PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Num Lock, Indirect Speech, Literal And Figurative Language

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Short cuts: use number pad or num lock function key: alt25 (cid:315, alt24 (cid:313, alt26 (cid:314, alt248 , alt91 [ ] alt93, alt 62 > < alt60, alt40 ( ) alt41, alt58 , alt61 = Discourse analysis: focus on talk (utterances) rather than language (sentences). 1 talk consists the sequential alternation of turns between two or more persons. 2 e interpret talk and thus make inferences about meaning based on what people. 3 mutual understanding (intersubjectivity) and meaning is monitored and co- say (or don"t say). constructed by participants. 5 turns are designed for a specific recipient in specific conditions (talk is indexical or points to specific people, doing specific things, in specific ways, on specific occasions. Informational approach to communication: general communication model (shannon- eaver, 1949) is based on encoding and decoding, but the determination of meaning is an inferential process. Gcm model reduces communication to a process of "transmitting information".