COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Pragmatics, George Orwell

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1
• Professor: french

Document Summary

Phonology: the way sounds are combined to form words. Syntax: how words are combined into sentences. Productivity is a feature of syntax infinite number of messages can be created out of a finite number of words by applying rules of syntax. Semantics: the meanings of words on the basis of their relationship to one another and to elements in the environment; study of meaning. Arbitrary relationship between a symbol (word) and what it stands for. Meaning is interactively constructed, negotiated turn by turn. Meaning: not in words or speakers but in interaction. Principle of non-identity (a is not a): words are not the same as the real things they represent. Principle of non-allness: a is not all a. Our language can never represent all of the object, event, or person to which we are referring the map is not the territory language = map; meanings = territory. Meta-communication: use language to talk about our use of language.