CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jargon, Doublespeak, Waterboarding

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Sherry Ferguson

Document Summary

Symbol something that stands for something else. Referent object or idea to which a symbol refers. Thought mental image that we associate with a symbol and its referent. Spider: any eight-legged anthropod of the order araneae with a round unsegmented body, many of which spin webs for the capture of insects as food (canadian oxford dictionary) Spider: the spider you see in your head, which may stimulate emotions such as fear, anxiety, or curiosity, depending on your background and experiences with spiders. Rules governing how sounds combine to form words: words in hawaiian must begin with a consonant, words in hawaiian must not end in a consonant, words in hawaiian must not have two consonants in a row. Rules governing how we arrange words and punctuation or other symbols. Young child calling out where you are? rather than where are you? .