CMN 134 Lecture 2: CMN 134 - Lecture 2
24 Mar 2017
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Sapir-whorf hypothesis: language shapes the way you view the world. Ex: 17 different words for snow (each one you"ll see in a different way) Semantic code: the study of the meaning of words. Denotative meaning: primary and literal meaning (dictionary) Connotative meaning: secondary meaning a word might convey (implied by what we"re saying: i"m starving , near death because lack of nutrition. Need food or i"m going to die (denotative) I"m really hungry (connotative: i love you , dictionary definition, depends on who is saying it to you, mom/date/boyfriend. Reference (actual flower physically it is a flower) Symbol actual word (flower: symbols that we assign to references = completely random, they only contain meaning because we assign it to them. Hayakawa"s ladder of abstraction one way to deal with the confusion that we have different words for our thoughts (ambiguity of language) Level 1: allison (start big then get more specific)
