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sphr 262 1
lecture 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| define language | a socially shared system for representing comcepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols |
| define metalinguistic | our ability to talk about language, analyze it think about it separate it from its context and judge it |
| define paralinguistics | speech mechanisms that signal attitude or emotion. |
| paralinguistic characteristics | intonation, stress, rate, pause, duration |
| define nonlinguistics | the non-verbal elements of language |
| nonlinguistic elements | gestures, body language and posture, facial expressions, eye contact, body movement, phuysical distance or proximity. |
| the 3 components of language (in percentages) | 7% verbal (linguistics), 38% vocal (paralinguistics), 55% visual (nonlinguistics) |