CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Political Correctness, Jargon, Doublespeak
30 Jan 2018
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What are the characteristics of language: symbolic, rule bound, culture bound, dynamic. Symbols: in other words, meanings are in people, not in words or other symbols(hockey) Language is symbolic: denotative vs. connotative meaning: denotative or dictionary meaning, connotative or personal meaning. Language is rule bound: phonological rules: rules governing how sounds combine to form words. Language is rule-bound: syntactic rules: rules governing how we arrange words and punctuation or other symbols. Language is rule-bound: semantic rules: rules concerning the agreed-upon and shared meanings of words, which can vary over time, across cultures, and according to persona; experience. Language is rule-bound: pragmatic rules: rules that take context into account in arriving at meaning. Meanings depends on who is involved, what the message is about, when and where the interaction is occurring, and why the discussion taking place. Language is culture-bound: some words exist only in one culture, some say that language determines how we see the world.
