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An arbitrary (unclear) connection between words and the ideas/things that they represent
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Symbolic/symbol
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Examples: the number two does not appear to visibly show anything two-like
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Symbolic language
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Reflect the ways in which users of a language assign meaning to a particular linguistic symbol, usually a word
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Semantic rules
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Examples: people agree that a “fork” is used to eat with and that a “comb”
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Semantic rules
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Statements that have more than one commonly accepted definition
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Equivocal language
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Examples: “I love you”, “period” “she was on fire”
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Equivocal language
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Gain their meaning by comparison
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Relative words
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Example: one student at CNU may think the hockey team is good, while another
may believe the team plays poorly |
Relative words
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Statements that contain or imply the word *is* lead to the mistaken assumption that people are consistent and unchanging
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Static evaluation
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Ex: consider Debbie may only be a downer when people around her have been discouraging
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Static evaluation
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Language that is vague in nature
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Abstract language
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Language including specific things that people say or do
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Behavioral language
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Illustrates how the same phenomenon can be
described at various levels of specificity and abstraction |
Abstraction ladder
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The rules that govern the way words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Syntax is the arrangement of words in a sentence
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Syntactic rules
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What we rely on to decide how to interpret messages in a given context
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Pragmatic rules
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