What is denotation is the dictionary definition of a word. Connotation is the emotionally charged definition of a word.
100
What are display rules?
What is display rules are knowing which habits to perform in specific situations. For example, public displays of affection, how to act at a funeral
100
What are aesthetics?
What is the individual idea of what is beautiful and pleasing to the eye.
100
What are the 4 rules of language and explain each rule.
What is phonological (sound), syntactic (structure), semantic (meaning) and pragmatic (how it's used).
200
Name the 5 parts of the Definition of Man and who created this concept.
What is humans are symbol users, misusers and creators; inventors of the negative; goaded by hierarchy; separated from their natural condition by inventions of their own making and rotten with perfection. Kenneth Burke created this concept.
200
What are the six c's of language use?
What is creative, concise, clear, correct, concrete and culturally sensitive.
200
What is interpellation? And to whom does what interpolate?
What is when a person understands they must interpret a piece of work. The images interpolate the viewers.
200
What is intervisuality?
What is viewers bring their own cultural backgrounds when viewing something. It is the different ways a viewer interprets something. The way to view something with a variety of media.
200
What are proxemics? What are the 4 levels?
What is the way we use space around us. Our ideas of personal space levels. functional/professional, social/polite, friendship/warmth and love/intimacy
300
What are the functions of communication?
What is physical, social, practical and identity needs.
300
Name 3 types of troublesome language and explain each with at least one example.
What is (potentials) equivocal language, slang, jargon, inferential statements, opinion statements, equivocations, euphemisms, regionalisms or relative words.
300
Explain both discursive and presentational communications.
What is discursive communication is linear, very reason based. It is words or math equations that have straight up answers. Presentational communication is whole, complete work that has multiple interpretations. It is more likely a piece of art or a photo.
300
What is institutional critique?
What is the institution in which the work is placed helps define the piece of artwork.
300
What is counter bricolage?
What is when you mass market something that was originally bricolage so that it reverts back to being normal and mainstream.
400
What are the 6 types of communication?
What is intrapersonal, dyadic, interpersonal, small group, public and mass.
400
Explain both convergence and divergence.
What is convergence is when someone changes their language to fit in with another group. Divergence is when someone emphasizes the difference between their languages.
400
Explain all 5 types of kinesics.
What is emblems (body movements that can stand on their own), illustrators (body movements that help a conversation have meaning but cannot stand on their own), regulators (body movements that guide conversations), adaptors (body movements to satisfy physical or psychological needs) and affect displays (facial movements.)
400
What is ideology and who created the concept?
What is it was created by Karl Marx. It is the idea that the media is the dominant power and the masses are under a false consciousness that we become the viewer the media addresses us as.
400
Explain Ogden and Richard's triangle of meaning.
What is words do not always directly correlate with what the words claim to represent. Some things don't exist in the natural world such as mythical creatures, deceased individuals or concepts such as love, pride, greed.
500
Explain a transactional engagement with all appropriate key terms.
What is sender/receiver, idea/concept, medium/channel, feedback, fields of experience (differing), encoding/decoding, context/environment and potential noise.
500
Define linguistic relativism.
What is how the culture is shaped based on the language its members use. A culture is a product of the language it uses.
500
Explain both bricolage and appropriation with an example for each.
What is bricolage is when you change the meaning of an object by changing the way it is used (ribbon in the hair). Appropriation is taking a symbol and using it in a new way (for example changing the meaning of the peace sign).
500
What is textual poaching?
What is each individual will form their own meaning of a text based on their situation and unique background.
500
Define Terministic screens in your own words.
What is the words we choose reflect and shape our attitudes and create who we are. Language affects who we are.