Uses Of Language

Question 1

Intends only to vent some feeling, or perhaps to evoke some feeling from other people.

Answer 1

Expressive use of Language

Question 2

Aims to cause or to prevent some action by a human agent.

“Shut the door” “Read the textbook”

Answer 2

Directive use of language

Question 3

• -is spontaneous and instant
• -an interaction where both participants are present
• -tends to use informal vocabulary
• -characterized for being dynamic and transient
• -interruptions and overlaps are common
• -give the opportunity to rephrase or rethink and utterance

Answer 3

Spoken Language

Question 4

–The writer is usually distant from the reader
–No visual cues, no immediate feedback
–Organized and compact expression due to sentence structure, punctuation and formatting
–there is a time log between production and reception
Use formal vocabulary including words which are not usually used in spoken language

Answer 4

Written Language

Question 5

Is an arbitrary representation of something else.

This may be an object, an idea, a place, a person or a relationship

Answer 5

Symbol

Question 6

These are consequences or indications of something specific, which human beings cannot change by arbitrary actions or labels

Answer 6

Signs

Question 7

The transactional use of symbols, influenced, guided and understood in the context of relationships.

Answer 7

Communication

Question 8

Once again, this is an arbitrary representation.

Answer 8

A Symbol

Question 9

Communication requires that Symbols convey _______?

Answer 9

meaning

Question 10

Involves the way in which symbols take on meaning in a social context or society as they are used over time

Answer 10

Social construction

Question 11

The means through which a message is conveyed.

This will also impact the meaning of the massage.

Answer 11

The Medium

How the message is produced and given to someone.

Question 12

These are basic formes of knowledge that provide a definition of a scenario
Both people agree on the nature of the situation

Answer 12

Frames

Help people understand their role in the conversation and what is expected of them.

Question 13

Communication is Both
A) Convays information or discribes facts. (FACTS)
B) Presents your particular versions of the event or facts. (SPIN)

Answer 13

A) Representational
&
B) Presentational

Question 14

You are who you are. Not just by name but the kind of person you are.
You-nique!
Such as a History deep inside, a childhood set of experiences that make you who you are.
A characteristic (something that you posess)
A performance (something that you do)
And partly, a construction of society

Answer 14

Your Identity

Question 15

The process of actively selecting, organizing and evaluating information, activities, people and essentially everything that makes up your world.

Answer 15

Perception

Question 16

These are mental structures that are used to organize information in part by clustering or linking associated material.

Stored information

Answer 16

Schemata

Question 17

Your best-case of something, such as your ideal partnership or relationship you’d like to have.

Answer 17

Prototypes

Question 18

Bipolar dimensions used to measure and evaluate things.

These constructs are narrow and have more characteristics.

Answer 18

Personal constructs

Question 19

These are guides for behavior developed from our system of knowledge. We use these when we are performing social roles and enacting identities in everyday life.

Answer 19

Scripts

Question 20

When you think about persons as having some true personal, private and an essential core, covered with layers of secrecy, privacy and convention

Answer 20

Self-concept

Question 21

The revelation of information that people could not know unless you made it known to them.

Answer 21

Self-disclosure

Question 22

Your sence of self is influenced language frames, culture,origin, membership and other peoples though about you.

Answer 22

Symbolic Identity

Question 23

Involves an effort to communicate some content.

This kind of use presumes that the content of what is being communicated is actually true.

Answer 23

Informative use of Language.

Question 24

Any information that is expressed without using words.

Tone of voice, body movement, etc. . .

Answer 24

Nonverbal Communication

93% is constructed from Nonverbal Communication

Question 25

Movements such as the face, hands, feet, trunk and other body parts.

Answer 25

Body motion

Question 26

Movements of the face that directly translate, augment or contradict verbal communication

Answer 26

Facial expressions

Question 27

Hand signs “ok”, “I want a ride”, peace, power, etc. . . .

Answer 27

Emblems

Question 28

Body movements and facial expressions that accent, reinforce or emphasize an accompanying verbal message.

Answer 28

Illustrators

Question 29

Nonverbal behaviors that control, monitor and maintain the back-and-forth interaction between speaker and listeners
–these cues tell us when to continue, repeat, hurry, elaborate, make things more interesting or let someone else speak.

Answer 29

Regulators

Question 30

Nonverbal behaviors that express emotions and feelings

• -“slouch” that you are sad.
• -slam your hand to show you are angry, etc. . .

Answer 30

Affect Displays

Question 31

Help us to feel at ease in various communication situations

Answer 31

Adaptors
Self-adaptors:
1) not directed at others but rather serve some personal need.
2) scratching, smoothing your hair, straitening ones clothes.