Uses Of Language Flashcards
(31 cards)
Intends only to vent some feeling, or perhaps to evoke some feeling from other people.
Expressive use of Language
Aims to cause or to prevent some action by a human agent.
“Shut the door” “Read the textbook”
Directive use of language
- -is spontaneous and instant
- -an interaction where both participants are present
- -tends to use informal vocabulary
- -characterized for being dynamic and transient
- -interruptions and overlaps are common
- -give the opportunity to rephrase or rethink and utterance
Spoken Language
–The writer is usually distant from the reader
–No visual cues, no immediate feedback
–Organized and compact expression due to sentence structure, punctuation and formatting
–there is a time log between production and reception
Use formal vocabulary including words which are not usually used in spoken language
Written Language
Is an arbitrary representation of something else.
This may be an object, an idea, a place, a person or a relationship
Symbol
These are consequences or indications of something specific, which human beings cannot change by arbitrary actions or labels
Signs
The transactional use of symbols, influenced, guided and understood in the context of relationships.
Communication
Once again, this is an arbitrary representation.
A Symbol
Communication requires that Symbols convey _______?
meaning
Involves the way in which symbols take on meaning in a social context or society as they are used over time
Social construction
The means through which a message is conveyed.
This will also impact the meaning of the massage.
The Medium
How the message is produced and given to someone.
These are basic formes of knowledge that provide a definition of a scenario
Both people agree on the nature of the situation
Frames
Help people understand their role in the conversation and what is expected of them.
Communication is Both
A) Convays information or discribes facts. (FACTS)
B) Presents your particular versions of the event or facts. (SPIN)
A) Representational
&
B) Presentational
You are who you are. Not just by name but the kind of person you are.
You-nique!
Such as a History deep inside, a childhood set of experiences that make you who you are.
A characteristic (something that you posess)
A performance (something that you do)
And partly, a construction of society
Your Identity
The process of actively selecting, organizing and evaluating information, activities, people and essentially everything that makes up your world.
Perception
These are mental structures that are used to organize information in part by clustering or linking associated material.
Stored information
Schemata
Your best-case of something, such as your ideal partnership or relationship you’d like to have.
Prototypes
Bipolar dimensions used to measure and evaluate things.
These constructs are narrow and have more characteristics.
Personal constructs
These are guides for behavior developed from our system of knowledge. We use these when we are performing social roles and enacting identities in everyday life.
Scripts
When you think about persons as having some true personal, private and an essential core, covered with layers of secrecy, privacy and convention
Self-concept
The revelation of information that people could not know unless you made it known to them.
Self-disclosure
Your sence of self is influenced language frames, culture,origin, membership and other peoples though about you.
Symbolic Identity
Involves an effort to communicate some content.
This kind of use presumes that the content of what is being communicated is actually true.
Informative use of Language.
Any information that is expressed without using words.
Tone of voice, body movement, etc. . .
Nonverbal Communication
93% is constructed from Nonverbal Communication
