04:192:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cooperative Principle, Linguistic Relativity, Flight Attendant
10 Jun 2017
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Language influence the way we interpret the world. If there is no word in your language to represent some object or idea, you would not be able to comprehend or understand them. Speakers of different languages will experience the world differently. By assigning words to concepts, we can make them significant; by not naming them, we can cause them to be ignored. People work together to advance a conversation. Making contributions pertinent to the conversation topic. Differ in the way they construct sentences. Qualifiers (well, i may be wrong, but ) More emotional terms and passive verb forms. Words or expressions that differentiate between the sexes. It is not easy to follow normal patterns of talk without reinforcing sexual sterotypes. Any nonverbal behavior regardless of its communicative impact. A subset of nonverba lbehavior and can be defined as communication under three conditions. Perveiced conciously by either the sender or receiver.
