Unit 2

Language

UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Demonstrate the ability to assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of interpersonal strategies used in various interpersonal situations, including mediated and face to face interactions.
  • Demonstrate skill in selecting and using a variety of communication strategies and responses based on situational contexts, goals, and human needs.
  • Differentiate between theories that explain interpersonal interaction.
  • Demonstrate the ability to analyze and critique verbal and nonverbal messages in interpersonal interactions.
  • Distinguish between different aspects of meaning in language use.
  • Compare and contrast connotative and denotative meanings.
  • Identify rules of language via grammar.
  • Recognize how verbal communication affects cognition.
  • Argue how language can construct one’s reality.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Module 1: Nature of language

  • Language and meaning
  • Language is symbolic
  • Triangle of meaning
  • Role of definitions
  • Rules of language
  • Language acquisition

Module 2: Functions of verbal communication

  • Reality construction
  • Categorization
  • Cognition

contributors

Daniel Usera & Gretchen Harries

licenses and Attributions

Information from this Unit was consulted and adopted from:

Survey of Communication, Verbal Communication Chapter 2" by Scott Payton & Laura Hahn is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

A Primer on Communication Studies. Authored by: Anonymous. Provided by: Anonymous. License: CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike