Words, words, words
A unit produced in a visual language using the hands, arms, or face.
What is a Sign?
The study of individual sounds or handshapes
What is Phonetics?
The study of how language is processed by the brain
What is Psycholinguistics?
Language made using the tongue, lips, or throat
What is spoken language?
The internal structure of words
What is Morphology?
The ability to reflect on language
What is Meta-linguistic Awareness?
No link between the sign and the meaning.
What is the Arbitrariness of Sign?
The meaning of words and sentences
What is Semantics?
What is Sociolinguistics?
The forms and combinations of forms that produce meaning
What is the Duality of Patterning?
How sounds and handshapes are combined into patterns
What is Phonology?
Self-observation in which people report their thoughts and feelings
What is Introspection?
Anything that conveys a meaning beyond itself
What is a Sign?
The meaning of words and sentences in a social context
What is Pragmatics?
The ability of language to talk about language
What is Reflexivity?