04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psycholinguistics, Microaggression Theory

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: Linardopoulos

Document Summary

Fundamental communication principles: communication is subject to error, communication is dynamic, communication is symbolic, you cannot not communicate. Language and reality: language is a code, or system of arbitrary symbols, shared by a group in order to communicate, words have no meaning in and of themselves, words are not reality; they merely represent reality. The broken line emphasizes that there is no direct connection between words and things. Meaning exists in thoughts only: denotative meaning refers to a word"s dictionary definitions. Words have a limited: connotative meaning is subjective. Words can have a virtually limitless number of number of denotative meanings connotative meanings (as many meanings as there are people who use them). Offensive and inoffensive language: euphemisms are words used in place of terms that some people might find offensive, emotive language conveys an opinion or attitude about a subject (cid:498)politically correct language(cid:499) means different things to different people.