COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iphone 6, Pragmatics

• School: URI
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Martha Waitkun

Document Summary

Women tend to use language as imaginary, men use it to complete something (tool) 4 different perspectives of communication (principles of language: phonetics: sounds, pronunciation, establishes meaning, how letters sound together (ex. Guy messing up peoples name on attendance: syntax: word order, sentence structure, paragraph order (ex. The batter hit the ball, the ball hit the batter= different outcomes), (ex. Yoda: semantics: meaning, denotative and connotative, content relationship level meaning, denotative dictionary (objective), connotative what it means to the person (subjective, pragmatics: contextual meaning, what does it mean to that person (ex. Friend saying it vs. boy/girlfriend saying, types of language in types of situation, word choice (ex. Triangle of meaning (semantics) this was a diagram that mrs. waitkun drew on the board. Top: apple (symbol): she could"ve said mac or iphone. Arbitrary, abstract, ambiguous connection between the symbol and the thing. (fruit, company, red, green, pie, round, fall, crisp) Ladder of abstraction (higher up, more things people might think)