CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tag Question, Five Ws, Valleyspeak
15 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Language allows for human communication (the basis: language is symbolic: Triangle of meaning: referent (thing that is being talked about), symbol/words, and thoughts (thoughts can vary depending on the person) No logical connection between referents and symbols (showed by the dotted line: language is rule bound: We have developed conventions to help us understand each other. Phonological rules: how sounds combine to form words in different languages (eg. in english usually there is one vowel per syllable, so the word zjrtnc (czech) cannot be a word) Syntactic rules: the way the symbols/letters can be arranged, rules of structure (eg. where you are vs. Semantic rules: the meaning of statements, the shared meaning that we have agreed upon, when there is many potential meanings we rely on the pragmatic rule. Pragmatic rules: tell us the likely meaning of words looking at context, relationship etc. (refer to the 5 w"s: language is culture bound:
