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Defining Language:Characteristics of Language
● conventionality - a conventional usage, practice, or thing
● Productivity
● Displacement -being able to refer to things that you can’t currently see
Ex:the past
Structure of Language:
● Phonology:Sound
Certain phonies that go with certain languages
● Morphology: Meaning (ex:dog or -ed/past tense
● Syntax:order
Syntax and meaning are separate
Ex:(man bites dog; dog bites man)
Language and culture(what we can understand what the characteristics of language)
● Sapphire-whorf hypothesis(people of different languages perceive their words
different)
-the thought that language really matters
-speakers of different language perceive their words differently
● Sociolinguists
-dialects
Not spoken by the dominant group
● Code Switching- moving between languages
● Non-verbal communication
Gestures,facial expression,posture
Mention in first paragraph of online Activity
Moral actions in the form of language
● Gap between reasoning and action
They disagree with this theory:
● Separate Worlds View
Boys& Men= Justice perspective
Girls&Women= Care perspective
The argument (they agree with
Dispute is part of peer groups
● Purpose of Disputes
-Attempt to position oneself
-differentiate in and out group
● Relational Aggression
-getting another person to be aggressive
-Rumors and exclusion
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