Structure of Language
The set of rules that specify how the units of language can be meaningfully combined.
What is Grammar?
An automatic, unthinking, emotional response to a symbol.
People with more unusual names are more likely to be labeled this.
What is a psychopath?
Can produce feelings of exclusion.
What is abusive language?
The individual units of sound that compose a specific spoken language.
What is a Phoneme?
The individual, subjective meaning of a word or phrase.
What is connotation?
Either this or that.
What is a dichotomy?
If misapplied, they can completely change a person's outlook on a situation.
What are labels?
The capacity of language to transform a small number of phonemes into whatever words, phrases, and sentences that you require to communicate your abundance of thoughts and feelings.
What is productivity?
The objective shared meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotation
What is "Txting: The gr8 db8"?
The ability to use language to communicate about language.
What is self reflectiveness?
The typical English word order.
What is Subject-Verb-Object?
The dimension of connotations that decides whether something is strong or weak.
What is Potency?
A perspective that claims that the grammar and lexicon of our native language powerfully influence, but they do not imprison our thinking and perception
What is linguistic relativity?
The ability to use language to talk about objects, ideas, events, and relations that don’t just exist in the physical.
What is displacement?
A stand alone word.
What is a free morpheme?
The three dimensions of connotation.
What are Evaluation, Potency, and Activity?
A perspective that claims we are prisoners of our native language and we are unable to think certain ways because of the grammatical structure of our language.
What is Linguistic determinism?
The four levels of abstraction.
What is sense experience, description, inference, and judgment?