Week 2 Midterm Def Flashcards
1
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Semanticity
A
Language has to convey meaning and assigns meaning to specific symbols
2
Q
Productivity/Openness
A
Learning about a language and its rules allows you to create new things, you can say things that have never been said and it can still be understood
3
Q
Learnability
A
Users of one language can learn to use another different language
4
Q
Displacement
A
The communication can be used to talk about things remote in time and space
eg. talking about the past or future, far from where we currently are
5
Q
Linguistic Determinism
A
Language determines thought
6
Q
Language Relativity
A
Language affects perception
