COMM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Connotation, Denotation

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 101
• Professor: All

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The digital nature of language: digital code system. The connection between language and what it means it is arbitrary meaning there is no link between language and what it stands for. You have to understand what the symbol means otherwise you cannot use that language to communicate. Language relies on a common ground of shared meaning. Symbols: language being a symbol system is one that has a lot of rules with it and they occur at different levels . below. We could still figure out what it means but causes question in why they don"t say words in order. Connotation: personal meaning person assigns to a word. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. -- even though a sentence can follow syntactic rules it may not make any sense. Sometimes words can be put together different ways but they lack meaning. Contradictory and meaningless words that don"t mean anything.