Story of your life
For the first question ‘How do aliens in the story language and communication style different from the human language?’ From my perspectives, the biggest difference happens in the written language. Firstly, of course, they don’t speak English or any human language. Our language type are different. Then, just as mentioned or assumed by Louis, the aliens have many eyes around their body. Thus, they don’t have a sense of the front. In other words, all the directions could be the front. It, in some way, affect their writing system. They don’t write from left to right like we do. If we want to right the sentence ‘How are you?’ We should start from writing ‘How’ then go to ‘are’ and the last one, ‘you’. But fot the aliens, they are different. The way they write sentences is more like joining everything together and make a whole logo. The advantage is that, they could get information more efficiently if all the messeage are piled together. And another thing that I found interesting is that since all the words or logos are joining together, it is hard to define which is the subject and which is the object. So they come up with the ways to write a mark. If the mark is parrallel, it is the subject and vice versa. By this way, the written language seems to be a more concise and easy way to communicate or convey information. As a result, the written language become the prime language used by the aliens and the oral language become the second, which is different from us.
As for how do out body structure influence the way we communicate. For out human being, we speak with our mouth. But for the aliens, they don’t have mouth. Therefore, as mentioned in the novel, they speak with their holes. We have only two eyes in at one side of the body. As a result, we right from left to right. Aliens, as mentioned before, write logos together. The similar things that we share is that we all have some gesture and eye contact which should also be part of communication.
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