COMM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tag Question, Profanity, Linguistic Relativity
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Describe the power of languages, the system of symbols we use to think about and communicate experiences and feelings: Words are symbols that have meanings agreed to by speakers of a language. Cognitive language is what you use to describe people, things, and situations in your mind. Correct grammar, the rules of a language, helps ensure clarity. Communication accommodation theory illustrates how people should adapt their language and nonverbal behaviors to the person, group, or context. Learning words and how to use them effectively is the process of communication acquisition. Identify how language helps people communicate, the five functional communication competencies: For informing, including four aspects; questioning, describing, reinforcing, and withholding. For expressing feelings to let people know how we value them. Describe the ways that communicators create meaning with language: Semantics refers to the meaning that words have; pragmatics refers to the ability to use them appropriately.
