Vocabulary
Ogden and Richards' triangle of meaning demonstrates visually that meanings are in this
What are people?
Their meaning relies on how members of a particular speech community understand and use them
What are symbols?
Feminism, environmentalism, and conservatism are examples of what kind of concept?
What is abstract?
Smoke is a _ of fire.
What is a sign?
Americans typically consider language more __ when it is clear, assertive, and direct.
What is powerful?
These are guidelines about the agreed upon meanings of words
Semantic rules
These rules govern how people use language in everyday interactions
What are pragmatic rules?
Research indicates that the notion that men and women communicate in dramatically different ways is ____________.
What is exaggerated?
Using the term firefighter rather than fireman is an example of ____________ language.
In your speeches, you want to avoid these, which are conclusions based on an interpretation of evidence
What are inferential statements?
These are types of powerless speech
What are hedge words?
When picking up a friend from the airport, this set of language rules makes it possible for us to know whether to drive in the "Departures" lane or the "Arrivals" lane
Semantic rules
Communication theorists use this term to describe the purpose or intention of a communication episode.
What is a speech act?
Terms such as sick and tight may be interpreted by members of one coculture as compliments, but other people are likely to see them as insults. This is because ____________ differ(s) from group to group.
What is slang?
What day and time are the new coffee and comm-versations?
What are Wednesdays from 11-12:30am?
This is a collection of symbols governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals
What is language?
These rules govern how words sound when pronounced.
What are phonological rules?
This view proposes that the language people speak shapes the way they view the world.
What is linguistic relativism?
The term "suffragette" was first used as a derogatory, condescending term to describe women who marched to get the right to vote, but the feminists embraced the word and used it to emphasize their determination to win. This evolution of the meaning of the term best exemplifies what concept?
What is reappropriation?
This is the common Communication Studies word for authority, power, or domination over others
What is hegemony?
2 for 1: ___ are formally recognized definitions of a term, whereas ___ involve thoughts and feelings associated with words
These rules govern the structure of language.
What is syntactic?
This concept suggest that people co-create meaning in the process of communicating with one another.
What is Coordinated management of meaning (CMM)?
Physicians or attorneys who want to establish credibility with their clients might use language to create a sense of distance, a linguistic strategy known as ____________.
What is divergence?
2 for 1: This is the process of adapting speech in a variety of ways to demonstrate affiliation with other communicators AND it's opposite
What is convergence? What is divergence?