CMN 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Linguistics, Sarcasm, Connotation
9 Jun 2016
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Connotative people that communicate using words has as equal responsibility and have the other person understand as the sender of the receiver. To create and verbal and a non-verbal response. Words have power to affect our thoughts and our action. Symbol - a word, sound, or visual device that represents a thought, concept, or object. Referent - the thing that a symbol represents. Thought - the mental process of creating a category, idea, or image triggered by the referent or symbol. Denotation: a literal, restrictive definition of a word. A student is a person who is enrolled for study in a school or college. Connotation: the person and subjective meaning of a word. A student is a person engaged in applying the mind to acquire knowledge or a happy-go-lucky party animal. Concrete: a word is concrete if we can experience its referent with one of our senses.
