Comm330 exam1
Terms
undefined, object
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- hannah
- titty
- Schramm's model
- comm only happens if fields of experience overlap (both ppl have similar experience)
- semantic noise
- when you don't understand meaning of the msg
- psychological noise
- whats going on in your head that distracts you
- analogic codes
- direct representation of what they represent (ex: pictures) you don't need to know language to understand
- digital codes
- gives many details about things not there (ex: paragraph)
- proxemics
- use of space, ex: prisons, schools, rodney dorms vs. new dorms, intimate (0-18"), personal (18"-4'), social (4-12'), public (12-25')
- vocalics
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tone, volume, pitch, accents
*non-fluencies/vocal segregates: um, well (nervous)
*rate of speech: slower=less credible, faster=social situations - kinesics
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body language
*emblems: only non-verbal cue with direct verbal meaning (put finger up for shhh)
*illustrators: pointing finger & saying LOOOK!
*regulators: tell you when to talk/stop
*affect displays: dad crosses arms when angry
*adaptors: show nervous, self-adaptors: biting nails, object-adaptors: play w/ pen - physical appearance
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anything you do w/ your body
*artifacts: things we use to decorate selves - gaze
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eye contact
*expressive function: convey emotion
*regulative function: look away when not interested - denotive meaning
- public, conventional meaning
- connotive meaning
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private, emotional meaning
*what it means to you - syntactics
- how words are combined and ordered in grammatical sequences
- syntactic meaning
- meaning based on word order
- pragmatics
- language as it is used in actual interaction
- speech acts
- promising, questioning, threatening, praising, declaring, warning, requesting
- constitutive rules
- tells us how to recongnize speech acts
- regulative rules
- identify if speech acts are appropriate or inappropriate in a given context
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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2 parts:
*linguistic determinism: says that language determines the way we interpret the world
*linguistic relativity: if language determines thought, then speakers of diff languages will experience the world diff - elaborated code
- middle-class speakers, more grammatically complex
- restricted code
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working-class
commonly shared language - female register
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qualifiers (kind of, maybe)
tag endings (right? ok?)
disclaimers (i may be wrong, but...) - critical theorists
- whenever we choose words, we also choose a point of view
- spontaneous communication
- nonvoluntary display of inner emotions that other ppl pick up on
- territoriality
- assumed ownership of space
- facial blend
- when emotion on face starts to fade
- vocal qualities
- loudness, pitch, tempo, intensity, etc.
- vocal characterizers
- laughing, crying, yelling, moaning, whining
- horizontal
- everyone in group treated the same
- vertical
- status, hierarchy
- platonic relationship
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opposite of romantic
not sexual - behavioral control
- the need ppl have to control their lives
- metacommunicating
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talking about communicating
"did you understand what I was telling you before?" - gestalt
- instead of focusing on one behavior, ppl take the whole package of nonverbal behaviors to determine meaning
- powerless speech
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when ppl use tag endings
used more by women