COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Connotation, Proxemics, Kinesics
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The triangle of meaning language allows for displacement (of ideas,time,etc. ) We categorize things & label them takes outside of time and place and location you are right now: nouns, actions, (cid:498)an(cid:499) and (cid:498)the(cid:499) to quantify . (cid:498)yesterday(cid:499), 4000 years ago, future that aren"t necessarily physical or relevant to where you are. All are human-made conventions we assign meaning to words and. We use language to (cid:498)refer(cid:499) to things & ideas. Symbol (word) kick object (referent) the action of kicking (cid:498)ruff-ruff(cid:499) means dog and (cid:498)kick(cid:499) means ball thinking (cid:498)kick(cid:499) means kicking. We must recognize two different kinds of meaning. Denotative meaning explicit, agreed-upon meaning (dictionary-ish: any of the meanings (you rock, rocking, rock n roll, the stone, dwayne johnson, you are my rock) foreign language learn the denotations can have more than one denotation. Knowledge, experience, relationship, etc. situation, usage: denotative meanings typically widely shared among speakers of the same language; but can also have idiosyncratic denotations.
