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    This document discusses verbal communication and language. It covers several key points: - Language uses symbols like words that societies arbitrarily assign meanings to in order to communicate. - There are two main codes of communication: verbal and non-verbal. - The meanings of words are not inherent, but rather come from the associations societies make between words and what they represent. Words can have different meanings across cultures and groups. - Language shapes our perceptions and cultures influence how we understand language. It allows us to describe our experiences.

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    Verbal Communication

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    This document discusses verbal communication and language. It covers several key points: - Language uses symbols like words that societies arbitrarily assign meanings to in order to communicate. - There are two main codes of communication: verbal and non-verbal. - The meanings of words are not inherent, but rather come from the associations societies make between words and what they represent. Words can have different meanings across cultures and groups. - Language shapes our perceptions and cultures influence how we understand language. It allows us to describe our experiences.

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    A brief presentation regarding verbal communication in the discipline Oral communication

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    This document discusses verbal communication and language. It covers several key points: - Language uses symbols like words that societies arbitrarily assign meanings to in order to communicate. - There are two main codes of communication: verbal and non-verbal. - The meanings of words are not inherent, but rather come from the associations societies make between words and what they represent. Words can have different meanings across cultures and groups. - Language shapes our perceptions and cultures influence how we understand language. It allows us to describe our experiences.

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    Verbal Communication

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    This document discusses verbal communication and language. It covers several key points: - Language uses symbols like words that societies arbitrarily assign meanings to in order to communicate. - There are two main codes of communication: verbal and non-verbal. - The meanings of words are not inherent, but rather come from the associations societies make between words and what they represent. Words can have different meanings across cultures and groups. - Language shapes our perceptions and cultures influence how we understand language. It allows us to describe our experiences.

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    Verbal Communication

    Language is a collection of
    symbols, letters, or words
    with arbitrary(based on
    individual discretion)
    meanings ,which are
    governed by rules and used
    to communicate

    The two major codes of


    communication are
    Verbal
    Non-verbal

    You cannot unring a bell.


    Outbursts can permanently taint a
    our perception of celebrities.
    No amount of apology can ever
    reverse the damage

    LANGUAGE IS ARBITRARY
    Words dont contain meanings. Words
    are meaningful only after we have
    associated them with some referent.
    Words common in two cultures
    sometimes signify different things.ie
    conversation in French and in English
    Words often generate very different
    associations even when people share
    the same language

    SYMBOLS and REFERENTS


    Symbol is something used for
    representing something else.(image of
    lion symbol of courage)
    Referent is the object for which the
    symbol stands.
    In English verbal symbol for the star in
    our solar system is sun
    The French use the verbal symbol soleil
    The German Sonne

    Disk is the symbol given to a storage


    device.
    It could have been called a blank
    or urg
    So initially ,no real association exists
    between a word we agree to call
    something and its referent.

    Once we agree on a system of verbal


    symbols we can use language to
    communicate.

    DENOTATION and
    CONNOTATION
    Denotation:the primary association a
    word has for most members of a
    linguistic community.
    Connotation:refers to other
    secondary associations a word has
    for one or more members of that
    community

    NOTE:All people who speak English


    belong to the same linguistic
    community: yet within that
    community certain groups exist for
    whom even the primary associations,
    or denotations, of a given word are
    different.
    In England you take a lift not an
    elevator
    You take the underground not the

    PRIVATE MEANING
    Language can be used
    idiosyncratically, assigning meanings
    to words without agreement and, in
    effect ,creating our own private
    language.
    One can decide ,for example ,to call
    trees reds or cows.

    SHARED MEANING
    If we assign privat meanings to words,we can use them
    to communicate with someone only if welet that person
    knowwhat the referentsof these words are.
    Text messaging hs lead to the formation of a new
    language.
    Tnx-thanks
    P911-parent alert
    @TEOTD at the end of the day
    Googled
    Plutoed-demoted
    Punked cheated ,ripped off
    Brangelina

    LANGUAGE &CULTURE
    Culture creates a lens through which
    we perceive the world and create
    shared meaning
    Sapir Whorf hypothesis: Our
    perception of reality is determined by
    our thought processes and our
    thought processes are limited by our
    language and therefore, that
    language shapes our reality.

    People who use color in their


    work(artists ,designers)probably use many
    more color terms than do those for who
    color is not so important(fire-fighters,
    police officers).
    The first group might use persimmon,
    puce,lavender,and fuschia,while the
    second group limits their vocabulary(and
    thus their perception) to orange ,red,
    purple and pink.

    Thus critics note thought and


    language may not be intimately
    related, but experience and language
    are. Our need to describe our
    environment and the items within it
    cause us to create language to do so

    Language is abstract
    Words stand for ideas and things but
    they are not the same as those
    things

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