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33 Cards in this Set
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semiotic perspective |
language is arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract |
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sign, signifier, signified |
signifier is the spoken or written word; the signified is the connotative meaning of the term; the sign is the preferred meaning. |
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post semiotic approach to language |
alternative to semiotics, challenging the structural formalism of de Saussure; resists viewing words as just representations. |
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atomistic |
a view that leads people to break living speech down into smaller and smaller bits so we can analyze it |
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sapir-whorf hypothesis |
1. words determine what we can and cannot understand. 2. Our thoughts are shaped by our language. 3. Also, reality is shaped by our language. |
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speech act theory |
some language does more than simply name the state of affairs- it creates them |
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constatives |
words that describe or identify a state of affairs; "It is 70 degrees outside" |
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performatives |
words create a reality; "I declare today spider-man day" |
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locutionary act |
the simple surface level of a speech act |
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illocutionary act |
the effect of a particular message |
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citationality |
shortcuts taken in our meaning making. Skips over the context, specifics, and complexities to create an easier reference. |
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political correctness |
a form of citation, a cultural shortcut. Positions as inauthentic someone whose perspective we don't share. |
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trope |
A figure of speech that stands in for or condenses meanings and assumptions without a very complicated understanding of them. |
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self-fulfilling prophecy |
where what we believe to be true becomes reality through our actions |
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A key difference between APA and MLA |
APA has the year listed towards the beginning while MLA has the year, publishing company, and how the document was published at the very end of the citation. |
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consent |
gradual process of verbal and physical affirmations throughout any given sexual encounter |
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interpersonal communication |
interaction/exchange that occurs between people who are in an interdependent relationship; occurs when people have some sort of commitment to or stake in each other |
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the self |
Who we are is a complication of choices that you arrange for (the benefit) of those around |
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metacommunication |
communication about communication. The frame in which a particular play/dialogue is happening. |
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relational dialectics |
Baxtor and Montgomery's theory that shows us how our relational lives are always in flux and always subject to contradictory impulses. Different tensions between connection and separation, certainty and uncertainty, and openness and closedness. |
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I-thou relationship |
seeing the other person as a relationship rather than an experience. |
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% of families w/ two parents and biological children |
6%-16% |
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Relationship between satisfaction w/ adoptive family and the desire to know birth family |
Adoptees desire to know their birth parents isn't a reflection of their satisfaction w/ their adoptive family. Its a normal part of the adoptee experience to want to know ones origins. |
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representation |
replica or mirror of something already there/occured. Films like "Crash" and "The help" are "just" a mirror for society, reflecting what we already believe to be true. |
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interpellation |
way a subject becomes a subject is through a call and response communication pattern such that, when one person responds to another's call, they become the desired subject, the person who takes up the hail, and thus, is the subject called for. |
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resistance |
the use of popular culture, to resist dominant messages. The "art of making do" according to Fiske (1989a). Critical reading and working against dominant messages or discourses that one might face. |
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simulacra |
the facade that replaces the real to such an extent that the real or actual ceases to be. The optical illusion of the painting of the staircase. |
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Nihilism |
byproduct of cynicism. Doom, despair, meaninglessness, and hopelesness by prolonged oppression. |
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5 kinds of advocacy |
1. advocacy through reflexivity 2. advocacy through dialogue 3. Advocacy through critical literacy 4. Advocacy through listening 5. Advocacy through speaking up 6. advocacy through alliance building |
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Reddings features of organizations |
interdependence, differentiation of tasks, goal orientation, and control. |
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Polarization |
people become more partisan... Affect polarization is a marker of social identity. Ppl act based on their political identity |
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Political Comm. |
a contingent cause & effect in the pol. realm. |
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4 concerns of pol comm. |
1. Short Term Orientation 2. specific objectives 3. Mediated 4. Audience Centered |
