Language and Stereotypes
Proper words are _____, ______, and ______.
What are people, places, and pets.
What ability does the meaning of words give us?
Language in the broadest way.
What is a leveling system?
What are three types of problematic meaning?
Vagueness, ambiguity, secondary meaning, metaphor, irony
Definition of stereotyping. With an example (your own)
What is making a general assumption about a group of people or ethnic group of people?
What are the three theories of meaning and their definitions?
1. Definition Theory: when a dictionary is consulted
2. Denotation Theory: distinguishing words based on whether they stand for something or not
3. Image Theory: the meaning of a word is the mental image it stands for
The lesson's basic summary overall.
What is being aware and mindful of the way we use labels for general words?
What are the three problems of translation?
Context, untranslatable, idioms
Give an example (your own) of a disadvantage that would go under mislabelling general words.
Approved by Rosa
What are three factors that make one translation better than another?
Faithfulness, comprehensibility, back translation