Quiz 1 Flashcards
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What is communication?
Exchange of information and ideas ~includes encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages
What is encoding?
Thinking of what you want to say
Can encoding and transmitting be done at the same time?
Yes
What is transmitting? And how do we transmit?
Actually telling what young to say. Performing the physical act. Can tramit using speech, mannerisms , gestures, ASL, texting, AAC, facial expressions
What is decoding?
The listener receives the message both auditorily and visually and decodes it
Linguistic aspects of communication
Speaking, writing, listening, reading, signing
What are paralinguistic cues with examples?
Things added to language to make it more fluent; 1. Intonation-changes in pitch that change the mood or purpose; 2. Pauses - can be used to emphasize 3. Stress-employed for emphasis, rale- speed (can depend on personality or excitement.)
Non linguistic cues
Differ within culture; gestures, posture, eye contact, facial expressions, head movement and body - proximity
Metalinguistic skills
Involve US thinking about language in a deeper way ; grammar, phonological awareness, and identical forms with different meanings
Language
A complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols that are used various modes for communication
Qualities of language
1) a social tool 2) rule-governed 3) generative 4) reflexive 5) reflexive 6) has displacement 7) arbitrary
Expressive language
The act of producing language and expressing our ideas; labeling images, speaking, gestures, crying, etc
The OUTPUT
Receptive language
The act of thinking through an idea and/or understanding what others; the INPUT
Components of language
- Form - syntax, morphology, phonology
- Content- semantics
- Use- pragmatics
Phonology (form)
Rules for sound placement and combination
Phoneme
Smallest unit of sound that changes meaning; characterized by place, manner and voicing
Morphology (form)
Concerned with the internal organization of words
Morpheme
Smallest grammatical unit that can be separated without changing the meaning or producing a meaningless unit
Free and bound morphemes
Free-when separated can stand alone;bound-carries meaning but needs to connect to a word/can’t stand alone
Derivational morpheme
Prefix or suffix that creates a new word by changing the word class
Inflectional morpheme
Suffixes that change the state or increases precision
Syntax (form)
Word order, sentence structure
Semantics (content)
Meanings of words and word combinations. based on someone’s environment; selection restriction( can’t contradict)
Pragmatic (use)
How we use language in 9 socially appropriate way; cultural
