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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Language ____ be used to describe the world or some part of it, pose problems, suggest solutions, 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 single, ____ function amid all this variety?

Remember that humans are social ____.

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

We do much better in ____ than as individuals.

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

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

What ____ is communication?

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

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

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

As D. H. Lawrence ____ declared, “Never 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 ____ to be decoded but a dynamic field of multiple meanings, generated because of, despite, and indeed regardless of the author.

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

It is ____ to watch an artist striving to achieve the right 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 could break them and yet achieve a new kind of harmony no ____ 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 ____ the foreground of paintings but should be reserved for the distant backgrounds, for the fading hills on the horizon, his rival Thomas Gainsborough —so the story goes — wanted to prove that such academic rules are usually nonsense.

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