Week 4 Flashcards
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What is communication?
Communication is the transfer of meaningful information from one person to another.
What do we communicate through?
We communicate through: • Words • Facial expressions • Signs • Gestures • Touch
What do we communicate via?
We can communicate via: • Face to face • Phone • Writing • Texting • Email • Video • Social media
Why is communication social?
- It involves our relationship with others.
- It is built upon a shared understanding of meaning
- It is how people communicate with one another.
What are the four things that communication requires?
1) Sender
2) Message
3) Receiver
4) Channel of communication
In communication, how can the sender become the receiver?
If the receiver communicates back
What is language?
Language is a system of sounds that convey meaning because of shared grammatical and semantic rules.
How can meaning be communicated by language through a number of levels?
Utterance, locution and illocution.
What is utterance?
Sounds made by one person to another.
What is locution?
Words placed in a sequence.
What is illuocution?
Words placed in sequence and the context in which this is done.
What is an example of illocution?
Whether something is being said as a statement or a question?
What is speech?
The articulation of language.
What does mastery of language require?
Mastery of language requires us to know the cultural rules for what is appropriate to say and when, where, how and whom to say it.
Is language a distinctively human form of communication?
Language is a distinctively human form of communication.
What did Vygotsy believe that inner speech was a medium of
Vygotsy believed that inner speech was the medium of thought and that it was interdependent with external speech. This inderpendence suggests that cultural differences in language and speech are reflected in cultural differences in thought.
What is linguistic relativity?
The view that language determines thought and therefore people who speak different languages see the world in different ways.
Does language determine thought?
No but it eases how we communicate with others about what is important.
What is para-language?
Paralanguage is the nonlinguistic accompaniment of speech.
What are examples of paralanguage?
- Stress
- Pitch
- Speed
- Tone
- Pauses
Paralanguage is how something is…
said
What do different paralinguistic features do?
Communicate information about the speaker’s feelings.
What is speech style?
Speech style is the way in which something is said rather than the content of what is said. Examples of speech style are language being used and accent.
What are examples of speech style?
Language being used and accent.