CMN 1160 Chapter 9: Week Nine.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Aliaa Dakroury

Document Summary

Syntactic rules: technology has spawned a sub- version of english representing its own syntactic rules, people on the internet have devised a streamlined version of. English that is sometimes referred to as netspeak, in order to speed up typing in real-time communication. A stereotype is defined as a kind of shorthand or shortcut that can facilitate communication. Culture is defined as the learned behaviors of members of a social group. Many writers and thinkers have offered an interesting expansion of this definition. For example, some would think that culture is a learned, socially acquired tradition and lifestyles of members of society as seen in their feelings, acting and thinking. Others think that culture is a medium evolved or created by human beings to survive. Scholars have also studied how the power of speech creates an influential status. They have concluded that there are several factors that creative positive/negative impressions; accents, choice of words, etc.