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____ speech differs from the cries of other species in many ways.

One very important distinction is that all other animals use one call for one message as the ____ principle of communication.

This means that the number of possible messages is very ____. If a new message is to be included in the system, a new sound has to be introduced, too.

After the first few tens of sounds it becomes difficult to ____ new distinctive sounds, and also to remember them for the next time they are needed.

Human speech builds on the ____ of combining a restricted number of sounds into an unlimited number of messages. In a typical human language there are something like thirty or forty distinctive speech sounds.

These sounds ____ be combined into chains to form a literally unlimited number of words.

Even a small child, ____ can communicate by only one word at a time, uses a system for communication that is infinitely superior to any system utilized by any other animal.

In animal cries, each call represents a different message, ____ limits the number of possible messages, whereas human language creates an unlimited number of messages using a finite set of distinctive sounds.

You may have noticed that language has a variety of actual and ____ uses.

Marvel for just a moment at the flexibility, utility, and power of language as a set of ____.

Language can be used to describe the world or some part of it, pose problems, suggest ____, issue orders, make agreements, tell stories, tell jokes, sing songs, exchange greetings, buy things, sell things, make friends, insult enemies, and so on.

Can language be said to serve any specific ____, essential function amid all this variety?

Remember that ____ are social animals.

Our chances of survival and of ____ are greatly enhanced by association with others of our kind.

We do ____ better in groups than as individuals.

This places a ____ premium on cooperation and coordination with others.

Thus the essential function, as well as the ____ essence, of language would seem to be communication.

What exactly is ____?

Communication is what we do to achieve common understanding — essential to cooperation and coordination — among two or more ____ beings.

Texts must be interpreted, that is, analyzed for ____ explicit and implicit meanings.

Since it is impossible to know with any ____ what an author intends, one alternative is to discount the intentions of the author and concentrate on whatever meaning the text generates

As D. H. Lawrence famously declared, “____ trust the teller, trust the tale.”

New Criticism in the twentieth ____ would reject the notion that deciphering an author’s intention is a central goal of literature.

Literature, they argued, is not a secret message planted by the author to be decoded but a dynamic field of multiple meanings, generated because of, despite, and indeed regardless of the ____.

In this model, literature is a textual world that the author has ____ in motion but does not control; the reader controls the text through interpretation.

It is fascinating to watch an artist striving to achieve the ____ balance, but if we were to ask him why he did this or changed that, he might not be able to tell us.

He does not follow any ____ rules. He just feels his way.

It is true that some artists or critics in certain periods have tried to formulate laws of their art; but it always turned out that poor artists did not achieve anything when trying to apply these laws, while great masters ____ break them and yet achieve a new kind of harmony no one had thought of before.

When the great English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds explained to his students in the Royal Academy that blue should not be put into the foreground of paintings but should be reserved for the distant backgrounds, for the fading hills on the horizon, his rival Thomas ____ —so the story goes — wanted to prove that such academic rules are usually nonsense.

He painted the famous ‘Blue Boy’, ____ blue costume, in the central foreground of the picture, stands out triumphantly against the warm brown of the background.