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Language (Vocab (Behavioral Description: An account that refers only to…
Language
Vocab
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Convergence: Accommodating one's speaking style to another person, who usually is desirable or has higher status.
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Divergence: A linguistic strategy in which speakers emphasize difference between their communicative style and others in order to create distance.
Abstract language: Language that lacks specificity or does not refer to observable behavior or other sensory data.
Emotive Language: language that conveys the senders attitude rather than simply offering an objective description.
Equivocal Language: Language that conveys the sender's attitude rather than simply offering an objective description.
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Jargon: The specialized vocabulary that is used as a kind of shorthand by people with common backgrounds and experience.
Vocab
Linguistic inter group bias: The tendency to label people and behaviors in terms that reflect their in-group or out of group status.
Linguistic Relativism: A moderate form of linguistic determinism that argues that language exerts a strong influence on perceptions of the people who speak it
Language: A collection of symbols, governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals.
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Sex Role: the social orientation that governs behavior, in contrast to a persons biological gender
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Syntactic rules: rules that govern the ways in which symbols can be arranged as opposed to the meanings of those symbols
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Troublesome Language
Language can be a blessing and a curse things can be misunderstood or people can over react to things. Emotions can get the best of people
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Different types of language can have different effects and the same word can have different meanings to many people.
Gender and Language
There are similarities and differences between both genders and how they use language. Some of the reasons for this are because of society and culture while some are biological.
Names
An example of language is the power of a name and that a simple name can have a positive connotation while a more confusing one will be looked at differently.