Language And Communication Flashcards

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Language

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A system of cultural knowledge used to generate and interpret speech

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Symbol

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Anything people can perceive with their senses that stands for something else

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Speech

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The behavior that produces vocal symbols and is generated by language

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Phonology

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Consists of the categories and rules for forming vocal symbols

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Phonemes

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Basic element of phonology; the minimal category of speech sounds that serve to keep utterances apart

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Phonological rules

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State the order in which phonemes can occur

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Grammar

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The categories and rules for combining vocal sounds

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Morphemes

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Basic grammatical elements; consist of vocal symbols that form the minimal units of meaning in any language

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Grammatical rules

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Govern linguistic performance

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Semantics

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The categories and rules for relating vocal symbols to their referents

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Sociolinguistics rules

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Combine meaningful utterances with social situations into appropriate messages

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Metaphor

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A comparison that suggests how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in another

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Linguistic framing

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The use of metaphor and word choice by anyone, but especially politics and social groups, to present a particular pov

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