CD 225 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
25 Jan 2017
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An exchange of ideas between sender(s) and receiver(s) Involves message transmission and response or feedback: sociolinguistics. The study of how culture, setting, and participants influence. Where you interact affects how and what you"ll say. Means of communication: communication includes verbal and nonverbal, the primary vehicle of human communication is language and speech is the primary means of language expression for most individuals. A socially shared code that is used to represent concepts. Uses arbitrary symbols that are combined in rule-governed ways: some language characteristics: Dynamic scheme: language consists of rules that dictate how these words are arranged in sentences, grammar: The rules of language: linguistic intuition: The recognition of right and wrong grammar rules. Native speakers of language have these intuitions: generative. Mean that each utterance is freshly created. You present your own ideas in an individual way: dynamic: Languages change over time: language has three primary components:
