Chapter 5: Thought & Language Flashcards
1
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Hockett’s 13 design features
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- vocal/auditory channel
- broadcast transmission/directional reception
- rapid fading, transitoriness
- interchangeability
- total feedback
- specialization
- semanticity
- arbitrariness
- discreteness
- displacement
- productivity
- traditional transmission
- duality of patterning
2
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vocal/auditory channel
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- communication involves transfer between the 2
- traditional form of language, but has evolved like ASL
3
Q
broadcast transmission/directional reception
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- signal is sent in many directions but perceived in 1
4
Q
rapid fading, traditoriness
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- verbal signal fade quickly
5
Q
interchangeability
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- speaker of language can reproduce any messay they understand
6
Q
total feedback
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- speaker hears everything they say
7
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specialization
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- vocal apparatus used in speech is specialized for speech production
8
Q
semanticity
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- language has semantic content
- language has to have meaning
9
Q
arbitrariness
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- signal need not refer to physical characteristic of the referent
10
Q
discreteness
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- language is composed of a discrete, finite set of units
11
Q
displacement
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- language can refer to things that are not immediately present
12
Q
productivity
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- finite set of units capable of producing an infinite set of ideas
13
Q
traditional transmission
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- language is transmitted by traditional teaching, learning & observation
14
Q
duality of patterning
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- small number of meaningless units combines to produce meaning
15
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conceptual metaphors
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- constrain thought
- thermostat study
- ex: “I jog my memory”
