Chapter 1 - The Nature of Communication Flashcards
Communication
Behavior that affects the behavior of others by the transmission of information.
Code
A complex pattern of associations of the units of a communication system. In language, those units could be sound units; meaningful units, such as words; or meaningful units that are larger than words, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Encode
To put a message in a code
Grammar
System (pattern) of elements (such as words) and of the rules of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics inherent in a language. The term also refers to the study of those elements and rules.
Decode
To react to it in a way that reflects the reason that the sender encoded it
Phonological system
The grammar (pattern) of sounds of that language
Lexicon
A mental dictionary, the vocabulary that one has stored in the brain
Morphological rules
The rules used to construct words from their component parts
Syntax
The set of rules a person uses to form units of language larger than words. The term also refers to the study of those rules.
Semantics
The study of meaning
Linguistic competence
The (mostly) subconscious knowledge of language that allows a speaker to create a potentially infinite number of messages.
Productivity
The ability to produce messages that one has never produced before and to understand messages that one has never heard or seen before.
Linguistic performance
The application of linguistic competence to actually producing an utterance
Delivery system of language
The way in which knowledge of language (linguistic competence) is used to send a message. The three basic ways of delivering a message linguistically are speech, writing, and sign language.
Verbal
Language: speech, writing, or sign language