CMN 1148 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Policy Of Deliberate Ambiguity, Linguistic Determinism, Linguistics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Sherry Ferguson

Document Summary

We as humans are interdependent: reliant on other people for safety, survival, and support. Verbal communication: communication that involves spoken, written, or signed language. Words are symbols: something that stands for or suggests something else. Triangle of meaning: a model that explains the relationship among words, things and their meanings. The meaning we attach to symbols can either be denotative or connotative. Denotative: (the dictionary meaning) the literal or dictionary meaning of a word. Connotative: (personal meaning) meaning that takes context and relationships into account. All language has phonological rules: rules governing the sounds that appear in a language. Ex hawaiian words starting in a consenting and ending in a vowel. Syntactic rules: rules governing the arrangement of words and punctuation in a sentence. Semantic rules: rules that relate to the agreed-upon meaning of words. Example: beaver tail a fried pastry or the body part of an animal.