HSS 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cloven Hoof, Linguistics, Flight Attendant
26 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Hss2102a professor tien nguyen: chapter 5 verbal communication. Verbal communication: the ways in which we use words to generate meaning. I. e meaning of love can differ for each person depending on people"s experience with love or culture, tone, emphasis on certain words; romantic love, love for family and friends, love for a hobby/sport, love for country. Sign: an image that stands for or represents something specific and often looks like or depicts the thing it represents. Symbol: an arbitrary collection of sounds that in certain combinations stand for concepts. Triangle of meaning symbol (the word), referent (the thing or action the word represents), and thought (mental process of connecting the symbol and the referent) I. e steak (symbol), image of steak comes to mind (referent), your favourite food (thought) Denotative meaning: the objective, dictionary-based meaning of a word. Connotative meaning: the personal feeling connected to the meaning of a word (emotional response and evaluation)
