COMM ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Profanity, Feminist Movement, Sports Illustrated

• School: UCLA
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM ST 10
• Professor: Professor Suman

Document Summary

Functions: stand for/refer to things in the world, arbitrary relationship between word and meaning, members of a culture had decided it, agreed on by humans, not actually connect to one another, there are exceptions. Onomatopoeia: bang, boom, crash: here there are relationships by forming the word based off the sound: problems that words can have. Talking about the same thing with different words. Equivocation: words have more than one commonly known definition. Love can have a lot of different meanings. Equivocation can be cleared up, but not really a bad thing. Nothing like i"ve seen before or it"s ugly . A place a room a classroom ucla classroom . A pleasant word substituted for a blunt one. It softens the punch of what you want to say. Hate groups unhappy groups, cemetery garden of honor. What a cheap hotel to one person, may be a pricey one for another person. Make you believe people are always like this.