Verbal Communication
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- Malapropism
- confusing of one word or phrase for another that sounds similar
- Polarization
- describing/evaluating what you observe in extremes
- Word Picture
- short statement or story that illustrates or describes emotion
- Linguistic Determination
- theory that describes new use of language determines or influences thoughts and perceptions
- Jargon
- Specialized terms/abbreviation restricted code
- Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
- language shapes our thoughts/culture, thoughts/culture shapes our language
- Linguistic Relativity
- The theory that each language includes some unique features that are not found in other languages
- World View
- culturally acquired perspective for interpreting experiences
- Allness
- tendency to make unqualified often untrue generalizations
- Denotive Meaning
- literal/restrictive meaning
- Restricted Code
- Set of words that have particular meaning to person/culture/group
- Static Evaluation
- pronouncement that does not take possibility of change into consideration
- Elaborated Code
- conversation that uses many words+various ways of describing an idea or concept to communicate its meaning
- Connotative Meaning
- personal/subjective meaning
- Indexing
- avoid generalizations by using statements that seperate the situation