COMM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Verbal (Rapper)
8 Sep 2016
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The power of words (video: a girl changes the saying on a blind man"s sign and that make him get more money from people) Ans: it was good this is vague, it would be concrete if you describe more about it, so people feel like that they were there with you. Arbitrary- they have no meaning for themselves, we put the meaning on them. Context-bond -- you use different words depending on the context/ situation that you are in. Culture-bound -culture influences what we talk about and the meaning of word ex: professor says that she is full in french but french thinks that she is pregnant. Symbolic interaction theory: meaning is created through interaction with symbols and with others. Theory of linguistic determinism/relativity (aka the sapir-whorf hypothesis); language creates reality. Bypassing (~homonym): once word can have multiple meanings ex: my brother is in a. Allness: overgeneralized meaning ex: always or never.
