HLSC 2030U Lecture 5: Verbal and Nonverbal communication
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Concrete object; colour, description, creates an image of a crisp red apple. Idea or image of something that you are biting into. Words vary from person to person literal meaning and its subjective meaning (urban dictionary) Dumpster fire a big garbage fire (literal), subjective: a catastrophic problem. Concrete word for example, car, transportation is abstract since it could be anything (train, bus, skateboard, bike) there is a continuum. Indigenous not indians, had a connotation associated with cowboys (good guys) and indians (bad guys) If you feel words, often it will influence your actions; for example, if you read an email and it offended you, inside, you are ticked off and you become an angry person. If someone is angry on social media, it can influence other people to be angry as well. Affects worldview; wwi wwii ptsd = shell shock, in the present, we now know ptsd is more common than we thought.
