Chapter 4 - Language Flashcards
Nonverbal communication
Symbols there aren’t words such as facial expressions posture and tone of voice
Symbols
Representations of people events and all that goes on around us and in us
Verbal communication
Symbols in the form of spoken or written words
Arbitrary
Verbal symbols are not intrinsically connected to what they represent
Ambiguous
It doesn’t have clear-cut precise meanings
Abstract
Words are not the concrete or tangible phenomena to which they refer
Brute Facts
Objective, concrete phenomena and activities
Institutional facts
The meanings of brute facts based on human interpretation
Communication rules
Shared understandings among members of particular culture or social group about what communication means and what behaviors are appropriate in various situations.
Regulative rules
Regulate interaction by specifying when, how, where, and with whine to communicate about certain things
Constitutive rules
Define what a particular communication means or stands for
Punctuation
A way to mark a flow of activity into meaningful units
Totalizing
Responding to a person as if one label totally represents that person
Loaded language
Words that slant perceptions and thus meanings exceedingly
Reappropriation
When a group reclaims a term used by others to degrade its members
