Verbal communication and culture - The components and characteristics of verbal codes
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What are verbal codes?
What are the five interrelated components of language?
- Phonology: organization of sounds
- Morphology: combination of basic units (morphemes) to create words
- Syntax: grammatical and structural rules of language
- Semantics: meaning of words (1. denotation = literal; 2. connotation = cultural/emotional)
- Pragmatics: impact of language on human perception and behaviour
How is communication symbolic , but are not all symbols linguistic?
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What are the five common characteristics of languages?
- All languages have some way of naming objects, places or things
- way of naming action
- way of stating the negative
- systematic set of sounds combined with set of rules to create meaning with relationship between sound and alphabet
- set of formal grammatical rules for combining sounds and words to create meaning
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