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Comm 114 Exam 2 With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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- Comm 114
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- California State University - Fullerton
Comm 114 Exam 2 With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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Comm 114 Exam 2 With Complete Solutions
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language ANS✔✔ a structured system of symbols used for communicating
meaning
The Nature of Language ANS✔✔ Language is symbolic
The Nature of Language (Arbitrary)
Language is arbitrary (mostly) ANS✔✔ Most words have only an arbitrary
connection to their meanings
Words literally mean whatever we-as users of a language-choose for them
to mean
An exception is onomatopoeia, a word formed by imitating the sound
associated with its meaning
Phonological rules ANS✔✔ Pronunciation of words Syntactic rules: Proper
order of words
syntactic rules ANS✔✔ the way we put words and phrases to create well-
formed sentences and they very with the language spoken.
Semantic rules ANS✔✔ Meanings of individual words Pragmatic rules:
Social/cultural interpretations
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pragmatic rules ANS✔✔ apply social and cultural information to the
interpretations of statements
Denotative meaning ANS✔✔ the literal or dictionary definition of a word
Connotative meaning ANS✔✔ a word's implications
Loaded language ANS✔✔ words with strongly positive or negative
connotative meanings
• Cancer
• Peace
• Family
• Freedom
denotative meanings of loaded language ANS✔✔ may be emotionally
neutral
Semantic Triangle ANS✔✔ symbol, referent, reference
loaded language ANS✔✔ terms that carry strongly positive or strongly
negative connotations
ambiguous language ANS✔✔ language having more than one possible
meaning
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