A structured system of symbols for communicating meaning
What is language
100
Symbols are arbitrary representations of objects, events, ideas, or relationships.
What is true
100
The set of rules that governs the meaning of words and sentences.
What is semantics
100
How does connotative meaning differ from denotative meaning?
What is personal meaning (connotative) and shared meaning (denotative)
100
Verbal reports that sketch what we perceive from our senses.
What is description
200
The rules that govern appropriate combinations of words into sentences.
What is syntax
200
There are three levels of abstraction.
What is false, there are 4.
200
The individual sounds that compose a specific spoken language.
What is phonemes
200
What is the difference between functional-professional touch and social-polite touch?
What is least intense form of touching (doctors and patients) - functional-professional touch. Social-polite touch occurs during initial introductions, business relationships, and formal occasions. (handshake)
200
The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
What is morpheme
300
Statements or generalizations about the unknown based on the known.
What is inferences
300
Social scientists call the study of smell haptics.
What is false, study of touch
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Subjective evaluations of objects, events, or ideas.
What is judgements
300
What is the difference between verbal and nonverbal channels of communication?
What is single-channeled (verbal communication) and multichanneled (nonverbal communication)
300
The process whereby we formulate increasingly vague conceptions of our world by leaving out details associated with objects, events, and ideas.
What is abstracting
400
The capacity of language to transform a small number of phonemes into whatever words, phrases, and sentences that we require to communicate our thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
What is productivity
400
Friendship-warmth touch is the least ambiguous type of touch and leads to the least misunderstandings between people.
What is false, most ambiguous & most misunderstandings
400
The ability to use language to talk about objects, ideas, events and relations that don't just exist in the here and now and and may not exist at all except in our minds.
What is displacement
400
Name two major types of nonverbal communication.
What is kinesics, paralanguage, territoriality, proxemics, and haptics.
400
The ability to use language to talk about language
What is self-reflexiveness
500
The specialized language of a profession, trade, or group.
What is jargon
500
Emblems are gestures that have precise meanings separate from verbal communication.
What is true
500
Form of linguistic novocaine whereby word choices camouflage unpleasant or offensive realities.
What is euphemism
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Either explain what linguistic determination is or what linguistic relativity is.
What is the claim that we are prisoners of our native language, unable to think certain thoughts or perceive in certain ways because of the grammatical structure and lexicon of our language (linguistic determination). The claim that the grammar and lexicon of our native language powerfully influences but does not imprison our thinking and perception (linguistic relativity).
500
The claim that we are prisoners of our native language, unable to think certain thoughts or perceive in certain ways because of the grammatical structure and lexicon of our language.