CMNS 304W Midterm: Midterm Study Guide Main Points
27 Nov 2017
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X intersection of language and culture is the outline of this course. Rhetoric & argumentation + dialogue & listening p. 23. Postmodern morality: everyday language & politness p. 38. Triangle model explains how language & culture intersect . Content (what?) (top of triangle: content answers the question of what we"re doing / talking about, it"s data/ the stuff people use to support the argument of what"s true and what"s false. Effect (why?: outcomes/artifacts : the physical and intangible things we create through communicating with each other, describes our relationships, speaks to our emotions, intentions are the results of the outcomes, emotions, and relationships. Hermeneutics: is the art of interpreting things: to read in between the lines of the text. Semantics: the study of meaning: denotative: the surface meaning of a word, connotative: the meaning of a word in it"s context, deeper connotative > deeper connotative.
