Chapter 3: Verbal Communication Flashcards
The system of symbols we used to think about and communicate experiences and feelings
Language
What you used to describe people, things, and situations in your mind
Cognitive language
The rules of a language
Grammar
Illustrates how people should adapt their language and nonverbal behaviors to the person group or context
Communication accommodation theory
Learning words and how do use them effectively is the process of
Communication acquisition
Managing Conversations and relationships
Ritualizing
Communicating a creative idea
Imagining
Refers to the meaning that the words have
Semantics
Refers to the ability to use them appropriately
Pragmatics
The excepted definition of the word
Denotative meaning
The emotional or attitudinal response to it
Connotative meaning
Ranks communication from specific, which insures clarity, to general and vague
Abstraction latter
Avoiding specifics
Evasion
Using unclear terms
Equivocation
Using substitutions for possibly upsetting terms
Euphemisms
A groups informal language
Slang
A groups technical language
Jargon
Language that offense, threatens, or insults a person or group based on race, color, gender, or other identifiable characteristics
Hatespeech
Includes words or expressions that are considered inappropriate, pretentious, damaging, mean, sarcastic, or offensive to others
Hurtful language
How’s subtle meaning that influence perception negatively
Biased language
Attempts to meet culturally appropriate norms
Politically correct language
Involves expressions that are considered insulting, rude, vulgar, or disrespectful
Profanity
Involves language that meet socially appropriate norms
Civility
A type of accommodation and which communicators change from one repertoire or potation “code” to another as the situation warrants
Code switching
A more formal, polite, or quotation mainstream” language
High language
More informal and often involves Lane
Low language
We use these to find the most effective language for a given situation
Speech repertoires
Suggests that are words influence are thinking by shaping or determining how we see the world
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
