Final Project Proposal

Project Proposal

Brittany Angelilli 

For my project I look to prove that whales do have a communication style that can be called a language. I think it is important to first look at what defines a language. I plan on looking at what makes a language, communication styles, and dialect. From my research I have found that there are different communication styles between different pods/clans as well as different dialects region to region. Also something interesting I have found in my research is that men communicate in a different manner than women. Whales communicate with each other when is comes to catching prey, teaching their young, mating, etc. I think a blog style format would be best for my project because I’d really like to incorporate visual, audio, and written text into my project. A lot of the research I have been has compared sound waves of humans to those of whales so I think incorporating those graphs would be helpful in proving that whales do have language. I’d also really love to add in some audio or video clips of whales communicating within their pods/clans. I will use my scholarly sources and my own writing to provide further evidence to what the visual and audio clips show.