17. Language and Language Use Flashcards
Constructing utterances to suit the audience’s knowledge
Audience design
Information that is shared by people who engage in a conversation
Common ground
Group to which a person belongs
Ingroup
Words and expressions
Lexicon
A tendency for people to characterize positive things about their ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their outgroups using more sbstract expressions
Linguistic intergroup bias
Group to which a person does not belong
Outgroup
A stimnulus presented to a person reminds him or her about other ideas associated with the stimulus
Priming
The hypothesis that the language that people use determines their thoughts
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
A mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description
Situation model
The hypothesis that the human brain has evolved, so that humans can maintain larger ingroups
Social brain hypothesis
Networks of social relationships among individuals through which information can travel
Social Networks
Rules by which words are strung together to form sentences
Syntax
