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| A collection of symbols, letters or words with arbitrary meaning to others' words in order to translate them into thoughts of your own; it has three rules: semantics, syntax & pragmatics. |
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| What does it mean to decode? |
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| The process of assigning meaning to others' words in order to translate them into thoughts of your own. |
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| The study of the way humans use language to evoke meaning in others. |
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| The way in which words are arranged to form phrases and sentences. |
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| The study of language as it is used in a social context, including its effect on the communicators. |
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| What does it mean to encode? |
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| The process of translating your thoughts into words. |
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| What is phatic communication? |
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| Communication that is used to establish a mood of sociability rather than to communicate information or ideas. |
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| Why are culture and language related? |
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| Because the transmission of culture occurs through language. |
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| What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? |
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| A theory that our perception of reality is determined by our thought processes and our thought processes are limited by our language and therefore language shapes our reality. |
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| What is a denotative meaning? |
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| The agreed upon meaning or a dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| What is a connotative meaning? |
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| An individualized or personalized meaning of word which may be emotionally laden. |
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| Words and phrases used informally. |
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| An expression that has lost originality and force through overuse. |
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| A more polite, pleasant expression used instead of a socially unacceptable form. |
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| Any language that is purposefully constructed to disguise its actual meaning. |
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| A specialized language of a group of people who share a common interest or belong to a similar co-culture. |
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| Language that is disrespectful of things sacred. |
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| The technical language developed by a professional group. |
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| A word or phrase specific to a particular region or part of the country. |
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| Language that excludes individuals on the basis of gender. |
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| Language that insults a group because of its skin color or ethnicity. |
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| What is heterosexual language? |
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| Language that implies that everyone is heterosexual. |
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| The practice of describing observed behavior or phenomena instead of offering personal reactions or judgements. |
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| What is an operational definition? |
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| A definition that identifies something by revealing how it words, how it is made or what it consists of. |
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| What is concrete language? |
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| Words and statements that are specific rather than abstract or vague. |
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| Specifying when you made an observation, since everything changes over time. |
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| What is frozen evaluation? |
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| An assessment of a concept that does change over time; complete opposite of dating. |
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| Identifying he uniqueness of objects, events and people. |
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