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| the study of information processing, feedback, and control in communication systems |
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| the art of using all available means of persuasion, focusing upon lines or argument, organization of ideas, language use, and delivery in public speaking |
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| the study of verbal and nonverbal signs that can stand for something else, and how interpretations impacts society |
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| arbitrary words signs that bear no natural connection with the things they describe; their meaning is learned within a given culture |
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| Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity |
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| the claim that the structure of a language shapes what people think and do; the social construction of reality |
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| entertainment businesses that reproduce the dominant ideology of a culture and distract people from recognizing unjust distribution of power within society |
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