SPC 1017 FINAL FSU ZIEGLER WITH REVIEW
EXAM 2024-2025
*Cognitive Development - Answer Language, mental imagery, reasoning,
problem-solving, and memory development all contribute to the development of
your brain's thinking and organizing processes. Began before birth.
*Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Answer Suggests that the language you use influences
or dictates how you perceive and think about the world around you. Your language
affects and influences your ideas.
Semantic Triangle - The answer indicates a direct relationship between symbols
(words) and thinking. Symbol-Thought-Referent = three points of the triangle
Thought - Words we use when thinking about the symbol.
Referent - The image we produce as a result of the symbol.
Denotative Meaning - Answer Dictionary Definition
Connotative meaning - ANSWER Definition based on thoughts or associations one
has with a word (freedom, love)
Language Environment - ANSWER Context in Verbal Communication
4 Elements
People: who was there?
What is their purpose in being there? (to prepare for the final examination)
Rules of Communication: no cursing
, Actual Talk
Ritual Language - Answer ANSWERs are required of you; you learn them while
you are very young from your parents or others.
Euphemism - Answer. Inoffensive words or phrases are swapped for other ones that
may be seen as unpleasant.
-Died vs. passed away
-make tougher situations easier to deal with.
-appropriate language.
Doublespeak - Answer Words purposefully produced for political objectives, to
impose a favourable mental attitude on those who use them.
Doesn't always have to do with nasty language; it's always about a political agenda
-IRS against. taxman
-appropriate language.
Style is the outcome of how you pick and organize words and sentences.
-differences between men and women
Women utilize rapport-talk, which is language aimed to lead to intimacy with
people, match experiences, and form relationships.
-used to social networks.
Report-Talk - ANSWER: Men utilize this more. The speaker's purpose is to
preserve status, exhibit knowledge and talents, and remain at centre stage.
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