HSS 208: Blum, Chapter 1
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carolyngrace on August 23, 2011
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Key terms from Readings in Culture and Communications: Making Sense of Language. Chapter 1: Smiles, Winks, and Words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 analog | a system in which elements may grade indefinitely |
| arbitrariness | related by convention and rules, not be natural necessity, bond, or connection; unmotivated |
| behavorism | a psychological theory that sees all human bahvior (including thought) as learned; associated with the idea of the mind as a "blank slate" |
| call-system | nonlinguistic communicative repertoire of animals (including humans) |
| digital | a system in which elements are discrete, with absolute distinctions |
| duality of patterning/ double articulation | the property of smaller meaningless elements combining at a higher level to create meaning |
| gesticulation | waving arms and hands accompanying speech |
| gesture-call | a system of communication that has a number of gestures combined with vocalations |
| heritable | the quality of traits' variation steming from genes |
| iconicity | the trait of signs resembling the concept to which they refer |
| immediacy | the quality of acting in the present and responding to stimuli actually there |
| intonation | rhythm, stress, and pitch changed accompanying ordinary speech |
| morpheme | the smallest meaning element in language |
| manual language | a language involving use of the hands rather than speech |
| phonology | the study of the systematic sound pattern of a particular language |
| productivity | the capacity to say things that have never been said before |
| quotable gestures | convential hand and other gestures that must be learned; also called emblems |
| quotable vocalizations | convential expressions that are not words, such as m-hm and uh-oh |
| recursive | able to be repeatedly applied, as in recursive grammatical rules |
| sign language | a language using hand shapes, arms, and face |
| syntax | the order of items in an utterance |
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