COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pragmatics, Linguistics, Verbal (Rapper)
11 Oct 2017
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What is verbal communication: written or oral words we exchange (alberts et al. Instrumental: gets you what you need/what you want. Regulatory: helps you control the behavior of others. Personal language: express yourself, personality (more in private than public; humor or sarcasm) Imaginative: express your creativity or artistic ability (poetry, story telling) Language: phonology the study of sounds that compose individual languages and how those sounds communicate meaning, sounds > words > meaning, ex. ) Adele says thank you" slightly different than americans say it but we understand it: syntax rules that govern word order, how we combine nouns, verbs, adjectives into clauses to relay our message in an understandable format, ex. ) Someone can use bad grammar and we can still understand them: semantics the study of meaning, shared meaning, denotative meaning: dictionary or literal, connotative meaning: affective and interpretive understand, ex. ) Indirect: do you think you could drive me to the store? (ex.
