Unit 2
Language
UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 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
contributors
Daniel Usera & Gretchen Harries
licenses and Attributions
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.
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