Word Meanings
Denotation
"Barack Obama is not the president in 2026"
Informative
Defined as the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
Evidence
Denotive language does which of the following?
What is defines the general properties of the word.
Typically defined as facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education.
Knowledge
Perceptual Meaning
Connotation
Attitude & Feelings
Expressive
The tendency for individuals to go along with a group’s decisions has been labeled by Yale psychologist Irving Janis.
Groupthink
Another name for connotation?
Perceptual Meaning
How many “stages of knowing” are there?
3
The Art of Language
Pragmatic Meaning
Guide & Influence
Directive
When we follow what others are doing rather than relying on our own best judgment.
Conformity
What is the best way to determine if words are excessively emotive?
Replace them with neutral words and re-evaluate the information.
This is the first “stage of knowing,” when individuals tend to see the world as black or white and right or wrong?
The Garden of Eden
Word relation to others
Syntactic Meaning
Formal Circumstances
Cerimonial
The quality of a source being trusted or believed in.
Credibility
We often describe a trait in ourselves more favorably than the same trait in another person. This is an example of what type of language?
Emotive Language
This is the second “stage of knowing,” most closely related to relativism?
Anything goes
People Who Study Language
Linguist
Two types of communication?
Verbal & Nonverbal
What are considered credible sources?
.org, .edu, .gov, etc
This type of language is used to guide or influence actions?
Directive Language
The final “stage of knowing,” involves individuals that knows it is essential to evaluate evidence before making a decision and they are also open to other viewpoints.
Critical Thinking