

1.       SENSE PERCEPTION PAGES 85-105   -EMPIRICISM

COMMON SENSE REALISM

SCIENTIFIC REALISM

PHENOMENALISM

Other sources – Empiricsim - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism#Early_empiricism

Stanford University    -     http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=empiricism

REAL LIFE ISSUES AND EXAMPLES – TOK BLOG – DR PHIL EYE WITNESS RELIABILITY /PILOT ERROR – SPATIAL DISORIENTATION

LINKING QUESTIONS PAGE 104

2.      LANGUAGE AS A WAY OF KNOWING

PAGE 48 – WHAT ARE THE THREE QUALITIES OR PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE?

PAGES 52-54 – WHAT ARE THE THREE THEORIES OF LANGUAGE? – DEFINTIION/DENOTATION/IMAGE THEORY

VAGUENESS/AMBIGUITY/ SECONDARY MEANING and DENOTATION VERSUS CONNOTATION

LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 61-64

LABELS/STEREOTYPES -67

SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS – 68-71

LANGUAGE AND PERSUASION – INFLUENCE-ADVERTISING-PROPAGANDA

LINKING QUESTIONS PAGE 78

Other resources

Stephen Pinker on blog/ Orwell “1984”/THE CENTURY OF SELF DOCUMENTARY BLOG/ FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS AND SANDS OF IWO JIMA – CLINT EASTWOOD –  HOLIDAY VIEWING -Pacific war from American and Japanese perspectives using English and Japanese languages.

Learner’s personal perspective – how do different languages in your life influence the way you speak and the way you think about different subjects? Has English been degraded by popular culture eg Hip-hop? How does the government use language to control the population in “1984”?