Chapter 07 Flashcards
It means consisting of words
Verbal
Is a set of rules about the use of words in the creation of messages
Verbal code
Verbal codes include both…
Oral spoken language
Non-oral written language
Essential ingredients of verbal codes
Symbols
Rule systems
Essential ingredient of both verbal and nonverbal codes
Symbols
Words, actions or objects that stand for or represent units of meaning
Symbols
5 rule systems that constitute verbal codes
Phonology
Morphology
Semantics
Syntatics
Pragmatics
The basic sound units of a language
Phonemes
Rules for combining phonemes
Phonology
Governs the composition and ordering of the symbols
When you listen to someone who speaks a language other than your own, you will often hear ___ sounds
Strange
Phonological rules of language tell speakers which:
Sounds to use
How to order them
English depends on how many number pf phonemes
45
_____ of another language requires ___in reproducing its sounds accurately.
Mastery
Practice
___ of 2nd language speakers can sometimes provoke ______ reactions in native speakers.
Accent
Negative
Phonemes combine to form ___ which are the smallest units of meaning in a language
Morphemes
45 english phonemes can be used to generate more than _____
50 million morphemes
_____\ can have very unintended meanings
Pronunciation errors
Study of the meaning of words
Semantics
Most convenient and thorough source of information about the semantics of a language
Dictionary
It is the study of the relationship between words and what they stand for or represent
Semantics
Communicating ________necessitates learning a new set of semantics rules
Interculturally
When learning a 2nd language much time is devoted to learning the appropriate ____ bet the words and the specific objects, events or feelings that the language system assigns to them.
Associations
______ visiting great britian will confront new meanings for words- for example boot refers to the storage place in a car
US AMERICAN
Public, objective, and legal meanings of a word
Denotative meaning
Meanings that are found in the dictionary or book
Denotative meanings
Personal, emotionally charged, private and specific to a particular person.
Connotative meanings
Relationship of words to one another,
Syntactics
The effect of language on human perceptions and behaviors
Pragmatics
A study that focuses on how language is actually used
Pragmatic
It considers how users of a particular language are able to understand the meanings of specific utterances in particular contexts
Pragmatics