Comm 330 Ch 6

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bilingual

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The ability to speak two languages fluently or at least competently.

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co-cultural group

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Nondominant cultural groups that exist in a national culture, such as African American or Chinese American.

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code switching

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A technical term in communication that refers to the phenomenon of changing languages, dialects, or even accents.

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communication style

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The metamessage that contextualizes how listeners are expected to accept and interpret verbal messages.

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equivalency

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An issue in translation, the condition of being equal in meaning, value, quantity, and so on.

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high-context communication

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A style of communication in which much of the information is contained in the contexts and nonverbal cues rather than expressed explicitly in words. (Compare with low-context communication.)

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interlanguage

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A kind of communication that emerges when speakers of one language are speaking in another language. The native language's semantics, syntactics, pragmatics, phonetics, and language styles often overlap and create a third way of communicating.

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interpretation

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The process of verbally expressing what is said or written in another language.

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language acquisition

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The process of learning language.

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language policies

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Laws or customs that determine which language will be spoken, when and where.

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lingua franca

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A commonly shared language that is used as a medium of communication between people of different languages.

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low-context communication

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A style of communication in which much of the information is conveyed in words rather than in nonverbal cues and contexts. (Compare with high-context communication.)

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metamessage

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The meaning of a message that tells others how they should respond to the content of our communication based on our relationship to them; also known as tonal coloring.

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multilingual

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The ability to speak more than two languages fluently or at least competently.

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nominalist position

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The view that perception is not shaped by the particular language one speaks. (Compare with relativist position and qualified relativist position.)

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qualified relativist position

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A moderate view of the relationship between language and perception. This position sees language as a tool rather than a prison. (Compare with nominalist position and relativist position.)

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relativist position

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The view that the particular language individuals speak, especially the structure of the language, shapes their perception of reality and cultural patterns. (Compare with nominalist position and qualified relativist position.)

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social positions

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The places from which people speak that are socially constructed and thus embedded with assumptions about gender, race, class, age, social roles, sexuality, and so on.

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source text

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The original language text of a translation. (See also target text.)

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target text

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The new language text into which the original language text is translated. (See also source text.)

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translation

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The process of producing a written text that refers to something said or written in another language.