Language and Social Reality
How many social realities exist?
Many!
Can language be misused?
Yes!
Yes!
What are the three types of language?
People, Places, and Language
What is our Professors name?
Tao Zhang
What is the term that is defined by: the structure of a language influences the way we perceive the world?
Linguistic Reality
True or False: Misusing language avoids responsibility.
True!
What is the term that is defined by: A screen composed of terms used to
direct our attention toward and/or
away from certain interpretations?
Terministic Screens
True or False: It is dangerous to only know one side of a story.
True
What time do we have class every week?
Tuesday Thursday 8:00 AM
What is the term that is defined by: a part of our social life (e.g., traffic lights, road signs, logos, etc.)?
Sign
What is the term that is defined by: Language used to
confuse or deliberately distort its
actual meaning rather than to
achieve understanding?
Double Speak
What is the term that is defined by: a linear structure
operating through reason?
Discursive symbolism
What is the term that is defined by: Language is a system of rules
with political consequences,
influencing Who is allowed to
speak, about what, and where?
People
True or False: This is a Communications class.
True
What is the term that is defined by: relationship among signs, meanings, & referents
Semiotics
What are two methods of misusing language?
Euphemism and Inflated Language
What is the term that is defined by: A culturally established and
sanctioned term that composes our
taken-for-granted understanding of
the world ?
Public Vocabulary
What is the term that is defined by: it manifests power; location matters?
Places
What classroom number are we in?
325
We live in both Objective realities and ...
Constructed Realities
What is the term that is defined by: sentences
that use a passive word in order to
delete the agent of action
To avoid responsibility, to conceal
and deceive?
Truncated Passives
What is the term that is defined by: a direct
presentation of an individual object?
Presentational symbolism
What is the term that is defined by: Whose voices are present,
whose are absent; what
topics are talked about
Silence
Jin and Alexis (Lexi)