COMM 1101 Lecture 7: Chapter Five notes
11 May 2017
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What is verbal communication: words, pronunciation, meanings, linguistic variation. What is language: a rule-guided system of symbols that allows us to translate messages into meaning. Functions and components: verbal communication is the written or oral words or sounds we exchange, language plays a central role in communication. The functions of language: the instrumental function, the regulatory function, the informative function-transmits info, the heuristic function-generates knowledge in some way, the interactional function-interacting when communication, the personal language function, the imaginative function. Language has an imaginative function: harry potter was created through language, children often love to have stories read to them. Components of language: phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Phonology: how sounds are organized, basic unit is the phoneme, phonetic differences can lead to confusion, dyad. Syntax: rules that govern word order, not go i you to want do, blue sways sleep gregariously. Semantics: meaning, eats shoots and leaves, factors affecting meaning, denotative meaning, connotative meaning.
